G400Max no AGP support???

[Sanjuro Makabe]

When I run Dxdiag, and goto display tab...it says I don't have AGP support...is this normal?????

PIII550E SECC2 @ 733Mhz
ASUS P3V4X (4in1 4.17)
128Mb PC100 C2 Ram
G400Max (5.30, 5.52 tried both)
Sblive!
Win98se

[Kruzin]

Nope.
Something is wrong.
Perhaps you don't have an IRQ assigned to the G400, or maybe you used some tweaker to turn off sidebanding?.

[Brama]

Yes it is normal with VIA drivers 4.17.
You can refer to my posts in my thread about no DirectX AGP with P3V4X and VIA drivers 4.17.

Summarizing this is the situation:

VIA 4.17 detects correctly the AGP aperture size and works nicely under OpenGL games but they DON'T enable AGP under DirectX.

VIA 4.20 detects wrongly the AGP aperture size so most of OpenGL games crash or work very poorly.
On the other side 4.20 enables correctly DirectX AGP and, in my case, 3D Mark 2000 increases of 100 points.


Any people with P3V4X or Abit with VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset can confirm with DXDIAG my tests.

I will send my experiences to VIA support, please any people that have this problem bomb their support in order to have rapidly a new AGP driver.

Bye

[Sanjuro Makabe]

Thanks for your reply Kruzin and Brama,
But since 4.17 performs better than 4.20...but 4.20 has AGP support ON in DX...then is 4.17 still better than 4.20? or is 4.20 better?...I am using 4.17 rite now...and will try 4.20 tonite...

and also, I am using PD5.52 now...some games such as Hard Truck 2, KA52 Team Alligator freezes and doesn't show EMBM...but I have heard PD5.30 fixes it...should I use PD5.30?...keep in mind that I get close to twice the FPS when playing UT....yes..i know it's wierd...thx again