graphic apertures size to 256 ??????

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Bonjour

what does it mean and what for in the setup of the bios?
why not 64,128,256 etc ...

Merci
Bonne fêtes de fin d'année 1999

[Jammrock]

The AGP aperture size tells the computer how much system memory can be used for graphics swapping. For example, if you have a 16 MB video card and play a game that uses 18 MB of texture information, the video card will store the extra texture information in system RAM and use it like a really slow video RAM.

The Aperature size has become a rather mute point since it is very rare that any game goes to system memory for texture swaps, because most video cards have more than enough RAM to handle any current game.

Set the Aperture size to 1/2 system RAM. If you have video troubles, set it to full RAM size. Some people set the Aperture size to 256 MB, even though they don't have that much RAM, to fix some bugs that have creeped up. So basically, it's not that important.

Jammrock

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Merci pour cette explication.

thank s and have an happy new year.

salutations

[Brian R.]

Some computers (Dell Gateway) require a 128-MB or 256-MB AGP aperture or they won't boot.

[MadCat]

The Matrox release notes state you should set the AGP aperture size to 256mb, regardless of the amount of ram in your machine.

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Thank's

Bonjour

i have 128 Mo pc100 Ram and if i don't fix agp apertures size to 256, when i try to look dvd i have an error write on disk c:
i don'y know why ? i don't see between write error and agp at 256 with only 128 Mo Ram.

carte asustek p2b pii 400 (not overclock)
ram 128 pc100
win 98SE
adaptec scsi card 2940 u2w
two seagate scsi hard drive 4.3go
pionner cd 32x scsi
matrox marvel g400 TV pd 5.30
nic card 3com 3c509
soud blaster awe64
dvd rom creative labs 5x first channel ide
cdrw yamaha ide second channel ide

it seems fix a "bug"...... ????????????

if anyone has the same problem ??