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cinan

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 251

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intel HD graphics cannot use more than 256M

Hello,
I want to play Bastion (http://chrome.supergiantgames.com/) in chromium browser on my laptop Acer TimelineX 5820TG. The system uses integrated intel HD graphics (i5 420m arrandale). When loading the game I got this error: Bastion requires a graphics card with at least 256MB of VRAM. I guess integrated GPU gets needed memory from RAM and I have plenty of free RAM (currently -/+ buffers/cache:        796MB       2836MB).
Here's lspci -vvv output:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 035d
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
	Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Region 2: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Region 4: I/O ports at 4050 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

Thanks for any help.

moetunes

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From: A comfortable couch

Registered: 2010-10-09

Posts: 1,033

Re: intel HD graphics cannot use more than 256M

If you have a look at man intel, there is a videoram option. You might have some luck using that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ somewhere.

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Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,607

Re: intel HD graphics cannot use more than 256M

What lspci says is not relevant. There are special tricks required to access more video ram. The graphics driver knows about them, lspci does not. The error message of the game is misleading (probably a generic message), the actual issue is something else.

Ptolom

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Registered: 2010-04-29

Posts: 6

Re: intel HD graphics cannot use more than 256M

Thank you Gusar in 2012. You've saved me a lot of time banging my head against lspci's output.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,601

Re: intel HD graphics cannot use more than 256M

I think this thread has run its course.  Closing.

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