onlyCOpunk
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Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: evolucion8
Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
Now lets just hope that ATI will take care of the rest of their card lines and finally add some flippin AGP support in their new drivers as well.
Why? AGP is dead and should remain in the grave.
Wow you really came through with this comment.
Anyways, has anyone found out if AGP support has been tended to with this driver release?
UPDATE: Installed 7.10 with AGP x1950gt and none of my DirectX games work. DAMN YOU ATI! Back to 7.7 for me.
Weird, they worked fine with my X1950XT AGP card, the 7.8 and 7.9 had issues with X1950 AGP based cards, setting the AGP Aperture Size to 256MB fixed that. And for the troll that said that AGP is dead, he seems to forgot that powerful AGP cards exists, X1950PRO/GT/XT, and now new HD cards like Radeon HD 2600PRO/XT etc. ATi is not like nVidia, ATi cards tends to age better and last longer, ATi simply like to support their customer no matter if it's AGP or PCIe, and both drivers are the same driver, the only thing that changes are some comunication protocols within the driver and the infamous SmartGart. ¬¬
The X1950s are decent cards, but hardly considered powerful. AGP cards today typically come out several months after their PCIe counterparts, at a higher price point and with lower performance their than PCIe counterparts. Very soon, the X1950s will be three generations behind. The 2600s aren't even worth a mention because they're too slow even now.
Calling AGP dead isn't being a troll, its facing a cold reality.
Why people like to cling to obsolete hardware for so long is beyond me. If you can't afford to upgrade, then just come out and say you can't afford it. Don't make up all manner of excuses why the antique is better and that the companies should support them until doomsday.
I'm not really clinging to obsolete hardware, and I can certainly afford a new computer. You want my excuse? I'm moving out of the country in T minus 3 months and buying a new laptop when I move. Thus I have 3 months left with my current build and my GF 6800 wasn't hacking it, so I bought an AGP x1950gt for $120 to last me the remaining time I have, and I have been very pleased with it. There was no point to building a new computer to use for 3 or 4 months.
And AGP is still very much alive, more people than you think still use AGP, and are happy with their PC's as I am. When I built this computer PCI-e was barely new, and the hardware that supported it was top tier and more money then I wanted to spend so I chose not to go with PCI-e.
Anyways, referring to the AGP arpeture size, I thought that it was supposed to be to 2x the size of the onboard memory of your GPU. So my card has 256 and I have it set to 512, should I lower it? Will it hinder performance? If it wont affect performance and let me play me use the latest drivers I will give it a shot.