Ever mess with agp drive and aperture size/gf3ti200??

[Blakhart]

Hi
Anyone try anything other than automatic settings for the gf3?
What did you notice as a result?
Thanks

[Lord Prism]

My 3dMark2001 scores improved DRASTICALLY when I increased my AGP aperture from 64MB to 128MB.

Does that help?

[Blakhart]

Yeah it does. I have 512 and somewhere I read that half your mem should be the number for aperture.
I will try 256 as it is still at 128. Any other settings you have messed with?

[Lord Prism]

Not really. I've tried looking for an exhaustive source for best bios setting for gameplay. Maybe we should make a list and ask for MOST LIKELY BEST SETTINGS here.

[Blakhart]

Yeah that would save folks a lot of searching. Even a simple guide like "enabled is faster" or "disabled is better" for each common option. Never saw one that wasn't from the days of EDO ram....

[Lord Prism]

Here's list below of some things I'd like to get recommendations on.
What would you change or add?

CPU L2 Cache ECC Checking
Gate A20 Option
Video Bios Shadow
DRAM Fast R-W Turn Around
Continuous DRAM Request
AGP FAST WRITE
AGP Master 1 WS Write
AGP Master 1 WS Read
Memory Hole
System Bios Chacheable
Video RAM Cacheable
PCI/VGA Palette Snoop

[Blakhart]

Cache ecc chek I always turn off, it uses a very reliable type of mem for cache. There is a minor performance hit when enabled.
Gate 20 I leave at fast or normal, no pref from me!
Vid bios shad I turn off, this is conditional.....
Dram fast rw turn around you should set as fast and look for any instabilities.
Continuous dram req, that is one I am unfamiliar with. Try both settings and see if it lags or not...
Fastwrites would be nice to have on but it leads to probs in many cases and I have seen tests that show 1% improvement at the risk of some probs= mine is off...
agp master waits= this may depend on if the mobo inserts 2 by default or none at all. If 2 by default then 1 is faster. If no waits as default, do not enable ws at all.
Leave mem hole off always unless you use only dos all the time.
Sys bios cache should be off as windows will use it's own settings anyway after boot... another cache waster.
Vid ram cache is unnecessary unless you run into probs such as sleep mode vid probs and such, this will apply to vid bios shadow as well, some sleep/power settings can muck this up.
Pci/agp pallette should always be off in a modern system.
A word here about any cacheing: if you use up your cache on needless processes you will have a slower system than if you had the cache free. Some systems need to have some items cached to run reliably. Most of these will be old ones.
Hope I have answered to your satisfaction!
CU

[Blakhart]

As to what questions I will add, I have a bios hack program that has loads and loads of options to mess with and I will have to make a print of the options it shows that are hidden by most every bios.
I am scared of messing with most of them as they are very esoteric, at least to me!!

[Lord Prism]

Hey,
I just found this in another thread:

http://rojakpot.net/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guide_Index.htm

[Blakhart]

Right on.
Good work my friend!