6800 ultra....control panel says its on pci bus!!!??

[UBRNOOB3R]

i was looking at this http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t684.html .I have the same problem he does but i dont understand what he did to fix it if some one can PLEASE HELP i would greatly appreciate...im supposed to get 12K+ on the 3dmark yet i get 8500!!?

 

[UBRNOOB3R]

PLEASE HELP I BEG U GUYS!

 

[aka1nas]

Make sure you have chipset drivers installed.

 

[UBRNOOB3R]

i installed the latest VIA chipset driver.

 

[CKXP]

did you completely unistall your previous drivers? i assuming ATI from your sig.

 

[UBRNOOB3R]

yep i used driver cleaner pro. ive tried alot fo things

 

[Dkcode]

You need to intall the Via AGP driver. I belive its seperate from your Chipset drivers.

 

[Gstanfor]

Originally posted by: UBRNOOB3R
i installed the latest VIA chipset driver.

The VIA chipset IS your problem. If you take a look at the driver release notes, you will see the following on page 44:

VIA and ATI AGP 3.0 Chipsets
? Problem
The use of AGP-protocol cycles for coherent access to regular system
memory results in data corruption on systems based on VIA and ATI AGP
3.0-compatible chipsets.
AGP-protocol cycles to the AGP aperture are not affected.
? Workaround
To correct the data corruption problem, the Release 75 driver exclusively
uses PCI-protocol cycles to access regular system memory when it detects a
VIA or ATI AGP 3.0-compatible chipset.

Get a *REAL* chipset.

 

[postmortemIA]

Yeah, VIA always had some kind of problems. Although I think this is more case of the twisting-the-arm of competition.

 

[UBRNOOB3R]

so how can i fix this? what can i download?

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor

Originally posted by: UBRNOOB3R
i installed the latest VIA chipset driver.

The VIA chipset IS your problem. If you take a look at the driver release notes, you will see the following on page 44:

VIA and ATI AGP 3.0 Chipsets
? Problem
The use of AGP-protocol cycles for coherent access to regular system
memory results in data corruption on systems based on VIA and ATI AGP
3.0-compatible chipsets.
AGP-protocol cycles to the AGP aperture are not affected.
? Workaround
To correct the data corruption problem, the Release 75 driver exclusively
uses PCI-protocol cycles to access regular system memory when it detects a
VIA or ATI AGP 3.0-compatible chipset.

Get a *REAL* chipset.

Is this a problem on all VIA AGP 3.0 (8X) chipsets?

I have a AXP 2800+(T-bred 256k,GA-7VAXP (KT400) and it works perfectly with a 6800GT and the latest Forceware drivers.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: UBRNOOB3R
so how can i fix this? what can i download?

try an older (pre 75 series)forceware driver and see if it corrects the problem

 

[aka1nas]

If it is really capable of corrupting data, do you really want to re-enable it?

 

[Gstanfor]

You could try different hyperion drivers and hope/pray one of them works properly. You could also disable AGP 8x and fast writes, I don't think AGP 4x/2.0 motherboards have the problem.

You could also try rivatuner - it has various AGP vendor flags in it that you can try fiddling with.

The best solution though is simply a more capable motherboard NOT from VIA or ATi.