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Changing dedicated memory from 64 MB to 124 MB???

Jun 2, 2009 3:04PM PDT

Heyyy so I'm wanting to play the Sims 3 on my laptop and all of my specs match up, just my memory card says it has 64 MB of dedicated memory when I need a minimum of 124 MB, but I know I have 1071 MB of total available graphics memory. I heard you can change your dedicated memory through BIOS, but I honestly have no idea how to do so or if it's safe for someone like me (basically technology UN-savvy) to do so. If you could tell me if it's kinda foolproof or if it's easy or anything, that would be amazing. Thank you so much in advance. Happy

Laptop specs (in case you want 'em)

Operating System: Windows Vista? Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 3006MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode
Harddrive free space: 117 GB

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 1065 MB
Dedicated Memory: 57 MB
Shared Memory: 1007 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 800 (32 bit) (60Hz)
driver Version: 7.15.0011.7713 (English)
DDI Version: 10

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