Do me a favor- test AGP ap size in bios | Forums

[Hawgdog]

Reboot, note in bios what you're using
run BD in whatever settings you use.
jot down.

Then hit the bios and reset the AGP aperture size to 32 and run BD again, jot down.

If you have time, do 256, 128 and 64 and 32, otherwise, just the extremes.
I've been all over ATI's site, all over Microsoft site and get differening info on the same website.

So, I ran some tests.
256:42/76
128:42/76
64:43/77
32:43/77
ok..common says use half of your card. MS says using slower system mem robs from card, use higher settings...
almost seems like the slower number give me higher score.
I'll try 4 later on

regards

[Hawgdog]

Reboot, note in bios what you're using
run BD in whatever settings you use.
jot down.

Then hit the bios and reset the AGP aperture size to 32 and run BD again, jot down.

If you have time, do 256, 128 and 64 and 32, otherwise, just the extremes.
I've been all over ATI's site, all over Microsoft site and get differening info on the same website.

So, I ran some tests.
256:42/76
128:42/76
64:43/77
32:43/77
ok..common says use half of your card. MS says using slower system mem robs from card, use higher settings...
almost seems like the slower number give me higher score.
I'll try 4 later on

regards

[FoolTrottel]

Lol, I did try this, and did not want to post my results... but as there's been no reply... here's mine...

<Fill in AGP aperture size as you wish>: 28/59

As in: no difference at all on a P4 2.4Ghz, 9800Pro system. Even got it down to 4!

[Weather_Man]

64 worked best on my 128mb 9800pro. Haven't tested on the 256mb card yet. SteveV. mentions that Il2/PF (ie., Oleg) recommends a 128 setting. That should be sufficient for any and all modern cards. Higher than that is certainly not necessary. The differences in settings is neglible at best, none at worst.

The theory with aperture goes, as I understand, the more video RAM you have, the lower the aperture requirement will be.

[Hawgdog]

I retested all...frankly the variation in results are all very close.
Went all the way down to 4.
16 was the only consistant "bad" setting.
so..what all that was hype about settings? LOL
I guess a more serious bench mark could tell.
Played online using 32 for an hour, went back into the bios, cranked up to 256 and back into the same server. Couldn't tell any difference...
well, thanks guys. I'm not sure it cleared up anything, more like muddled up. Here I thought this was a critical setting?

[Sergio_101]

Even with the two fastest AGP cards of
the time, the Nvidia BFG 6800ULTRA
and the ATI X850XT PE the 64 megs AGP Apeture
worked best.
I tried them all, 16 was slower.
32 thru 256 was about the same.
128 and 64 seemed to show no difference.
256 was less stable.
I used 64.

All testing was done on a A8V Deluxe mother board.

For 99% of you, use either 64 or 128.

Sergio

[Hawgdog]

Thanks for the input.

Wonder why I thought the AGP apeture size was so critical?
Well...off to tweak something else and reviel to the world an increase of 10fps in BD LOL

[R_Target]

I think aperture size was a much bigger deal when vid cards had a lot less onboard RAM.

[WTE_Galway]

If i understand correctly .. setting a high aperture actually steals ram from applications so you may get a drop in performance at high aperture settings if you are low in system ram