Update on 9700 issue and another problem with it

[Malladine]

Firstly, thanks to all who tried to help me in my previous thread.

I ended up installing the 9700 into my wife's mobo (K7S5A - worked fine) and putting her slightly faster gf2 mx400 (faster than my radeon 7000) into my M7MKE mobo. Lol, I guess she gets the bigger upgrade huh? 🙂

Anyway, the card worked fine in the K7S5A mb as I said. The system has an 850mhz athlon and 256mb of PC2100 RAM. From 2500 3dmarks with the gf2 to 6900 with the 9700. Not bad considering it's only probably running at half speed or thereabouts, looking at all the bottlenecks 😛

The problem is as follows: in 3dmark system info and MOHAA auto config the 9700 is being reported as having 128mb texture memory but only 64mb of AGP memory...what's that all about?? I altered the AGP aperture size to 128 in BIOS, but no change.

 

[Mem]

The problem is as follows: in 3dmark system info and MOHAA auto config the 9700 is being reported as having 128mb texture memory but only 64mb of AGP memory...what's that all about?? I altered the AGP aperture size to 128 in BIOS, but no change

To put in simply,if your PC needs more then 128mb of memory that`s available on your video card for textures or any other video memory related process,it can borrow it from the main memory so use the main system memory as extra memory for the video card,the AGP Aperture size you set in BIOS sets the amount available if and when it needs to use it.

 

[Malladine]

Thanks Mem. So I don't need to worry about MOHAA and such reporting the 9700 as having 64mb memory? That sounds like a separate issue...

 

[Mem]

What does your OS say? If you use WinXP look in System Information under "display" it will tell you the total amount of memory for your video card,if it reports 128mb then don`t worry about it.

 

[Malladine]

Win2k has the same info. I'll try that.