Geforce4 TI 4600 Only showing 64MB not 128

[compnurd0977]

In short i am on my 3rd card. The bios of the card says 128 windows says 64mb. Any Ideas i am starting to think it is something else not the card.

System

Athlon XP1800
Epox 8kha+
512DDR
WINXP SP1

 

[compnurd0977]

anyone?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

what brand and model is it? install latetest det drivers, see if there is an updated BIOS for it.

 

[bjc112]

Possibly a bad card?

Where are you getting the reading of only 64 megs from?

 

[BFG10K]

Any overclocks (especially FSB)?
Do you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers for your system?

 

[compnurd0977]

Okay, Updated everything. PNY Ti 4600. tried it in friends computer and it worked fine. 64mb is reading from windows.BIOS for card reports 128. Could it be the motherboard failing or the AGP slot?

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: compnurd0977
Okay, Updated everything. PNY Ti 4600. tried it in friends computer and it worked fine. 64mb is reading from windows.BIOS for card reports 128. Could it be the motherboard failing or the AGP slot?

So if you check under display props. your getting 64?

How does the card run under full stress... ?

Gotta be bad card...

 

[compnurd0977]

correct. umm card runs fine so far understressing. This is the 3rd card i have had. 1st one was reporting 64, 128 every now and then, second was shot from the beginning, this one seems more stable cept for the mem issue. thing is, why would the card bios state 128 then windows say 64. i am very good at this stuff cept this is the first time i have seen this.

 

[dszd0g]

You still haven't said where you are looking to get that 64MB number from. It is possible that whatever you are using to get that number from is reporting the wrong number.

What Detonator drivers are you running?

 

[Curley]

I've noticed that running desktop applications, the card will run only 64MB but when playing games or video playback the card will kick in the rest of the memory. This would happen with my Voodoo5 5500 Agp in Windows XP.

 

[compnurd0977]

it says 64 under display properties and under dxdiag

 

[compnurd0977]

here is some info i got



SiSoftware Sandra

Video Adapter
Model : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total Memory : 63MB (63MB Video) (128MB AGP)
Texture Memory : 191MB
Supports DIME Texturing : Yes
VGA Compatible : No

Current Video Mode
Video Mode : 1280x1024 16M+ TrueColour (32-bit)
Refresh Rate : 75Hz
Virtual Desktop Size : 1280x1024

Video Driver
Model ID : nv4_mini.sys
Version : 6.13.10.4103
Supported Windows Version : 4.00
Video Acceleration : Yes, All Functions
Screen Saver Active : Yes, 10 min timeout
Screen Saver Name : C:\WINDOWS\System32\logon.scr
Low Power Saving Active : Yes, 20 min timeout
Power Off Saving Active : Yes, 20 min timeout


Total Memory : 63MB (63MB Video) (128MB AGP) that confuses me here is something else


DirectDraw Device
Model : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total/Free Memory : 63MB / 58.3MB, 92%
Total/Free Video Memory : 63MB / 58.3MB, 92%
Total/Free AGP Memory : 128MB / 121.0MB, 95%
Total/Free Texture Memory : 191MB / 179.3MB, 94%
Max. Z-Buffer Depth : 24-bit
Max. Visible Overlays : 1
Min/Max Overlay Stretch : 0.0 / 20.0
Min/Max Live Video Stretch : 0.0 / 20.0
Min/Max Hardware Codec Stretch : 0.0 / 4095.0
Max/Current Video Ports : 1 / 0


hope this helps

 

[compnurd0977]

this is from 3dmark


Description: Primary Display Driver
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Name: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total Local Video Memory: 64 MB
Total Local Texture Memory: 64 MB
Total AGP Memory: 128 MB

 

[compnurd0977]

3dmark 2001se score 10740

 

[dszd0g]

Looks to me like the 128MB is being split into to 64MB blocks (video memory and texture memory), but they do show the total memory being 128MB. I wouldn't worry about it.

Your 3dmark score looks like what it should be for that system. A Radeon 9700 Pro would most likely raise you 2,000 points. A P4 2.8GHz would probably raise you 3-4,000 points depending on the system. You look good. Over 10,000 3dmarks is not a bad score. My secondary gaming computer scores about 6500 (My primary 13101).

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: compnurd0977
3dmark 2001se score 10740

that's all you need,

its working right if your scoring 10,000 k...

 

[compnurd0977]

Model : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total Memory : 63MB (63MB Video) (128MB AGP)
Texture Memory : 191MB


That is my system
my friend has the same exact system his said this


Model : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
Total Memory : 128MB (128MB Video) (128MB AGP)
Texture Memory : 191MB

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: compnurd0977
3dmark 2001se score 10740

that's all you need,

its working right if your scoring 10,000 k...

I wouldn't conclude everything being ok based on a 3dMark. The different ram sizes probably wouldn't make much of a difference in 3dMark anyway...

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: compnurd0977
3dmark 2001se score 10740

that's all you need,

its working right if your scoring 10,000 k...

10,000 k ?!?!?!?
that'd be 10,000,000!
Bajeezus!

 

[dszd0g]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

I wouldn't conclude everything being ok based on a 3dMark. The different ram sizes probably wouldn't make much of a difference in 3dMark anyway...

O.K., 11759 is the high 3dmark score with that configuration (not including motherboard). The top 5% or so of the scores generally all have their video cards overclocked. All the top scores are by the Asus A7V8X (KT400) and the MSI KT3 Ultra2 MS-6380E (KT333). Followed by the Epox EP-8K9A2+ at 11333 (KT400-8235) (Epox apparently is the one that doesn't label their brand, so this is a guess). Then followed by the Abit KR7A. 11203 is the first All stock (Asus A7V8X). Next comes the Asus A7V333 at 11167. Then the Gigabyte 7VRXP starts to come in at 11115. Abit KX7-333 starts at 11032. Finally, the first one that looks like the same motherboard, the Epox 8kha+ comes in at 10817 (10813 is the next, 10788, 10784).

The best score published with his exact configuration is 10817. His score is very close to that 10740.

I don't know of a good way to tell if 64MB or 128MB would make a difference in 3dmark. However, with how intense some of those games are I would tend to believe it would. I definitely wouldn't think his system would be performing towards the top of that configuration if it had half the video memory.

 

[hans007]

thats 64mb allocated of system ram, to be used by AGP for texture memory.

 

[compnurd0977]

Well here is the good news. i have a fairly new .net server so i popped the card in there. it works fine shows 128 and all good. so i know it is not the video card. before i put the card back in my system i moved the location of my promise controller and now on my last 5 reboots it is showing 128. so i am gonna give it a week and see if it does it again and if it does i am gonna RMA this board. thanks for your help everyone

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: compnurd0977
3dmark 2001se score 10740

that's all you need,

its working right if your scoring 10,000 k...

I wouldn't conclude everything being ok based on a 3dMark. The different ram sizes probably wouldn't make much of a difference in 3dMark anyway...

While that is true, it is a good way to "measure" performance,

And even though that 64 doesn't matter THAT much, he is def. reaping the benefits from having the x-tra 64.. .

His card is working fine, i think it is just being misread..