#Empire total war graphics stuck on medium driver

#Empire total war graphics stuck on medium driver

If you look in the control panel application (Options and Support, Information Center) you will see that looks something like the following :Īs you can see, the 64MB is simply the amount that is allocated to the graphics driver at boot for it to use for internal bookkeeping. If you are hitting issues with one of these titles, I recommend you contact the publisher/developer of the game and ask them for a patch OR pick a different game from a developer who implements graphics memory detection properly - for example FIFA2011 instead of PES. Grand Theft Auto IV attempts to be 'extra smart' and tries to dynamically restrict which textures it loads - resulting in corrruptions on the screen (missing objects). Some others will launch but will incorrectly restrict you to lower resolutions/settings (some of the Total War games - like Empire: Total War). Some of these apps will refuse to launch or will crash if run at moderate to high resolutions (for example Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, 2010, 2011).

Unfortunately, there are some games that incorrectly assume this 64MB is all of the graphics memory available (which would be ok on discrete graphics cards but is wrong on processor/integrated graphics). Correctly written games would check the Total Available VRAM and would work correctly.

On integrated graphics devices, the amount of 'dedicated VRAM' reported by the OS is really how much the driver takes at boot time for its internal purposes. In Windows 7, the HD3000 graphics requests memory from the operating system (up to 1.7GB on a 4GB RAM system) as it needs it.

In general both you and applications should ignore the reported dedicated VRAM - it isn't relevant for the HD3000 graphics.