Disable AGP Fast Write to minimize skipping

[God™]

Disable AGP Fast Writes in your bios (if your mobo supports this). It could minimize some of the skipping.

I've noticed on the web that this has helped a few people out re: HL2...

 

[Bastion]

ditto that Fast Writes+ATI=crap

 

[lopoz]

ditto that Fast Writes+ATI=crap

I´m using a Mobility 9700, but afaik its based on the 9600 chipset, which requires AGP Fast Writes to be enabled.. (otherwise you get texture errors etc)

can anyone comment on that?

 

[oMaYHeMo]

Um, NO! There is nothing about this solution that makes sense.
Besides the fact that I tried it just to be thorough before responding, it's not logical. Do you guys know what fastwrites are even?

It's called the placebo effect.

 

[lopoz]

Um, NO! There is nothing about this solution that makes sense.
Besides the fact that I tried it just to be thorough before responding, it's not logical. Do you guys know what fastwrites are even?

It's called the placebo effect.

well..... how about... you explain it then..

your post is quite useless the way it is now.. :rolling:

 

[Pippinator]

Its the speed that the graphics card is initialized. Once the graphics card is initialised (within a graphical environment) it serves no purpose, therefore would change nothing but maybe the speed the hl2 main menu loads, or the begining of a game if you just start the hl2 for the first time.

THIS WILL NOT FIX YOUR PROBLEMS! CLOSE THIS THREAD PLEASE MODS!

 

[God™]

From evga's site:

In order to enable fast writes both your motherboard and your graphics card must support it. All GeForce cards support Fast Writes, but not all motherboard chipsets do. In particular the various versions of the Intel i815 chipset do not support Fast Writes. You must also bear in mind that even if a particular motherboard chipset will support Fast Writes, that the bios for that motherboard may have the option disabled.

AGP Fast Writes make a very small performance difference, but have been known to cause a wide variety of stability problems, so please be cautious and use the information below at your own risk.

and from nVidia:

AGP 4X with Fast Writes is a unique feature implemented on the GeForce 256 GPU™ (Graphics Processor Unit). NVIDIA is the only vendor to take advantage of this feature, even though Fast Writes is part of the AGP 2.0 specification. Fast Writes improves all writes from the CPU to the graphics chip including: all 2D operations, operations involving writing to the frame buffer or sending any data to the graphics chip, loading textures in Direct3D® into local memory and writing push buffers to graphics local memory – this is where most of the performance boost is generated.

I would think this would impact more than just menu loading performance :E

I'm not saying this will fix everyone's problem, but it can help with those certain peoples with hardware compatibility issues. Do a search on google and you'll find tons of people in various threads mentioning that disabling the feature removed the jerkyness from their games...

So no... I don't think this thread is useless...