Author Topic: Good news/bad news (Read 261 times)

qts · « **on:** September 26, 2002, 04:18:37 PM »

The good news is that I more than doubled my framerate according to Ctrl-I despite going from 1024x768 to 1600x1200. How come? I swapped my V5 5500 for a G4 4200. This is on a dual P3-1000.

The bad news #1 is that I don't know whether to believe the figures: AH thinks I have 256 MB of video memory; I actually have 128 MB.

The bad news #2 is that I'm off the flight deck until I have broadband connected, which should be next week. I've not been flying online for over a week. Sob, sniff.

bloom25 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2002, 04:39:29 PM »

AH reports your video memory in addition to your AGP aperature size. This is, in fact, the total amount of video memory available to AH.

qts · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2002, 05:06:55 PM »

Interesting: with my V5, AH reported 64 MB, the amount of memory on the card. Maybe it's a G4 thing.

bloom25 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2002, 05:39:35 PM »

That's because 3dfx never figured out (or never tried) to implement a true AGP interface. That means their cards ran in PCI mode.