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01-25-2004, 06:17 PM
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Okay, what now...
One of my customers with 98se and 512mb of memory wants to buy a 256mb graphics card.
Is he inviting trouble ? Now that M$ is supporting 98 for 2 more years I expect to hear more of this. I thought 128mb for video would be the limit for 9x OSs or was that just something I got wrong?
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01-25-2004, 07:00 PM
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I certainly could be wrong, but I don't think the OS cares or even knows how much memory the graphics card has...
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01-25-2004, 07:11 PM
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Considering that many games have a $prefs:: TextureCacheSize = "220"; or thereabouts, when is a 128megs agp card (much less higher) ever going to get filled up? That "220" is kb. No wonder games stutter on hi end boxes, everything has to be drawn from the hdd, passed thru the agp bus and handled by the card. And no, the os may not notice/care at all if the agp has 4 or 256 megs. In most cases it is a waste of fast mem. Unless you know how to open up the cache size...
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01-25-2004, 07:21 PM
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Thanks guys.
So he's not wasting his cash but need not do this ? |
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