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How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
« 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.

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Re: How much Chip Ram is free with a graphics card
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2007, 12:07:32 AM »
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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.
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A1200 Power Tower, Blizzard 060 with SCSI, 196mb Ram, Mediator, Voodoo 5500, Spider USB, Hauppage TV, Soundblaster & Fast Ethernet cards, 2gb boot/program drive, 40gb data drive, 40x12x48 CDRW