AGP X Problem

03-07-2004, 18:51

Well I got that system, works great but I got a problem with the graphics card. The problem is that on the box it says the card is 4x compatible, and so is the motherboard. I updated the graphics drivers to the latest, and checked the AGP information and it said the VGA card was compatible with 2x and 1x, and the motherboard was compatible with 4x, 2x, and 1x. The card is SUPPOSED to be set to 4x, it's set to 4x in the BIOS too. Any ideas why it won't shift from 2x? It's making my card lack of speed when looking at long distances on counter strike (which when in close spaces, I get an FPS of 90-100).

Thanks for you help

Richard M · 03-07-2004, 18:53

Which card is it?
How do you know it's running at 2x?

03-07-2004, 18:56

It's a Pine 3D Phantom XP-3800 which has the SIS 315E GPU, and 64MB of DDR memory. AIDA32 and the AGP information program I got with the card both say it's in 2X AGP mode.

downquark1 · 03-07-2004, 19:03

You could try updating the AGP driver for your motherboard.

03-07-2004, 19:04

I wasn't able to find it, I'm not sure if I found the correct one or not because it didn't seem to work if it was the right one

keithwalton · 03-07-2004, 19:10

agp 4x wont help you much there im afraid, you'll be lacking raw graphics processing power. Close spaces go faster as it has less to draw, i could hit 100fps and stay there mostly with a 1GHz amd tbird and a gefroce 256, needless to say the counter stops at 100, i'm sure my current system would prob be past 400 or so.
Tho i havent play cs in donkeys so i wouldn't know
(3.22GHz P4 and Asus 9800xt)

K

03-07-2004, 19:12

Yeh but this card shouldn't drop to 20FPS at long distances, my notebook which has a S3 Twister, which is intergrated and uses 32mb of the SD-RAM doesn't drop that much. I usually get about 40-50 at close range with that one, then at long distance something around 35-40.

Richard M · 03-07-2004, 19:29

It should actually, onboard graphics cards are not very good.

swoop101 · 03-07-2004, 19:44

Try the driver from http://download.sis.com/download_ste...os=4&x=16&y=11

it is the graphics driver for that Sis chipset.

03-07-2004, 20:34

That's the one I already downloaded and installed. Still says 2X AGP, and lags at long distances.

03-07-2004, 20:45

hiya

what have you got your agp aperture set to in the bios?

according to this

http://www.ocfaq.com/article.php/ove...ing/vidcard/43

128MB may work better with 64MB cards?

- doesn't solve the 2X problem, but it may get your frame rate up?

03-07-2004, 20:55

The BIOS default is 128mb, so I left it at that.

03-07-2004, 21:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

The BIOS default is 128mb, so I left it at that.

bum, I was hoping it had been set at 64MB, I don't think you will get anywhere allocating more than 128MB, either.

- is there a GART setting page in the control panel for your card? Mine has a 'retest settings' button to check the agp multiplier is being detected correctly.

03-07-2004, 21:49

I'm running Windows ME, i'm trying to get XP on but I got to find a place that sells it cheap. Iv'e also heard it's because of my hard drive being very old, so being very slow and so pulling the graphics card down. Could this be the problem?

swoop101 · 03-07-2004, 22:02

Try the AGP (GART) driver from http://download.sis.com/agreement.php?id=155871