0 dedicated video RAM?

[Gabriel_Gr2]

hi !
I recently got a new laptop for the time being and I wanted to see if i can play games on it. I looked up on a site called "can you run it" for a few games but I soon discovered that all the games that I already play and run perfectly on this laptop aren't supposed to work here but they do. After looking at a few more things I noticed that I have 0 dedicated video RAM, Is there a way to increase it without getting a new graphics card? Iv'e been looking on this forums but I couldn't find any relevant answers.
I found a posts telling people about the problem that they have and not how to fix it so here is my graphic card: http://prntscr.com/9upyqb

If anyone can help me I would be so thankful! I don't know how this site works exactly so here is my email: <removed by mod>

Please try to answer without using all kinds of advanced terms and all that because I don't speak English fluently and I barely know anything about hardware, I'm a programmer but definitely not a tech guy.

 

[NightAntilli]

That means the GPU uses the system RAM for graphics. Dedicated video RAM is hardware, so, there is no 'fixing' this or increasing it. You can only increase/decrease the amount of system RAM that is used for the system itself and this naturally decreases/increases the one that is reserved for the graphics processor.

 

[getochkn]

Built on Intel graphics don't have dedicated graphics, they used shared memory from the rest of the system RAM. So that is why there is no dedicated RAM, there never will be. But it can have as much as it needs from shared RAM.

 

[Gabriel_Gr2]

That means the GPU uses the system RAM for graphics. Dedicated video RAM is hardware, so, there is no 'fixing' this or increasing it. You can only increase/decrease the amount of system RAM that is used for the system itself and this naturally decreases/increases the one that is reserved for the graphics processor.

So the only way to actually "fix" this is by buying a dedicated graphics card?

 

[Gabriel_Gr2]

So if a program requires let's say 128 mb of RAM does it mean I can run it because it "takes" the resources from somewhere else?

 

[Quixit]

That means the GPU uses the system RAM for graphics. Dedicated video RAM is hardware, so, there is no 'fixing' this or increasing it. You can only increase/decrease the amount of system RAM that is used for the system itself and this naturally decreases/increases the one that is reserved for the graphics processor.

So the only way to actually "fix" this is by buying a dedicated graphics card?

Sorta, that would be the only way to fix it. But you can't upgrade the graphics on 99% of laptops so you can't do that either. You would need to buy a laptop with dedicated graphics.

You can try running anything you like, but things that are GPU intensive won't run well. Nothing is going to not run at all, it's just going to run poorly.

 

[Gabriel_Gr2]

That means the GPU uses the system RAM for graphics. Dedicated video RAM is hardware, so, there is no 'fixing' this or increasing it. You can only increase/decrease the amount of system RAM that is used for the system itself and this naturally decreases/increases the one that is reserved for the graphics processor.

So the only way to actually "fix" this is by buying a dedicated graphics card?

Sorta, that would be the only way to fix it. But you can't upgrade the graphics on 99% of laptops so you can't do that either. You would need to buy a laptop with dedicated graphics.

You can try running anything you like, but things that are GPU intensive won't run well. Nothing is going to not run at all, it's just going to run poorly.

So if a program requires let's say 128 mb of RAM does it mean I can run it because it "takes" the resources from somewhere else?

 

[bignastyid]

That means the GPU uses the system RAM for graphics. Dedicated video RAM is hardware, so, there is no 'fixing' this or increasing it. You can only increase/decrease the amount of system RAM that is used for the system itself and this naturally decreases/increases the one that is reserved for the graphics processor.

So the only way to actually "fix" this is by buying a dedicated graphics card?

Depends on the laptop there are only a rare few that will allow you to add/replace a gpu(MXM) as the majority are soldered to the board. There are external gpu options but are just not feasible or worth it with most systems.