>>> A 256MB VMEM video card [...] never will swap out if you run out of vmem

>> What will such card do instead when running out of VMEM?

> My PPC Bios card has only 128mb VMEM that MorphOS sees. When
> it runs out of vmem the OS stalls [...]. Never ran out with 256mb.

My question was what -- if not swapping out -- a 256 MiB card will do instead if it runs out of VMEM, because that's what you wrote. Or did you mean to say that a 256 MiB card never will swap out because it won't run out of VMEM (which is something else)?