4.50 VIA 4-in-1 Drivers pulled! Looks like they were a disaster...

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 1:32 am

http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview. ... adid=48011

Gand1 · Post by **Gand1** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 1:43 pm

Wow some people really get bent over some of the issues!

People need to relax and see what outside looks like every once in a while!

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:02 am

VIA APOLOGISES for releasing 4.50 4-in-1 drivers:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12951

We would like to sincerely apologize for any problems that people have experienced with the Hyperion 4in1 4.50 drivers.

These drivers were removed from the download page on VIA Arena and from the VIA Arena ftp, once we started receiving reports of the drivers causing problems. These drivers were officially tested and certified by Microsoft and VIA to work correctly and efficiently with Windows Operating systems that have Microsoft certified drivers installed.

After detailed investigation of the issues that have been reported, we have found that they only occur with systems configured with 1GB or more of memory and an ATI graphics card where the AGP aperture has been set above 32MB.

We are currently working on a new revision of the driver that changes the default size of the AGP aperture to 32MB.

Once again, we would like to offer our deepest apologies for this issue.

So what the hell does this mean? The default AGP aperature is SUPPOSED to be 64Mb, and most people set it higher...

osadeghi · Post by **osadeghi** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:58 am

I always had a problem with those drivers when i bought my gigabyte mobo...so i just kept them out of the picture and it worked beautifully!

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 12:29 am

Isn't the AGP Arperture only used for caching the ADDRESSES of video memory, not for actual textures?