AGP port help

by **beanburito** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 3:30pm

i just got the albatron geforce fx 5700Q and my pc thinks its pluged in to the PCI card slot when its in a AGP 8X slot plz help me

by **tomdon** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 4:13pm

yeh I had that I think what I did was install the mainboard drivers that sorted it out.

by **beanburito** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 4:54pm

mainboard drivers as in bios update or mobo chipset?

by **beanburito** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 4:58pm

just fixed it by installing the chipset drivers

by **tomdon** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 6:34pm

by **sponge** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 10:13pm

Anyone have any pages on what that even means? I've seen that forever, but yet no noticable decrease in benchmarks compared to what I should be getting.

by **damian** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 10:23pm

It means your AGP bus is 8x slower than it should be (assuming you have an 8x card and mobo). Get some chipset drivers, it's worth it.

by **Kzinti** » Jun 30, 2004 @ 10:31pm

PCI is roughly the equivalent of AGP 1X. If you get "PCI" like in the picture, it means all transfers (mostly textures) are going through the slow PCI bus and not using the bandwidth available with AGP.

You really want to fix this. During development, I've seen Homeworld2 crawl using PCI and run quite well with AGP on the same system. It took us quite some time to figure out why the game was running fast on some systems and slow on others.

by **sponge** » Jul 1, 2004 @ 2:15am

Appears it was only my damn Dell that was running in PCI mode, with a Geforce3. Luckily that comp is long gone now. Both of my PCs report AGP4x and 8x as they should.

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