Video Aparture setting in BIOS??

[TheNinja]

What does that mean? I have a PNY 128M 8X Ti4200, should the aparture setting be on 64 or 128 or other? If it makes a difference I have the AGP setting on 4X since it is max for the board. Thanks

 

[Electric Amish]

This is how much system RAM that can be set aside for access by the video card.

Usual setting is 50% of your system RAM.

amish

 

[Spicedaddy]

Basically, the more you have ram on your video card, the less you need the AGP Aperture size to be large. I have 128MB on my video card, so I just set it to 64MB. If you have less video ram, then set it higher...

In most cases it won't make any difference anyways.


50% of your system ram doesn't make much sense. If you have 128MB of video ram, and 1GB or system ram, you're gonna set it to 512MB?

 

[arcenite]

I believe the best performance setting is 128mb.

Bill

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy
Basically, the more you have ram on your video card, the less you need the AGP Aperture size to be large. I have 128MB on my video card, so I just set it to 64MB. If you have less video ram, then set it higher...

In most cases it won't make any difference anyways.


50% of your system ram doesn't make much sense. If you have 128MB of video ram, and 1GB or system ram, you're gonna set it to 512MB?

That's what the rule of thumb has always been.

Of course this rule was created in the days of 8-16-32mb of video ram.

Anyway you look at it now-a-days it probably doesn't really matter where you set it.

amish

 

[TheNinja]

Thanks for the input guys. I set it at 128 just b/c I have a 128MB card I thought, 128 seemed logical. (it was at 64 before and I had a 64MB card, makes sense to me). I have 512MB of DDR RAM, so I probably just leave it at 128. Thanks again for the input.

 

[Davegod]

sounds fine, just linking a good bios guide if you want definative answer or other bios questions http://www.rojakpot.com/

 

[Bovinicus]

128MB should be fine. It won't do anything unless you run out of onboard video memory anyway.

 

[maluckey]

I agree, and to add more info, I tested both settings five times each. (128mb and 256mb). 256mb was only slightly faster in UT2003, and only when the game cache was at 64mb or higher in the UT2003.ini file, and all the bells and whistles set at highest.