2010-10-08, 13:09
hello all,
I have an ION system that is running xbmc on windows 7 64bit with 2gb ddr3 system ram. Some of the earlier posts on hardware configuration have recomended a gpu frame buffer of 512mb for playing smooth 1080p content.
Out of curiosity, I used Everest to check the frame buffer usage and to my surprise, in a half hour of typical usage (browsing titles, playing 1080p content) the usage never beyond 60 mb!
To test this i reset the buffer from 512mb to 128mb and as expected everything played as well as before. Can someone comment on this anomaly / myth? Are there potential situations/use cases were more frame buffer would be required?
I'm using the confluence skin and dxva2.
I have an ION system that is running xbmc on windows 7 64bit with 2gb ddr3 system ram. Some of the earlier posts on hardware configuration have recomended a gpu frame buffer of 512mb for playing smooth 1080p content.
Out of curiosity, I used Everest to check the frame buffer usage and to my surprise, in a half hour of typical usage (browsing titles, playing 1080p content) the usage never beyond 60 mb!
To test this i reset the buffer from 512mb to 128mb and as expected everything played as well as before. Can someone comment on this anomaly / myth? Are there potential situations/use cases were more frame buffer would be required?
I'm using the confluence skin and dxva2.