WTF IS FAST WRITE AND HOW DO I ENABLE???

[Alex]

my msi k7master bios say that its enabled but sandra says its disabled... who's right?

and if sandra's right how do i enable for my radeon 64 vivo SE?

also what is fast write in the first place?! thx for any inputs....

 

[slag]

you can enable it with NVMAX. I have the same problem with a different motherboard. NVMAX lets you enable it and side band addressing.

NVMAX is a free program also.

 

[cubanx]

I was under the impression our P.O.S. Radeon 64 ViVo's wont support Fast Write

 

[slag]

hmm, yeah, NVMAX will not work .. i did not see that he had a radeon.. My apologies.. They do not support fast writes like the other gentleman said.

Joe

 

[Alex]

geez!! why the hell not?!?!

i curse at ati! :disgust:

 

[tazdevl]

franguinho, fast writes is a nVIDIA technology, ATI doesn't support it... for good reason. It has very little performance impact. Not worth cursing ATI for.

If you want to alter any setting... use powerstrip or a registry tweak you can download @ Rage3D.

 

[Rand]

Ati doesnt support it and the majority of nVidia board makers disable support for it.
It doesnt seem to do a damn thing for performance, and often times it can seriously impact stability.
it also has a very detrimental impact on the ability of the card to take overclocked AGP bus speeds.

Personally, I always disable it even if the hardware does support it.

 

[GenerationYscorpio]

enable fast write in the bios under chipset section

 

[BFG10K]

Usually you can enable it in your system BIOS.

Some hardware websites have claimed up to a 10% performance increase with it enabled but I've never seen any evidence to support these claims. I'd just leave it disabled as it may cause system instability.

 

[Alex]

<< If you want to alter any setting... use powerstrip or a registry tweak you can download @ Rage3D. >>



i tried using powestrip to overclock once and it wouldnt budge a single mhz up in anything without MAJOR instability :|

 

[tazdevl]

Your card might not be liking the overclock due to the speed of your AGP port. You might just have a card that hates being run faster if the AGP speed is out of spec.

The only other reasons I can think of are inadequate cooling in your case, your card, or both. Try messing with your AGP aperature size, disabling vcache, bios shadowing and dropping AGP down to 2X instead of 4X. Might also want to install the latest 4in1 drivers if you don't have them already (4.35 is out... plus there is a separate AGP driver download dated 11/23).

Go to rage3d, download the registry tweak and give it a try. Different than powerstrip.

I've messed around with fastwrites and have to say I saw maybe a 1-2 FPS increase. Not worth the instabilities (as Rand mentioned) it caused.

 

[Alex]

on the ati card fastwrites are out of the question for me

im just pissed off that my radeon SE wont overclock, period. :|