ASUS 9800 XT - Call of Duty - "extra textures"

[Tiny Tim]

Just wanted to share a problem I had and subsequent solution.

In Call of Duty, extra textures are only recommend to be played on a 256 mb
card, as on 128 mb cards there should be AGP-swapping. But when I played
with extra textures I got extreme stuttering on my 9800 XT, indicating that
there was a lot af AGP-swapping going on, despite having 256 mb of ram on my
card.

The solution to this was setting the AGP-texturing in the BIOS to 256 mb,
from 128 mb. Have had no problem with this setting with other games I tried
(UT2K3, Q3, RoN).

CoD now plays smoothly at 1280x1024/6xFSAA/16xAniso with all settings to
max.

Hope this helps others with the same problem.

My system:

ASUS P4PE
P4 3,06@3,5
512 mb Corsair 3200 DDR

Regards

 

[Andrew]

In Call of Duty, extra textures are only recommend to be played on a 256 mb
card, as on 128 mb cards there should be AGP-swapping. But when I played
with extra textures I got extreme stuttering on my 9800 XT, indicating that
there was a lot af AGP-swapping going on, despite having 256 mb of ram on my
card.

I think its 64MB cards what have problems. I run it full detail on my
128MB 9700 Pro and it works great.