Help me: What's my video limit?

[meow2222]

It doesn't do that either, unless you have an odd
interpretation of what "486 style" is supposed to mean, that
has nothing in particular to do with it being PCI vs AGP.



Why would you use the basic VGA driver if the task itself
requires OS that has normal driver support?


Which brings up the question, of what usefullness is such a
comparison? One could run an AGP card without driver, even
without AGP chipset driver if they really wanted to
interfere with performance but was trying to deliberately
cripple performance, the best way to a valid comparion?

I thought all the above had been explained already.

No, it's a wildly inappropriate comparison that applies to
no normal use.

it _was_ normal use.


NT

 

[Alex]

Rarely is this true. In general video cards are backwards
compatible, an 8X card will run on a 4X slot (as his 1GHz
based system probably is), and will merely run at 4X instead
of 8X. When there are exceptions, they should be noted on
ATI's website.

I just checked my BIOS - I can set the AGP slot to 1x, 2x, or 4x (with
fast writes on or off). When I get the video card, obviously I'll set
it to 4x but do I turn the fast writes on or off? Does it matter?

 

[kony]

I just checked my BIOS - I can set the AGP slot to 1x, 2x, or 4x (with
fast writes on or off). When I get the video card, obviously I'll set
it to 4x but do I turn the fast writes on or off? Does it matter?

Turn it off to initially prove stability. There may be a
minor performance increase with it on, but not much... not
really enough to matter.