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Memory for textures in PCI mode - does it matter with AGP cards?

2 posts by 2 people · 12 Jan 2002 16:11 UTC - 16 Jan 2002 07:55 UTC

Scott 12 Jan 2002 16:11 UTC#142113
It seems that most people say to leave zero mb of Memory for textures in PCI mode if you have an AGP card. But if I have an AGP card, does it even matter how much memory I allocate to textures in PCI mode? In other words, wouldn't the AGP aberture size be the variable that would change memory allocation with respect to textures? Maybe I'm talking about two different things, but I don't see how the PCI allocation would even matter.
Pretty much your video card will never even use that setting, 99.9% of the time all textures are held in local video memory and so this is never an issue. Same for AGP aperature (although it occasionally has an influence despite AGP transfers not being used, quite mysterious). So don't bother with it. Rafe Mc On 12 Jan 2002 08:11:59 -0800, [email hidden] (Scott) wrote:
Quoted text (7 lines)>It seems that most people say to leave zero mb of Memory for textures >in PCI mode if you have an AGP card. But if I have an AGP card, does >it even matter how much memory I allocate to textures in PCI mode? In >other words, wouldn't the AGP aberture size be the variable that would >change memory allocation with respect to textures? Maybe I'm talking >about two different things, but I don't see how the PCI allocation >would even matter.

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