Hi everyone!
I just bought a Geforce2 MX (Asus 7100T) and I'm having some problems. I'm running a P3-450 at 558 (124 mhz fsb) and the new video card doesn't seem to handle the overclocked agp-bus (124*2/3=83) that comes with the 124-fsb on my BX-board (Abit BE6 TH-bios). Actually it doesn't even handle the overclocked agp-bus when i'm running a mere 112 mhz fsb. 110 is fine though. I get violent flashing of textures and instability in Q3 (even in the menu!) and also in 3dmark 2k. I have however figured out that the problems dissapear if I use powerstrip to force agp 1x. Then everything works great. I have run a number of benchmarks and now I really question the use of agp 2x. I then fiddled around with the agp apertude setting in my bios. This is what I came up with.
Quake 3 Normal 640x480x16:
agp apertude 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
fps 77.0 77.6 77.2 93.9 93.8 93.7 93.2
See the pattern? When I bump the apertude setting up to 32 mb the fps jumps from 77 to 93. At the same time the textures start to flash and Q3 crashes now and then. I first thought that the difference in performance was due to the motherboard going for agp 1x when the apertude is 16 or less and agp 2x when the apertude is 32 mb or more. I was wrong. Agp transfers was set to 2x all the time. I checked with Wcpuid. If I force agp tranfers to 1x with powerstrip I get almost the exact same numbers.
Does anybody know what the hell is happening here? I sure dont.
I could live with agp 1x, but I cannot live with Powerstrip. I don't want to start up that software and click "ok" in the non-registered version popup window every time I want to play a game. Are there any other ways to force 1x with nVidia reference 6.18? I have already tried using the forceagp1xon.reg from geforcefaq.com, but that has no effect.
My setup:
Abit BE6 (TH-bios)
P3-450 @ different speeds
192 mb PC133 cas3
Asus 7100T Geforce2 MX with nVidia 6.18
Windows 2000 (no SP1)
Regards
Rickard Andersson, Sweden
I just bought a Geforce2 MX (Asus 7100T) and I'm having some problems. I'm running a P3-450 at 558 (124 mhz fsb) and the new video card doesn't seem to handle the overclocked agp-bus (124*2/3=83) that comes with the 124-fsb on my BX-board (Abit BE6 TH-bios). Actually it doesn't even handle the overclocked agp-bus when i'm running a mere 112 mhz fsb. 110 is fine though. I get violent flashing of textures and instability in Q3 (even in the menu!) and also in 3dmark 2k. I have however figured out that the problems dissapear if I use powerstrip to force agp 1x. Then everything works great. I have run a number of benchmarks and now I really question the use of agp 2x. I then fiddled around with the agp apertude setting in my bios. This is what I came up with.
Quake 3 Normal 640x480x16:
agp apertude 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
fps 77.0 77.6 77.2 93.9 93.8 93.7 93.2
See the pattern? When I bump the apertude setting up to 32 mb the fps jumps from 77 to 93. At the same time the textures start to flash and Q3 crashes now and then. I first thought that the difference in performance was due to the motherboard going for agp 1x when the apertude is 16 or less and agp 2x when the apertude is 32 mb or more. I was wrong. Agp transfers was set to 2x all the time. I checked with Wcpuid. If I force agp tranfers to 1x with powerstrip I get almost the exact same numbers.
Does anybody know what the hell is happening here? I sure dont.
I could live with agp 1x, but I cannot live with Powerstrip. I don't want to start up that software and click "ok" in the non-registered version popup window every time I want to play a game. Are there any other ways to force 1x with nVidia reference 6.18? I have already tried using the forceagp1xon.reg from geforcefaq.com, but that has no effect.
My setup:
Abit BE6 (TH-bios)
P3-450 @ different speeds
192 mb PC133 cas3
Asus 7100T Geforce2 MX with nVidia 6.18
Windows 2000 (no SP1)
Regards
Rickard Andersson, Sweden