Radeon 8500

[THEMACER]

Wait a minute here i have a radeon 8500 that i flashed to mac. When i check in the ati control panel for the 8500 it says vram size 32mb?????? Wtf im supposto have 64mb? What going on here.

[THEMACER]

I took the card out to make sure it is a 8500 and it is everything is ok on the card what could be going wrong?

[DeltaMac]

what does Apple System Profiler tell you about video ram?

[Jason]

ive heard of this problem, someone needs to find a test to test how much ram the card uses... i have a feeling it will use the 64mb just atis drivers are preset to say 32mb... but i dunno O_O

i want to do this sometime as well, im just scared to hehe

[THEMACER]

You shouldnt be scared it was very easy. Trust me a 13 year old can even do it. About the system profiler i dont see where it would show my graphic card info?

[Jason]

Well in my apple system profiler (jag)

under devices it says PCI > Slot -1 (AGP)

click the arrow, it displays info, the last line of the info about the card says: Card (Video) Memory: 32mb

wonder how much the 9700 is gonna cost...

[THEMACER]

Ok when i had the problem of only 32mb showing up that was for os 9 and X but now i deleted everything and started fresh with 10.1.5 and 9.2 hopeing that is whould show up as 64mb. Under os 9 i did get 64mb under the system profiler check but under X since it the apple system profiler it dont show up i checked using the display app that came with my 8500 card and it shows up as 32mb. Ok under os 9 i get 64 but under os X get 32 wtf? I hope its the app that miss reades the card or something. SO to everone with 8500 do you have this problem.

[Jason]

have you tested the card out with any games or anything?

or even jag?