AGP aperture?

[nurdonsite2]

what is it and what does it do. mine is set at 64 mb right now but i have a gerforce fx 5200 128 mb card. should i change it to 128?

[John Prophet]

An article about it http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/aperture-size/

their definition------> Generally measured in megabytes (MB), AAS is the amount of system memory (RAM) shared with an AGP graphics card in order for it to have more memory to process textures and other visual data.



So I guess that means if you have plenty of system RAM that a bigger aperture size is ok....though I havent read the article. Nowadays we all have lots of RAM so 128 aperture may be good for the more detailed games etc.


Maybe some true gamers will respond and let us know the real deal.

JP

[Idigguns]

JP said it well. I set mine to 128. I think most gamers do too.

[Kc2iLq]

I use 128 for my 64Mb cards and my 128Mb cards. Anything less seems to leave me with lower frame rate.

-Kc2iLq

[agathodaimon]

Originally posted by Kc2iLq
I use 128 for my 64Mb cards and my 128Mb cards. Anything less seems to leave me with lower frame rate.

-Kc2iLq

[rastorize]

I always thought the aperture needed to be twice that of your video cards' memory...so if you have 128MB, then the aperture is set to 256MB...?

[Buzioid]

Wow, I never actually knew what that did, I'm going to try and lower mine, I only have 256mb ram and don't want to share it.

[soulja]

well mines is set to 128 for my 64mb card . how does it change it ? and they have 1 mor option, its 256, what to change to ?

[aarmenaa]

I've always used twice my video RAM or half my system RAM, whichever is lower (usually twice the video RAM is lower). I haven't seen it fail yet, but there's a first time for everything.

-Aarmenaa

[PyroSama]

I always run it the same as my vid card.


PyroSama