AGP Aperture Size - Does it really matter?

[antdude]

http://www.athlonmb.com/ubbhtml/Forum5/HTML/000053.html

Is this still true for Matrox G400 32 MB cards (I have a non-MAX model)?

[jws]

hmm, interesting thing happened to me. I did a reset of my bios in "optimal" mode. I went to play games and found I locked up a couple of times in Rune. This hadn't happened before, so I went to my bios and found my AGP size was 64. I had previously set it to 256, so I set it back. I played several more hours without lockups again. I can't say it wasn't just coincidence, but I think I'll stay at 256.

[xortam]

This isn't a gaming thread so I hope it gets relocated where others can find some of this useful information. I liked the BIOS site that the athlonmb thread referred to: the memory timings explanation was especially good.

[Brian R.]

There are some computers which will not boot with a G400 unless the AGP aperture is set to 256 MB. Some Dells fall into this category.

Dead - Dead - Deadsky

[Kruzin]

Like xortam, I think this is more a Matrox Hardware issue, rather than a games specific issue. This thread is relocated to Matrox Hardware

And Brian is correct. Some systems won't even boot with a G400 if the aperture is not cranked up to 128 or 256...