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Thread: how to fetch free video memory ?

  1. 10-07-2005, 02:41 AM #1
    yapaa237
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    how to fetch free video memory ?

    Is there anyway to get the available video memory ?

    Or a test to find out how ?

    cheers.
  2. 10-07-2005, 01:29 PM #2
    SirKnight
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    Re: how to fetch free video memory ?

    I seem to remember quite a few discussions about this topic on this board. I don't rememeber how this was done. Try the search feature to see if you can find them.

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  3. 10-07-2005, 07:55 PM #3
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    Re: how to fetch free video memory ?

    Not with OpenGL and any solution would also be highly platform/OS dependent.

    You might find this interesting: http://works.no/stig/video-memory/
  4. 10-09-2005, 10:32 PM #4
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    Re: how to fetch free video memory ?

    On windows, the DX-based solution works nicely enough.
    For linux, there seems to be not a simple way. nVIDIA has a nice enough /proc/ entry but I don't know other cards. Maybe polling the whole buses would be an option but this is definetly overkill for me. I didn't look at that.
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