AGP selection problem

for some reason , when i go into prreferneces and then into Adv. Graphics option, i cant seem to select the AGP selection, even though i am running a ATI 850 AGP card..... why is that and has someone had the same problem and what did you do about it.....?

Rutain

OK, NM ON THIS POST....I HAVE FOUND ANOTHER POST ON THIS BELOW...I GUESS SL DOESNT LIKE ATI..... SIGH.....

It's less about SL hating ATI and more about ATI making funky drivers. ATI's claim to fame in the past was crappy driver support too. They've since done a great job of fixing that problem, but I guess they go about doing their AGP acceleration in an oddball fashion so that LL can't (or won't) write SL to interact with it and still remain compatable with nVidia which i hear has a straight forward API.

I hear we aren't missing much anyways, most reports I get from people with nVidia cards is a 3-5 fps increase. Hardly anything to write home about. A better processor and/or more RAM would give you the same results, AND benefit the majority of your system otherwise. Of course AGP acceleration is free now versus a system upgrade.

Feynt is right, bottom line is, You cannot enable AGP with an ATI video card, which is completely unfair since after all it IS an AGP card

Actually my Radeon 9700 Pro comes in a PCI version too, and there's a few new PCI-E cards by ATI too... >.>
But yes, the majority is AGP at the moment. In a couple of years it won't matter at all though, we'll all have moved on to AGP-E (you know it'll happen).