Amiga.org

Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: ciVic on August 29, 2013, 10:47:38 PM

Title: Picasso96 eating up my fast men
Post by: ciVic on August 29, 2013, 10:47:38 PM

Hi all,

I recognized that my resolution of 1920x1080 32 bit needs 8 MB of fast mem. Wouldn't be a problem since my Radeon gives me additional 228 MB, but this RAM is very slow, so I would like to have as much onboard fast mem as possible (I have 16 MB only).

Switching to less colors does not help, at 8 bit colors my system freezes after showing a crappy screen.

Does someone know how to avoid this memory consumption or why 8 bit does not work? Thx!

Title: Re: Picasso96 eating up my fast men
Post by: fishy_fiz on August 30, 2013, 12:37:27 AM

How does the Radeon driver show fast ram?
Is it possible the fastram its using is actually just the framebuffer (8meg sounds about right size) and the 8meg its using is actually VRAM shown as fast and not "real" fast ram?
Other than that is there maybe an option (some sort of gui or tooltypes) as to which type of fast ram is used 1st for graphics?

Title: Re: Picasso96 eating up my fast men
Post by: ciVic on August 30, 2013, 06:24:58 PM

Unfortunately I don't know. Is there a tool that shows the memory usage of the system?