I need to go to 1600X1024 at 32bit color - How much RAM do I need to allocate to the video card?

[phoenixstar]

I have a Silicon Graphics 320 system that I am looking to run on a flat screen display at 1600X1024 resolution using True Color (32 bit) mode. Just need to know how much RAM I need to allocate to my video card to allow me to run at that color depth and resolution. Please help! Thanks!

 

[ApacheXMD]

don't know if this is right, but if it's 1600x1024 then there's 1638400 pixels. 32bits for each pixel, that's 52428800 bits.
divide by 8 gets you 6553600 bytes
divide by 1024 gets you 6400kilobytes
divide by 1024 gets you 6.25megabytes

-patchy

 

[BFG10K]

An 8 MB video card can manage 1600 x 1200 x 32 with room to spare.

And what do you mean by "allocate"?

 

[Rand]

<< An 8 MB video card can manage 1600 x 1200 x 32 with room to spare.

And what do you mean by "allocate"? >>



Perhaps he means he is using an onboard video card, and needs to know what is the minimum amount of system RAM he should allocate to be used by the integrated graphics.

BTW, ApacheXMD is correct