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AGP 4x... maybe ?

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kh16

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Well, I have been having some trouble getting my system to perform the way that it should. The highest score in 3dmark2001 i can get is around 7000. I knew something was wrong because others with similar systems get 11000. I know that I shouldn't hold too much weight to 3dmark2001, but I have noticed poor gaming performance on this pc since i built it and i cannot figure out why., im really noticing it on new high graphic titles that are coming out. 7000 / 11000 is a huge difference.

I noticed in my Expertool video card program it says I am only running on AGP 2x. Is this the culprit?? I am using the latest Nvidia drivers (Tried many) and Latest via 4in1 drivers. (i think).

I have Rivatuner, but cannot find any way to increase it to 4x.

Could anybody help me out? Thanks.

--------------------System Specs--------------------

Athlon XP 1900+
512 DDR - Windows 2000
Gainward Geforce 4 Ti 4200
IWILL XP333-R Motherboard
Soundblaster Live Platinum 5.1
Logitech Z560 Speakers


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There is no setting in my bios to 'enable' 4x agp. The only setting having anything to do with agp is the aperture size or something like that. At the moment i have it set to 128 to match my video card. not sure what this setting is for. i used to have it on max 256. shrug.
 
The performance difference between 1x and 4x (or 8x for that matter) with a 128MB card on any current game = WAAAY too small to notice. Less than 1fps difference I'd wager.

With 128MB of memory on the card, there is no need to be swapping textures out to system RAM, so the card could be PCI and the difference would still be negligible.

AGP2x is NOT the bottleneck.
 
Have you tried a more thorough benchmark tool and benchmarked individual components to see where the bottleneck is?
 
What sort of tool should I test with?

I really cannot think of anything different in my system to cause such bad scores. The online comparisons show the other peoples machines, almost identical to mine getting 11000 scores. Everything compared exactly the same except agp 2x vs. 4x.
 
Hmmm, here's something to try. Look for a program called rivatuner. It allows you to change alot of registers for your card. Your mother board uses an Ali chipset. Inside rivatuner there's a register called EnableAliAGP. I think NVidia drivers initially disable this, but forcing it on fixes alot of problems. If you get Rivatuner, I think you can find this register by going to the 'Power User' tab, and then clicking on 'System Global'.

Another thing you may want to do is head over to amdmb.com and ask this question in their IWill forum. There's plenty of experts there with this board and they should be able to give you lots of advice.

Good luck.
 
I cannot find this setting in Rivatuner.

When i click on power user tab i go to a screen with the following things on it..

Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ System
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Diagnostic
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Power User
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ User Interface
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Detonator \ Global
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Detonator \ Color
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Detonator \ Overclocking
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Overclocking \ Global
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ Overclocking \ Current Device
Rivatuner 2.0 RC 11 \ RefreshOverrider
Windows Startup

I looked under them all and could not find any ALI setting.
 
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