Hey guys,
I have an ATI Radeon X300 SE graphics card, with 128 mb video memory.
Everything was fine until a few months ago, when most my games stopped working.
I don't know much about graphic cards or anything like that, but it appears I dont have enough video memory anymore. Do you know what could have happened? I updated my drivers and stuff, I don't know how to fix this.

Hi and welcome to PC Help Forum
What makes you think this?
Have you received a message about it?

hi isis. Please try reinstalling your graphics card drivers, that could cause this problem.

I have reinstalled the card drivers, but there is no change.
I know it's the video memory because GTA Vice City tells me that I don't have 'enough available video memory'. Another game says that i need at least 12 MB of available video memory. I have taken a look at the DirectX Diagnostic Tool. First thing i noticed was that under the Display tab it says Approx. Total Memory : n/a'.
I then ran the Direct3D test (without knowing what it is) and it says the following: 'Test failed at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8007000e (out of memory)'.
I am really confused, but thanks for your help guys.

Ok, please download everest from my signature, and tell me what it says (if anything) under gpu

--------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc. ]------------------------------------------------------------



--------[ GPU ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ PCI Express x16: Asus EAX300SE ]

Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter Asus EAX300SE
GPU Code Name RV370
PCI Device 1002 / 5B60
Transistors 75 million
Process Technology 0.11u
Bus Type PCI Express x16 @ x16
Memory Size 128 MB
GPU Clock 324 MHz (original: 324 MHz)
RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz
Pixel Pipelines 4
TMU Per Pipeline 1
Vertex Shaders 2 (v2.0)
Pixel Shaders 1 (v2.0)
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v9.0
Pixel Fillrate 1296 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 1296 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties:
Bus Type DDR
Bus Width 64-bit
Real Clock 196 MHz (DDR) (original: 196 MHz)
Effective Clock 392 MHz
Bandwidth 3136 MB/s

Memory Timings:
CAS Latency (CL) 3T
RAS To CAS Delay (tRCD) 4T
RAS Precharge (tRP) 4T
RAS Active Time (tRAS) 8T
Row Refresh Cycle Time (tRFC) 14T
RAS To RAS Delay (tRRD) 2T
Write Recovery Time (tWR) 3T

Graphics Processor Manufacturer:
Company Name ATI Technologies Inc.
Product Information game.amd.com
Driver Download Drivers & Software

ATI GPU Registers:
ati-00F8 08000000
ati-0140 00000070
ati-0144 1A289111
ati-0148 C7FFC000
ati-0154 F0000000
ati-0158 31320032
ati-0178 00001017
ati-01C0 01FF0000
ati-4018 00010011
ati-CLKIND-0A 03301D04
ati-CLKIND-0B 00001A00
ati-CLKIND-0C 0400BC00
ati-CLKIND-0D 00807FFA
ati-CLKIND-0E 04002400
ati-CLKIND-0F 00000000
ati-CLKIND-12 00031212
ati-MCIND-6C 00000000


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Hope it helps....
This is probably irrelevant, but I found on this Ubuntu help forum a guy with a similar problem, I thought there was a chance this could apply to me aswell, this is one of the replies:

By default, Wine sets your video memory at 64 MB. As Tux0r said, you can make a regedit that will set it to the correct video memory ammount:

1. Run "regedit" in a terminal
2. go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine and create a new Key named "Direct3D"
3. In the new Direct3D key, create a new String Value named "VideoMemorySize"
4. Change the value of the String to your actual video memory size