Excuse me for sounding ignorant.....

[The Prophet]

I was just wondering what the benifit of changing the aperture size of AGP in the bios is? I currently have it set at 64 ( seems standard ) but I have noticed that some are putting it up to 128 and 256. Could someone please explain? Are there any benifits to higher settings?
Thanks

[agallag]

The agp aperture setting tells the bios how much of the system ram to make available to the video card. Theoretically, it should be set to no more than half of your system ram, since you don't want all your ram being used for textures (that would cause your swap file to go nuts).

Some people have found that bumping it up solves some weird problems though. Who know why that helps...

[MM]

Half the RAM size is also not true... this is only good for _standard_ systems with 128MB. What in fact should be said is that it should be big enough to cache all the textures used by the game in a level. 64MB is more than enough for todays games.

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[billko]

Actually, the issue gets murkier, still. Some motherboards (I have one of them) will only use about half the memory that you specify in the aperture setting. I set mine to 128MB (the same as the total RAM I have) and it uses 70MB - at least, according to SANDRA.

The best thing to do is... experiment! I guess there's no real answer, except the one that is right for *you.*

Bill


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