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How to get AGP Accel on with PCI Express card?

Francis Chung
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 918
06-03-2005 10:01
Hi all,

I get the follow message whenever I boot up SL:

"GL indicatese that the graphics driver on this system is runing Pci mode, a slower method of drawing graphics. [snipsnip] If you are using a PCI Express graphics card you can enable AGP Graphics from the Options panel in the Preferences in Second Life."

I'm running an NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 card, on a PCI Express x16 Bus, with the 76.50 drivers.

Going into the "Preference" dialog, there is no "Options" panel. Thre is an "Adv. Graphics" panel, which has a checkbox labelled "AGP Graphics Acceleration (faster if using an AGP graphics card).

I get the "You are using PCI mode" message, regardless of whether that checkbox is checked or not. What gives? How do I turn on AGP Graphics acceleration?
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Thili Playfair
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Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
06-03-2005 10:22
Pci-express - doesnt show up as a agp card in SL, even if you get it to work, its no speed diffrence at all, with it off/on.

I use a agp card, and debug constantly spam -
WARNING Mixing agp and non-AGP pools, slow!
:) hehe


For now id just ignore it, eventually SL will get the option to use it for pci-express, or just remove that msg.