AGP Apeture size.

[liam]

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 ?

 

[maniac]

Should I notice any increase in speed changing the apature size ?

Set aparature size to 2 MB. It should be enough.

 

[Niclaas Grehling]

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

 

[Lol]

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

 

[SteveK]

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.

 

[Lee]

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.

 

[Wblane]

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)

 

[mhicaoidh]

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.

 

[SteveK]

Taking a moment's reflection, maniac mused:

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..

 

[mhicaoidh]

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

 

[SteveK]

Taking a moment's reflection, SteveK mused:

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

I read this but it is NOT the case at least here on my box! - maybe it is
valid with older types of mobos or agp drivers. Maybe Nvidia has an issue
like this (cant tell) but me currently using a:
GB 7VT600P-Rz mobo and a Radeon 9600 256MB card (4.11 cat driver) benchmarks
post exactly the same result - aperture size 2, 4MB or 128MB does not matter
what. No stability issues either - I kept the 2MB aperture for a couple of
days for testing the situation.

U can believe me this ;-)