hmm... what have i done wrong?

[Paddy]

Hiya all,

I have just reinstalled Win2K on my computer and I have noticed that I have no AGP texture acceleration. I have had this before, but I can’t remember how I resolved it.

I am using a G400 on an Asus A7V:

Bios (revision 1007/fxd):
AGP speed set to x2 (x1, x2, x4 available – makes no observable difference)
Fast Writes enabled (if I disable it it makes no difference)
All other AGP settings set to auto

Win2K:
DirectX 8.0
G400 Driver 5.51
Hardware acceleration set to full

Er… do you need any other info, as I don’t really know what would enable/disable this…


TIA,

Paddy

[dZeus]

Patrick,

- did you run netmeeting desktop sharing? if so, disable it.
- did you install the latest VIA 4in1 drivers? if not, download and install the 4.29v one from www.viahardware.com
- did you disable busmastering? if so, re-enable it in the powerdesk options tab
- are you running your desktop in 24bit colour mode? if so, change to either 16bpp or 32bpp

I hope it's one of these things
Good luck!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Paddy, have you installed the win2k AGP patch which should be on your m/board cd?

[Nuno]

Strange. That looks like the 5.3x bug that disabled AGP tex accel with VIA/Athlon systems. 5.51 cured it though...

Look at dZeus sugestions...

[Paddy]

Ayoub: er... no - I have misplaced the CD! Do you mean the LargePageMinimun reg fix?

dZeus: no to all.
I installed netmeeting and then disabled remote desktop sharing.
I am using the VIA 4in1 v4.29a

[Haig]

I installed netmeeting and then disabled remote desktop sharing.

If this means that at one point it was enabled, then simply disabling it won't work.

Try the following:

- enable desktop sharing by using the desktop sharing wizard.

- right click on the Desktop sharing icon (NOT the Netmeeting icon) in the taskbar and choose "Exit".

- go back into the desktop sharing configuration and disable Desktop Sharing.

- reboot. It should be ok now.

Haig

[prr]

Haig,
Do I understand You correctly, that the AGP texture problem on Via chipsets has been solved? At least 5.51 release doc says, the problem is unsolved:
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/dr...k551_notes.txt

[Haig]

Hi Rene,

yes it has been solved but the release notes weren't updated.

Regards

[prr]

Many thanx, Haig!
I just read the doc and since there was no fixes I was intrested in, I didn't even download 5.51 drivers. One problem fixed now

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Paddy, you can get the patch from here if that's the problem.

[Paddy]

Doh!

- this is the fourth time i have tried to post this, so here goes:

I er.... installed 5.31 by mistake ....so...erm...I am very sorry for all the inconvenience!

I feel a little bit sheepish!

[begin flames]

[agallag]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Paddy [MU]:
I feel a little bit sheepish!</font>

That's odd, you look more goatish than sheepish.

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