• Apple Motion

  how do i know vram is working?

  Posted by Mpigott on February 8, 2010 at 5:27 pm

  I have a G5 Dually 2.5Ghz with the 9800 as so:
  ATI Radeon 9800 XT:

  Chipset Model: ATY,R360
  Type: Display
  Bus: AGP
  Slot: SLOT-1
  VRAM (Total): 256 MB
  Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
  Device ID: 0x4e48
  Revision ID: 0x0000
  ROM Revision: 113-A14404-123
  Displays:
  MW 30LZ11:
  Resolution: 1280 x 960 @ 75 Hz
  Depth: 32-bit Color
  Core Image: Supported
  Mirror: Off
  Online: Yes
  Quartz Extreme: Supported
  Rotation: Supported
  Cinema HD Display:
  Display Type: LCD
  Resolution: 1920 x 1200
  Depth: 32-bit Color
  Core Image: Supported
  Main Display: Yes
  Mirror: Off
  Online: Yes
  Quartz Extreme: Supported
  Rotation: Supported

  I don’t see anywhere on system profiler that the vram is enabled?
  How can I know? Right now Motion 3 is a dog even on simple scenes.

  Thanks

  Zak Peric replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Stephen Smith

  February 16, 2010 at 9:00 pm

  In the System Profiler under Hardware click on Memory. It will tell you wether your slots are empty or not. If empty they where installed wrong or you have the wrong kind of ram.

  Also, you can go to your Applications folder, Utilities, Activity Monitor.app. This will show you how much ram you are using at a time.

  Hope this helps.

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  Mpigott

  February 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm

  Hi! What I meant, is how do I know the RAM inside the video card is
  working. I am not concerned with the system RAM but whether the 9800’s
  video ram is active. Even simple scenes are very slow in Motion 3.1

  In the System Profiler under Hardware click on Memory. It will tell you wether your slots are empty or not. If empty they where installed wrong or you have the wrong kind of ram.

  Also, you can go to your Applications folder, Utilities, Activity Monitor.app. This will show you how much ram you are using at a time.

  Hope this helps.
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  Zak Peric

  February 17, 2010 at 2:33 pm

  Hi There,

  if your RAM on your Video Card is not working you would not be able to start your computer. If you can start your computer then you have different type of problem I should imagine.
  Reset PRAM on your mac, trash the Motion preferences, see if this helps.
  See this link it might help you.
  https://homepage.mac.com/frakes/MOSXPT/content/keyboard.html

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