Hi,
I recently emailed Matrox tech support about that problem I had with my sound card's drivers. It seems like there is no solution but the guy with whom I spoke explained to me that virtual IRQ thing Windows 2000 is using...
Here's what he said:
Your system is using Virtual IRQ's. Hence the 128, 48, and the 31. A system only has 15 IRQ's and by using virtual IRQ's can hender system performance and cause many different problems. Please make sure that in the bios of your motherboard you have Assign IRQ to VGA and PNP OS set to disable. If your motherboard allows it you can also set IRQ's to certain PCI slots and see if that alters there IRQ's.
Do you think that disabling this thing could help me with my 850 (yes 850) score under 3D mark?
Moreover I saw these settings in my (very conservative) AMIBIOS:
BX MASTER LATENCY TIMER 64
MULTI TRANS TIMER 32
AGP MULTI-TRANS TIMER 32
AGP LOW PRIORITY TIMER 16
Could anyone explain what these numbers refer to? Should I change any one of them, would that result in any performance gains?
Anyway this "virtual" thing with Win2k is really starting to get on me nerves! Virtual IRQs Vitual desktop... I wonder whether microsoft will accept virtual money as well for its future products...
Thanks!
GD
[This message has been edited by GD (edited 19 July 2000).]
I recently emailed Matrox tech support about that problem I had with my sound card's drivers. It seems like there is no solution but the guy with whom I spoke explained to me that virtual IRQ thing Windows 2000 is using...
Here's what he said:
Your system is using Virtual IRQ's. Hence the 128, 48, and the 31. A system only has 15 IRQ's and by using virtual IRQ's can hender system performance and cause many different problems. Please make sure that in the bios of your motherboard you have Assign IRQ to VGA and PNP OS set to disable. If your motherboard allows it you can also set IRQ's to certain PCI slots and see if that alters there IRQ's.
Do you think that disabling this thing could help me with my 850 (yes 850) score under 3D mark?
Moreover I saw these settings in my (very conservative) AMIBIOS:
BX MASTER LATENCY TIMER 64
MULTI TRANS TIMER 32
AGP MULTI-TRANS TIMER 32
AGP LOW PRIORITY TIMER 16
Could anyone explain what these numbers refer to? Should I change any one of them, would that result in any performance gains?
Anyway this "virtual" thing with Win2k is really starting to get on me nerves! Virtual IRQs Vitual desktop... I wonder whether microsoft will accept virtual money as well for its future products...
Thanks!
GD
[This message has been edited by GD (edited 19 July 2000).]
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