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Latency changes with Powerstrip???
I read in Powerstrips FAQ that you could change latencies with it and thought that I would make my GF2 Pro play ball and lower its clocks from 248 to 64 to make it a less buss hog!
I tried this but it don’t seem to work and PS erases the settings I try at start 
Has anyone successfully used this feature?
Please?
My graphics card and PCI audio card don't seem to get along. Can the PowerStrip help?
Maybe. Graphics cards can sometimes be too aggressive in holding the bus, causing problems for other bus-master PCI devices, most notably PCI sound cards. Although most PCI BIOSes have an option where you can specify a default PCI latency, many cards ignore or override this setting. The PowerStrip has an undocumented feature that allows you to specify the latency for each device on the PCI bus, individually. There aren't any hard and fast rules on appropriate values (a multiple of 8), but as a general guideline higher values yield better performance at the expense of other devices, while lower values are more appropriate to systems with multiple PCI cards. If you want to experiment with this feature, you'll need to manually edit your pstrip.ini file as there are no visual controls available. An example follows:
[Latency]
Enable=1
001812D2=80
In this example, 001812D2 is the PCI device (0018) and vendor (12D2) ID for a Riva128, which normally has a very high latency of 248, and which the PS reduces to 80. If you don't know the PCI device and vendor ID for a particular card, you can find out by checking the PS's hardware details screen, which is opened by clicking the [...] button on the Windows page of the PS Graphics System Information dialog box.
Maybe. Graphics cards can sometimes be too aggressive in holding the bus, causing problems for other bus-master PCI devices, most notably PCI sound cards. Although most PCI BIOSes have an option where you can specify a default PCI latency, many cards ignore or override this setting. The PowerStrip has an undocumented feature that allows you to specify the latency for each device on the PCI bus, individually. There aren't any hard and fast rules on appropriate values (a multiple of 8), but as a general guideline higher values yield better performance at the expense of other devices, while lower values are more appropriate to systems with multiple PCI cards. If you want to experiment with this feature, you'll need to manually edit your pstrip.ini file as there are no visual controls available. An example follows:
[Latency]
Enable=1
001812D2=80
In this example, 001812D2 is the PCI device (0018) and vendor (12D2) ID for a Riva128, which normally has a very high latency of 248, and which the PS reduces to 80. If you don't know the PCI device and vendor ID for a particular card, you can find out by checking the PS's hardware details screen, which is opened by clicking the [...] button on the Windows page of the PS Graphics System Information dialog box.
Has anyone successfully used this feature?
Please?
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