Memory confusion on GTX 285

[MagR]

Hi

I'm confused about the memory on my graphics card and could use some advice. I have a Pallit 2GB Geforce GTX 285. The GPU-Z utility shows the memory as 2048MB which is what I would expect.

However I've also run dxdiag on Windows 7 and it shows the approx memory as 748MB which is way too low.

I've searched some forums and some posts suggest you have to divide this by 3 for GDDR3 memory to get the right figure. This would give 249MB effective memory on a 2GB card! If this post is correct it should be showing as 6144MB.

I also read somewhere else that dxdiag does not count memory in use but surely it doesn't take this much to run the desktop?

I'm confused and am worried that something is wrong with my graphics card.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Mag

[nibbler]

I reckon multiply by three seems more plausible (not that I know anything about this)

[Blackmage]

What OS are you using? How much system ram?