Kudos
Warlord
- Joined
- Nov 6, 2003
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I've been trying to load a game for weeks now with various settings (even all low) but it continues to be unplayably slow and, what's more, it was taking about 30 minutes to load (quite literally).
I have found that lowering the AGP aperture size in your bios settings to the lowest setting possible, 32mb in my case, has solved the problem. You can access the bios screen usually by pressing something like F2 on the system start up screen. Then search around for AGP aperture size and reduce it as low as possible.
In a 3dmark05 test I found that the lower the aperture size the overall better score. The results were:
Aperture size - 3Dmark05 score
256mb - 3009
128mb - 3005
64mb - 3055
32mb - 3225
As you can see the difference between a typical 128mb aperture size and the lowest one possible is very significant. It seems bigger is not always better in this case. Try playing around with aperture sizes and testing what works best for you. It is very much dependent on your graphics card, amount of ram and video ram, and the game that you're playing (I have found Battlefield 2 works best on 64mb or 128mb).
My specs are:
p4 HT 3ghz, 1024mb 3200 ram, 128mb 6600gt with 85.95 drivers.
Of course this doesn't solve the consistent pc crashing or crash to 4-bit desktops, but hey it's a start.
I have found that lowering the AGP aperture size in your bios settings to the lowest setting possible, 32mb in my case, has solved the problem. You can access the bios screen usually by pressing something like F2 on the system start up screen. Then search around for AGP aperture size and reduce it as low as possible.
In a 3dmark05 test I found that the lower the aperture size the overall better score. The results were:
Aperture size - 3Dmark05 score
256mb - 3009
128mb - 3005
64mb - 3055
32mb - 3225
As you can see the difference between a typical 128mb aperture size and the lowest one possible is very significant. It seems bigger is not always better in this case. Try playing around with aperture sizes and testing what works best for you. It is very much dependent on your graphics card, amount of ram and video ram, and the game that you're playing (I have found Battlefield 2 works best on 64mb or 128mb).
My specs are:
p4 HT 3ghz, 1024mb 3200 ram, 128mb 6600gt with 85.95 drivers.
Of course this doesn't solve the consistent pc crashing or crash to 4-bit desktops, but hey it's a start.
