AGP fix

[diamond geezer]

I don't know if anyone's posted this before, but I've managed to get it running on a couple of older machines by increasing the VGA aperture from 64Mb to 256Mb in the BIOS. Luckily both systems have 1Gb RAM.

Can't get it working on my main though - CTD at the XML load, and none of the "fixes" work for me (UK DVD).

 

[EdCase]

Hmmm...interesting as I have had success by reducing the AGP aperture FROM 256 to 128 and in one instance 64.

 

[Omegamerc]

apg aperture is just how much RAM is saved for the video card, techies recommend 50% of the ram on the video card; so if you have 128mb onboard on the vidcard, set aperture to 64mb; given that you have enough ram on your main system.

 

[venn]

I've seen tests round the net stating that usually 64 mb aperture is recommended, regardless of the amount of system ram. In any case 256 MB seems like a lot.

 

[diamond geezer]

All I can say is that both systems had graphics glitches on 64Mb, which disappeared after changing the aperture to 256Mb. 128Mb may be enough but I haven't tested - I'll try it later on one. Also it will depend on your video card. These are both older cards without much onboard memory (64Mb I think). Perhaps 64+64 isn't enough.