Only if you have an integrated graphics card that is built into your motherboard can it take advantage of your ram.
You can not convert the RAM that is on the PC to RAM for your graphics card. The only way to get RAM for a graphics card is to buy one that already has RAM on it. The graphics cards that have their own RAM are normally higher end ones that cost about $50-$70 for the cheapest ones.
Nope it doesn't matter what kind of ram you have in your graphics card as they are used for different things What does matter is what type of slots your computer has. Mine, for example, has slots only for PCI cards and I must buy PCI. You can find out what type of slots your computer has by calling TigerDirect. Start with what type of graphics card your computer can use.
no graphics cards have there own built in video ram The above answer is only partially correct. If a computer had onboard graphics, where there is no dedicated graphics card, then the graphics chip is on the motherboard itself. In this case, it will use the system RAM for memory. This can reduce the total amount available to the system. So if you have onboard graphics (no dedicated graphics card), then a dedicated GPU(graphics processing unit) could in fact increase available RAM. However, the difference is not likely to be large. RAM is cheap. Your best option is to buy more RAM for your system.
No, it's a type of RAM
You have insufficient RAM, even though you have a nice graphics card you need at least 1.0GB RAM or if you are running on Vista, you will need 2.0GB RAM.
Depends. If you have only 1GB RAM, the game will lag. If you have a lower end graphics card, it will hardly run or wont run at all. A better graphics card is best but more RAM will help.
Unless you are using onboard (Motherboard) graphics they are totally different
You cannot use normal computer RAM to be dedicated to graphics. The only way you would be able to get RAM that is completely dedicated to graphics would be to buy a video card that has RAM built into it.
Why in gods name would you!!
Yes it is.
Somewhat, it can affect the speed of loading times. Many graphics card have their own built in ram. I recently purchased one and it had 1 GIG of ram.
32-bit Windows has an address space of 4GB. Part of that is used by system BIOSes and graphics memory. With a 256MB graphics card about 3.3-3.5GB of RAM can be addressed and used, assuming you have 4GB fitted. If you fit a graphics card with 1GB of memory only about 2.6-2.8GB of the RAM would be addressable and usable. See the related link for further information.