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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: wurzel on March 06, 2007, 11:00:43 PM

Title: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: wurzel on March 06, 2007, 11:00:43 PM: Hi all,

Having just towerised my a1200 and using a Mediator, I'm curious as to how much Chip ram is free. I seem to average 1,600,000 but looking at the A1200 desktop pics, people seem to have around 1,900,000. I'm wondering how?

I do have STFax & IBrowse running, although Iconified, plus the usual WB stuff.

Are ther some programs I can use to maximise my Chip Ram? Is it needed? I actually have 196mb Fast Ram, although when using IB, this goes down to 156mb regularly. Even when running PGS as well, I still have plenty of free RAm, but just wondering how it all works.

Thanks
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: amigakit on March 06, 2007, 11:33:50 PM: With IBrowse, EasyNet and Pagestream running here on 3.9, I have 1,855,504 chip left and 209,318,856 fast

Have a look at your Datatypes to see what is eating into your chip mem.
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: LoadWB on March 06, 2007, 11:48:52 PM: I generally float around 1.8~1.9MB free ChipRAM, A4000D w/Picasso IV. I'm using FBlit and (without looking) at least one other setting to move graphics stuff to FastRAM.
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: wurzel on March 07, 2007, 12:07:32 AM: Quote

amigakit wrote:
With IBrowse, EasyNet and Pagestream running here on 3.9, I have 1,855,504 chip left and 209,318,856 fast

Have a look at your Datatypes to see what is eating into your chip mem.

Hi Amigakit, & thanks for your recent help regarding A2000 keyboard adapter :-)

How can I tell which Datatypes are using my Chipram?

Thanks.
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: AMC258 on March 07, 2007, 12:13:42 AM: I am currently at 1560368, and generally around that. I never really pay much attention except for one time that I forgot I had taken the 2nd 1M out of my A3000! For some reason, when I had only 1M total, I was getting *dangerously* low. I do run low occasionally when I have too many large drawers open in Workbench.
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: karel on March 07, 2007, 12:27:49 AM: Ihave 1.9+mb free.
icon in fastram
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: TiredOLife on March 07, 2007, 12:42:47 AM: Currently at 1,769,056.
That's usual for me.
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: ChaosLord on March 07, 2007, 01:44:58 AM: Step 1: Quit Ibrowse and STfax
Did your chipram change?

Step 2: Quit any other programs you have running, 1 at at time until you figure out which one of them is eating your chipram.

Step 3: Remember that you probably have some progs in your WBstartup dir. Quit those until your chipram goes up.

Eventually you will figure out which program is guilty then we can work on a good solution.

Amiga Rulez Forever!
Title: Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
Post by: pan1k on March 07, 2007, 02:50:54 AM: I've got 1.93mb of chipram free. I don't load a lot of crap and I use a pattern on my workbench and make sure the wb is 8 bit.