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MacAir23

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Jul 24, 2012
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I was looking at system info on my Macbook Air and it says "Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB". Does the 512 MB part mean that it will only take 512 MB of ram max? If so is there a way to have it take more?
 

jmfel1926

macrumors member
Jun 22, 2012
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yes i think it is the most it can get from ram . this is the shared max memory. i don't think you can do something with that . it is fixed
 

MacAir23

macrumors newbie
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Jul 24, 2012
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I doubt it but there is no hack or something you can do that apple doesn't approve of?
 

marioman38

macrumors 6502a
Aug 8, 2006
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Long Beach, CA
Wouldn't matter anyways, vRAM is NOT the bottleneck, processing speed is. What could you possibly do on an Air that needs more than 512mb vram?
 

MacAir23

macrumors newbie
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Jul 24, 2012
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I was just hoping to run Guild Wars 2 smoothly without a low frame rate. Since I get an employee discount I have the air upgraded to the max

Processor 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB
 

kyjaotkb

macrumors 6502a
Nov 20, 2009
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London, UK
I was just hoping to run Guild Wars 2 smoothly without a low frame rate. Since I get an employee discount I have the air upgraded to the max

Processor 2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB

OSX always shows max available VRAM. On Windws, it all depends on the driver. My old PC laptop showed 1256 MB (256 dedicated + 1000 max shared), now under Bootcamp windows shows 64MB VRAM (min available for Windows) whereas my HD3000 4GB MBA goes up to 384MB.
 
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