what is the point with.........

VooDoo · Post by **VooDoo** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:24 am

in the bios, there is a switch for the size of your

memory of your video card. is that just there

so people like me ask stupid questions about it?

me

Badmojo · Post by **Badmojo** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:29 am

thats not a setting to tell it what size memory the vid card has, its a cache setting

"silly rabit hax's is for kids"

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:10 pm

You're talking about AGP Aperature? Leave it set to the default (64Mb) or (if you have a 256Mb video card) you can TRY 128Mb, but if you have any mysterious problems set it back to 64Mb. Do not use anything higher or lower. Safest setting is 64Mb.

In real world gaming this setting is not important (except that many modern cards will crash if you use anything other than 64 or 128Mb).

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:36 pm

He could also be meaning the size of memory for an integrated solution in which how much would you want it to use of your system ram, naturally this would depend on how much you have.

VooDoo · Post by **VooDoo** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:34 pm

Originally posted by ZYFER
He could also be meaning the size of memory for an integrated solution in which how much would you want it to use of your system ram, naturally this would depend on how much you have.

no FP was right, thanx you for playin

me

marscheese · Post by **marscheese** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:36 pm

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
You're talking about AGP Aperature? Leave it set to the default (64Mb) or (if you have a 256Mb video card) you can TRY 128Mb, but if you have any mysterious problems set it back to 64Mb. Do not use anything higher or lower. Safest setting is 64Mb.

In real world gaming this setting is not important (except that many modern cards will crash if you use anything other than 64 or 128Mb).

what exactly does that do?

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:26 pm

Got mine set to 256.
I never understood what it did so I went with the idea the bigger the better....Never had a lick of problem.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:01 am

The AGP Aperture Size is the amount of system ram to be shared with the AGP interface. Setting this value too high can steal too much system memory from applications, which can easily offset the benefit of more video RAM. The default setting of 64MB is usually fine, although you can experiment with higher and lower values yourself.

There's absolutely no reason to set it higher than 128Mb with a modern video card.