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The most likely answer to your questions, is the video card drivers you are
using.  I know the figure is 62 MB....for drivers (Nvidia leaked-beta
reference drivers) higher than 7.00.  I'm not sure if that is 100%
true...but that would be the first place to check.  It is also possible this
has something to do with the AGP Aperture setting in the BIOS.  I'm just not
technically "fragged" enough to know for sure....but could "test" the theory
easily by changing the AGP Aperture setting.  I do know, you can't set it
higher than 128 MB (on a GeForce 2 ULTRA) without the whole system crashing.
Evidently....the chipset drivers didn't anticipate all of us running tons of
RAM...as most are.

Tom

: I don't understand
: 'Use up to [62] MB of system memory for textures in PCI mode'.
: I have  Gforce 2 Hercules 64mb card but can only choose upto 30mb for
: textures in the options. What is wrong, or have I misunderstood? (I have
an
: Athlon 900 with 256mb ram).

That setting only applies to people that have PCI cards or AGP cards running
in pci compatibility mode. If you are using a AGP card that is *not* running
in PCI compatibility mode, this setting will have no effect. I doubt your
Hercules is running in compatibility mode, so you can just ignore it.

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You don't have your video card installed or configured properly.......

Go through this check list....then try it again:

*********GeForce 2 (MX, GTS, ULTRA) Tweaks and Settings for
N4***********

       **Desktop Color:  Set to 16-bit color for N4 and all games.

       **DirectX: Make sure you are using a DX 8.0 compatible driver
(Nvidia
Ref drivers versions 7.0 or higher)

       **For N4:  Run OpenGL (not D3D) in "XXXX"x16 (you must use a
screen
res compatible with your CPU speed and ram).

       ** Monitor:  Make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers
for
your monitor...DO NOT USE "Plug and Play" Monitor drivers!  Set your
refresh
rate at the highest setting you are allowed for your monitor at the
specific
screen res you want to run N4 at.

       **Advanced Settings Tab For OpenGL:
           In The Scroll Down Box:
                 Enable Buffer Region Extension (checked)
                Allow the dual planes extension to us local video
memory
(checked)
                Use fast linear-mipmap-linear filtering (checked)
                ****all others are unchecked****

            Default Color Depth for Textures:  Always Use 16 bpp
            Buffer Flipping Mode:  Use page flip
            Vertical sync: Always off
            Full Scene Antialiasing Method: Always off

            Use up to [62] MB of system memory for textures in PCI
mode

    **Mother Board BIOS Settings:
            Video BIOS Shadow = "Disabled"
            Video BIOS Cache = "Disabled"
            Palette Snoop = "Disabled"
            AGP Turbo (or x4) = "Enabled" (if your mobo supports
it....disabled or 2x or 1x if it does not)
            PnP Aware OS = "Yes"
            AGP Aperture Size = 128 mb (only if you have 128 mb or
more...which you should)
            Resources Controlled by = "Auto"
            Assign IRQ to VGA = "Yes"

Tom
Pabst -Racing.com

Max allowed under settings is 30mb so this one can't be correct.

Icer

Well, now you know. Unless I'm the clueless one and read the settings
incorrectly. I just changed form V5 to Asus V7700 two days ago and
I've tried out four different driver versions and one tweak utility
and they all have only allowed max of 30 so I think I am correct on
this one. :-)

You give up the great FSAA, but you will gain by being able to run
very high res with no/little  performance loss. It's a good trade-off,
IMO.

: Well, now you know. Unless I'm the clueless one and read the settings
: incorrectly. I just changed form V5 to Asus V7700 two days ago and
: I've tried out four different driver versions and one tweak utility
: and they all have only allowed max of 30 so I think I am correct on
: this one. :-)

Yes you are correct. 30 is the maximum. It's just a usless setting for you
since it only applies to PCI cards or an AGP card running in compatibility
mode. It doesn't matter what you set it too, it won't make a difference.

Anyone?