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AGP Apeture size.
Been playing Half-life 2 (stress test 63fps) on my AMD 2100+, 768mb,
sapphire 9600 pro 128meg and apart from the stuttering things have been fine. But I realised this morning I have never changed the Bios (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) setting from my old card 8500AIW 64meg to 128meg... Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? |
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Potential newsgroup troll known as liam typed:
Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? Set aparature size to 2 MB. It should be enough. -- maniac/at/tweak.pl |
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liam schrieb:
Been playing Half-life 2 (stress test 63fps) on my AMD 2100+, 768mb, sapphire 9600 pro 128meg and apart from the stuttering things have been fine. But I realised this morning I have never changed the Bios (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) setting from my old card 8500AIW 64meg to 128meg... Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? no |
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"liam" wrote in message ... Been playing Half-life 2 (stress test 63fps) on my AMD 2100+, 768mb, sapphire 9600 pro 128meg and apart from the stuttering things have been fine. But I realised this morning I have never changed the Bios (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) setting from my old card 8500AIW 64meg to 128meg... Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? No. http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=9 |
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"liam" wrote in message
Been playing Half-life 2 (stress test 63fps) on my AMD 2100+, 768mb, sapphire 9600 pro 128meg and apart from the stuttering things have been fine. But I realised this morning I have never changed the Bios (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) setting from my old card 8500AIW 64meg to 128meg... Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? The Aperture size is only used if the video (onboard) ram space is too small for the running application. Since u have 128MB onboard Aperture will most likely never be used. Leave the default 128MB as is. |
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the difference between 64mb and 128mb is very slight nothing really at all
infact setting it to 128mb could make your 3d gaming unstable, i suggest set to 128mb and see how it goes if you start getting lockups go back down to 64mb. On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:37:54 +0000 (UTC), "liam" wrote: :Been playing Half-life 2 (stress test 63fps) on my AMD 2100+, 768mb, :sapphire 9600 pro 128meg and apart from the stuttering things have been :fine. :But I realised this morning I have never changed the Bios (Asus :A7N8X-Deluxe) setting from my old card 8500AIW 64meg to 128meg... :Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? : : ----- Lee. |
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Normally I would say no. But with windows 98SE I noticed a huge difference in
two games when going from 128MB to 256MB aperture size. This change was the difference between playable and unplayable with certain maps in Battlefield 1942 and BloodRayne. I don't know if this applies to XP though. Been playing Half-life 2 (stress test 63fps) on my AMD 2100+, 768mb, sapphire 9600 pro 128meg and apart from the stuttering things have been fine. But I realised this morning I have never changed the Bios (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) setting from my old card 8500AIW 64meg to 128meg... Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ? -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) |
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Taking a moment's reflection, maniac mused:
| | Set aparature size to 2 MB. It should be enough. If possible, this would disable APG function, and adversely affect performance. |
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"mhicaoidh" wrote in message
news:EHHqd.484619$D%.227900@attbi_s51 Taking a moment's reflection, maniac mused: Set aparature size to 2 MB. It should be enough. If possible, this would disable APG function, and adversely affect performance. Not necessarily if you video card has 128MB+ ram. The agp driver is filling up the video card's ram first before starting to employ slower system ram provided the software application has been written properly. I have done some benchmarks with 2MB aperture and the scores stayed exactly same as with 128Mb aperture (since the aperture never has been used). However, it does neither harm nor impact performance leaving the aperture at default 128MB. Since we got plenty ram on today's video cards I guess aperture size settings will be removed from bios in the near future. It's already a dinosaur of the past.. |
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Taking a moment's reflection, SteveK mused:
| | Not necessarily if you video card has 128MB+ ram. A setting of 4 MB (or lower, as the person recommended a setting of 2 MB, though 4 MB is the minimum generally) effectively disables the AGP Bus. See ... http://www.inno3d.com/support/q_a.html Q4 |
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