aperature

[harley88]

mourning

sure do hope i am right place for a dummy question.

in my bios a got a deal called aperature size and it is set on 64mb
and i was wondering if i should maybe change it to 128mb.

i have a
P4C800E-Deluxe-
Intel P4 800 3.0 1mb cache
radeon 9800XT
1024 memory crucial
windows XP home
sound blaster audigy 2Z

if any of you fine fellows can help me out, i sure would appreciate it.

thanks much
harley

 

[HoLoCroN]

Is that in the AGP Settings?

If so, keep it to the manufacturer suggested setting.

 

[preet2u]

Agp aperture size defines the amount of RAM the agp can use in order for it to have more memory to process textures and other visual data.

If u have a lot of system memory (which u do ) then it's fine that u set it to 128 ... In most cases 64 should be more than sufficient though ..

For a more detailed analysis of this ..read this article by tweak3d

 

[Martin]

For the most part, set it to about 1/2 or 1/4 of your system RAM; 128 is optimal, >128 for machines with >=512 MB RAM, and 64 if you encounter serious issues such as stuttering.