Recently bought a 20" LCD screen. Had to get a card to run it. Did this, (ATI RADEON 7000 MAC 64MB) and got the ATI driver update installer, updated my system to 9.2.1 and then 9.2.2 and the monitor fired up at last on my 7600 Mac (I run a VGA CRT and the LCD on DVI on same card, extended desktop). Looks brilliant. And now i can scroll super fast compared to the old Twin turbos I had...
But, and this is a killer for me as I work on this machine, I get a fair few "out of memory" notices now (in spite of 832 real ram that passes all tests I know and has been so reliable for so long - VM on or off is not anything relevant). In fact I am reminded of all the symptoms I used to have before seriously improving the ram years back. I cannot have Illustrator and Photoshop and stuff open *and* do serious work any more. I need to talk to someone who has 9.2.1 or 9.2.2 who also has a fair amount of memory but which works fine. Be good if they also have an ATI card.
Got to sort out all the extensions I probably don't need (lots are new to me since the OS upgrade and the ATI upgrade drivers...). Ideas folks?
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First off David I do not have 9.2 at all but something like that never stopped me from having an opinion before why should I let it now ?
I am not at all sure if it will help but did you hit the CUDA? It may help . The machine obviously recognizes the card but may still be expecting the TT 128 and be confused and allocating RAM for it. Do you have a utility that can report tasks?
What does " about this computer " say about RAM usage?
When a graphics program is open what does it report.? How much RAM is in use with just the OS going?
Consider your screen sizes. Would the next step down help?
Could you have bumped a RAM DIMM? I assume the full 832 still shows.
Can you cut back on a screen refresh setting. Or change the frequency of the display ? Experimentation may find a good compromise.
This is an interesting problem. It's probably something simple.
-- Adrian
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