This is really a Microsoft limitation on how VRAM is reported to the user. (This was never messaged to customers very well.)Įssentially, our video card has as much off-screen memory as the user sets in the UI (ie the virtual graphics hardware can use all of it) but the Microsoft Runtime is only allowed to address 128MB of it at at time (and doesn't know that we're using the rest of the memory behind it's back). However, the number reported in the dxdiag tool, is the size of the PCI bar, which is capped at 128 MB. AMD A8-7600 w/ 16 GB RAM, SSD+HDD, Radeon R7, Windows 10 desktop PC, LCD Monitor. Silent 32-Bit HP Computer with Parallel Port, Serial Port, Windows XP PRO SP3. The UI setting does control the amount of host resources that we will allow the guest to use, and the guest can use up to that amount. Tiny Dell Windows XP Pro SP3 Gaming PC 1.6GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, 64GB. Windows XP SP3 ISO got released in 2008 and it was released for public usage from that day 1. And this series is the successor operating system of Windows 2000 and even the Windows Me as well. Windows XP is a major release of Microsofts Windows NT operating system.It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. There are many things that are called 'VRAM' in our stack, as well as Microsoft's. Windows XP SP3 is an operating system that is produced and manufactured by Microsoft. I will try to reproduce question#1.įor Question 3, following is the answer from dev team:

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