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Re: Does pci gfx card mem really increase Fast Mem ???
« on: November 25, 2003, 02:22:41 PM »
Well you will save RAM, by having bitmaps stored in the GFX-card, but
since you are updateing fom pure AGAmost of the saved mem would
be Chip. Normally you will allways have ~1.9MB Chip free, and maybe
even a few bytes of Fast (dependeing on what patches you ran on AGA,
and what settings you use for the Voodoo).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
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Re: Does pci gfx card mem really increase Fast Mem ???
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2003, 07:32:13 PM »
Yes you are wrong :-o

There are3 kinds of RAM in your system (only 2 atm to be precise).

1. FastMem: Those 16MB on the mobo
2. ChipMem: 2MB also on the mobo, much slower in access, but the only
kind of RAM that the AGA-chips can use (listed as GFX-Mem in the title-bar).
3. RTG-Mem: Everything on the GFX-card(won't be directly listed anywhere).

Now what you will want is this:

Redirect as much as possible from Chip to Fast as this is about 6 times faster.
Patches likes FastBlit will do that.

Once you get the Voodoo you might want to move any GFX-related data into
the RAM on the card freeing much-needed FastMem. That should happen on itself,
some GFXApps may have an option where you can select the type of mem to be
used for buffers and so.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else