Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity › Forums › Apple Motion › how do i know vram is working?

  • 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
  • 3 Replies

  • 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.

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Motion Training DVD

    Check out my Motion Tutorials

  • 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.

  • 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

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy