AGP Aperture?

[Caprice]

Hi all...just wondering what increasing ur
AGP Aperture in the BIOS does?...I increased
mine so I could run 3DMark 2000 64MB texture
rendering test...its currently at 128.....
should I increase it?...if so why and what
difference would it make?...thanx in advance!
Caprice

[Kii]

I think it specifies the amount of system memory that you will allow your AGP card to use..

[traverso]

Bonjour

I asked this question one time and this the response of Jamrock

Jammrock
MURCer <<...>> posted 28 December 1999
The AGP aperture size tells the computer how much system memory can be used
for graphics swapping. For example, if you have a 16 MB video card and play
a game that uses 18 MB of texture information, the video card will store the
extra texture information in system RAM and use it like a really slow video
RAM.
The Aperature size has become a rather mute point since it is very rare that
any game goes to system memory for texture swaps, because most video cards
have more than enough RAM to handle any current game.
Set the Aperture size to 1/2 system RAM. If you have video troubles, set it
to full RAM size. Some people set the Aperture size to 256 MB, even though
they don't have that much RAM, to fix some bugs that have creeped up. So
basically, it's not that important.
Jammrock