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nVidia 8600M GT more RAM?

I have a MacBook Pro (~2008) 2.4GHz with 4GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM and the nVidia 8600M GT video chip with 256MB vRAM. I am working with Adobe Photoshop CS6 and continually get a message that my 3D capabilities are disabled due to lack of vRAM available (need 512MB min) ...


Question: Is there a way to manaually provision more RAM to the video card to up it to 512 MB?


Thanks.

Logic Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Aug 30, 2013 10:57 AM

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Posted on Aug 30, 2013 11:18 AM

The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M is a dedicated graphic card, so you can't modify its VRAM because it's not being shared with your main memory. In Macs with integrated cards, you can add more VRAM by installing more RAM. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3246

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