Regardless as to whether that suggestion was valid, to Holygoalie, I would really advocate against any BIOS changes, if what I've suggested works, thats really all you need, its an intermittent problem with a single game, that'd be like using a sledgehammer to hang up a picture. It assigns RAM to either system or video requirements as the need demands, so there should be no BIOS settings to increase that to a suitable minimum. In this situation, the way this laptop handles it (and all others like it, afaik) is on an as-needed basis. I presume you mean to set a minimum amount of VRAM allocated at any one time from the systme memory, which I would highly doubt would be a BIOS setting, it would be firmware or even hardcoded. Theres no such thing as "increasing dedicated memory" through the BIOS, you can only increase dedicated memory by physically adding RAM (which is impossible to do with graphics cards in general anyway). Originally posted by Ϯ Tut Tut Ϯ:You could try changing the bios settings for your video chip and give it more dedicated memory. Hope the above information clarifies the situation, just experiment with it, avoid setting it too high (You can try 0, though I don't know what that would do) as that might cause a system crash (I wouldn't go above 1/4 of your system's total RAM). Laptops should never really be used for gaming, but ones with combined chipsets (HD 4000 chipsets are contained on the CPU thanks to new advances in migrations from the northbridge) usually have specific issues with OpenGL and DirectX applications that are often random and difficult to solve. Ordinarily, a graphics card would have its own dedicated memory, but in laptops with onboard graphics, that is not always the case, and in your case it has to share RAM with the system (You might be short on RAM, which would explain why the full version of the game failed to initialise, the demo version would likely have lower minimum requirements for the application to start). I believe your laptop probably has an inherent manufacturers issue with allocating RAM to video purposes. Nothing harmful at all in doing that, it just basically forces the system to run allocate a minimum amount of video ram for that application.
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