Running Game Software on SunPCi

This procedure applies only if you are using an external VGA monitor with your SunPCi card. For more information on how to install and configure an external VGA monitor, refer to Chapter 4, Configuring Peripheral Devices.

This section is designed to help you fine-tune game performance on SunPCi. Although the default VGA memory setting of 1 Mbyte on your SunPCi card should provide enough VGA memory for most games, you may want to increase the amount of VGA memory for more graphics-intensive games.

Remember that increasing your video memory decreases the amount of available system memory.

To increase the amount of VGA memory available to SunPCi, perform the following procedure:

1. Start up SunPCi. If SunPCi is already running, exit Windows and then choose Reset PC from the File menu.

   You will see the startup screen and the RAM check routine.

2. While the RAM check routine is proceeding, press the Del (Delete) key on your keyboard.

   The startup routine is stopped and the Setup screen is displayed.

3. Select Chipset Features Setup.

4. Change the VGA Shared Memory Size parameter to a larger value.

   The default is 1 Mbyte. This parameter accepts values between 0.5 Mbytes and 4 Mbytes in increments of .5 Mbytes.

5. Exit Setup.

   The SunPCi startup routine starts over, using your new VGA memory settings.