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Aaron Levy
Medicated Lately?
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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07-12-2004 16:19
Why is AGP acceleration disabled by SL? Shouldn't I have the opportunity to use it if it works for me? Taking it away without giving me the option really really makes me mad.
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Nergal Fallingbridge
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Join date: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 677
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07-12-2004 18:32
IIRC that's driven by your BIOS and graphic card drivers. Update to the latest version for both from the mfr sites, and that should fix it. It's been a while, but that's what I had to do for mine.
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Aaron Levy
Medicated Lately?
Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
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07-12-2004 22:47
I'm a fanatic on keeping drivers up to date. I have other games that use AGP acceleration and they work fine.
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,989
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07-12-2004 23:31
I'm pretty sure it's only if you have an ATI card, because it causes more problems than it's worth.
Like bad problems....you wouldn't want to try it. I think it might cause random CTDs and maybe some nasty visual bugs.
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Sagely Best
Junior Member
Join date: 22 Apr 2004
Posts: 1
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07-16-2004 08:46
Do you have ATI or Nvidia card? For me, (I have an Nvidia), Second Life notified me that I didn't have AGP drivers installed (oops), and once I installed them, I had to turn on AGP in the game by checking the AGP box in video options. It's at the top of the video options screen if I remember correctly. Dunno if it's different for ATI but that's I did for my Nvidia card.
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Stylez Gomez
Union Micro
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 146
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07-16-2004 10:27
Yeah it's disabled for ATI cards. It doesn't really matter though because from what I heard it doesn't make THAT much of a difference. Besides, my framerates are just fine with it off. Long story short, I wouldn't worry about it.  |
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Larry Manilow
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Join date: 1 Jul 2004
Posts: 15
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07-16-2004 16:22
Assuming you have a Radeon with recent drivers (and are running Windoze), you can control the AGP settings by running the "smartgart" utility. Just do Start->Run and type "smartgart[enter]" into the textbox. When you upgrade your drivers, these settings revert to the (automagically "detected"  defaults, so you will need to change them again. After turning off AGP Read and AGP Write in this dialog box, my A7V8X/AIW Radeon combo is rock solid playing SL and everything else at 8X AGP speeds. The defaults had AGP Read "On" and I had some crashes. I kind of doubt that this really means you are running in pure-PCI mode, even if the checkbox in SL is grey.
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