Is it a good idea to increase or decrease the AGP aperture size?

[TazExprez]

I have a Geforce 2 Ultra, an Athlon XP 1900+, an Abit KR7A-RAID, and 1GB RAM. I wonder if I will get any improvement in games by increasing the aperture to the highest setting? Or will this actually decrease performance? What do you think is the ideal aperture size? My default size is 64MB and I left it there.

 

[HappyGamer2]

I am not sure but give it a try and run a few benchmarks. it often depends on the system, results will vary.
on my system I can only use 64 anything higher results in a dead black screen with my radeon card. with my voodoo5 it didn't matter at all

 

[MulLa]

Normally the default 64MB would do fine. Setting anything higher probably won't do you any good, setting it lower could hurt performance.

 

[Compellor]

Setting it to 128 MB may increase your performance but I wouldn't set it any higher than that.

 

[Mem]

I`ve 512mb of main ram and I`ve tried both 256mb and 128mb aperture size ,saw no difference in gaming or benchmarks so I use 128mb as my default.

 

[Yoshi]

With 64Mb of RAM on your video card I don't think you will notice a huge difference at any setting.

 

[BFG10K]

Leave it on 64 MB but move it to 128 MB if you have any problems.

 

[millsy]

The higher MB your card handles the lower the setting you should use so RAM is not being utilised for unecessary work.
Thats the theory anyway.

check out lostcircuits

 

[RobsTV]

384 meg of system memory in Epox 8kta33 Pro.
Had AGP aperture set to 64 with my 32meg GF2 GTS.
Upgraded to GF3 Ti200 with 64meg.
After running tests at both 64 and 128, changing AGP aperture to 128,
increased 3DMark 2001 by more than 700 points, or 10%!

AGP aperture at 64 scored 6143
AGP aperture at 128 scored 6907

So I guess the rule should be set it to 2x your video cards memory?

 

[millsy]

best thing to do is just benchmark different setups.

Whatever works hey