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What should the AGP aperture size be set to for a Radeon 8500LE 128MB video card to run at maximum efficiency, and with the best results? It's currently set at 64.
Thanks for the prompt response, Amourek. I recently upgraded my ram to 768MB from 384MB, so while setting it at 64 initially was the best choice, I'll set it at 128 now that I have sufficient RAM. Thanks again for the help.
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it should be set up to half of your ram. the max my mobo allows is 256, and i have 768mb.
this setting specifies how much system memory to use when your video card runs out of memory. i always have around 480mb free under alot of load, so setting it high for me doesn't matter
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AGP aperture size allows you to tell the system how much video RAM you have on your card, just as you tell the system in BIOS whether to use 4X/8X settings, etc. It doesn't have anything to do with system memory.
Set it according to your video card memory.
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There is alot of uninformed people in this forum.
Half you system memory is correct. And no it doesn't mean your video card memory. LOL. It refers on how much of your system memory to allocate to the video card.
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Sorry I was wrong ...
Funny, when other people give stupid advice, it's no big deal. If I make one incorrect statement (one that even made sense...) I'm made to be a idiot.
I'll leave all the post answering to you guys from now on, because eveyone know that I don't know $hit.
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UTLLAMA, don't be so hard on yourself. At least some of us make an effort. "He who makes no mistakes is not doing anything" Nobody knows it all. Cheers
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AGP aperture setting is how much system RAM is used to supplement the graphic card's memory for textures and other processes. The keyword is "supplement" Please read it carefully!! This setting does not increase your video RAM. If you have a 32 Meg Card and you set your aperture setting to 64 Meg, this doesn't mean that you will have a total of 96 Meg video RAM. Most BIOS default size is 64 Meg. The higher, the better, depending on the size of your system memory. But you have to be careful when setting this to a very large value. A lot of motherboard/video card incompatibilities are being reported lately when aperture is set to a very high value. Chaintech's TNT2 for example are known to crash at very high value and some has to be reset to 16 Meg in order to rectify the problem.
I myself read most of UTLLAMA's advices. They are very informative and even I with years of experience (good and bad) learned a lot from them. I'm looking forward to read more of your posts in the future. There are no experts here, experienced and knowledgeable as we are, we all learn from each other, otherwise I will not even read anybody's posts.
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Thanks guys...
I think I just need to unplug for a while. Spending too much time on computing.net starts to get to you after a while. That, combined with 16 days without a cigarette is driving me absolutely INSANE!
Good luck!
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