Re: AGP card reported as being a PCI card??????

The reason being is that I am playing Hellgatelondon, and the new section
called the Wild features mulitple mobs of demons, and the only way you can
survive is being part of a party, usually totalling 5 players. The result is
a very graphically intense environment, particularly when Marksmen start
using Electroshock guns. My fps slows right down then freezes.

I gather that AGP is better than PCI, so if the card is not using all of its
capabilities then it interferes with my gameplay and enjoyment. Getting a
512MB DDR2 card, would, I hope, improve things slightly, but how much better
if I could use the AGP setting? I've just downloaded a program called Fresh
Diagnose, and it tells me that I am using an AGP card, and it doesn't feature
in the PCI diagnostics. Yet when I click on the Nvidia control centre and
system info, it tells me it is PCI bus. That's why I want to know what's
going on.

"philo" wrote:


"npharrison" <npharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Asrock K7S8X MOBO, and have been running an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
256mb card. It is an AGP card in the AGP slot. To cut a long story short I
found that it was being reported as being a pci card in the catalyst
control
centre. I used smartgart, rebooted, pci. So I went into the bios, changed
the
aperture setting from 64 to 256, and changed the setting from PCI to AGP.

Retested in Smartgart, back came the report, pci. So I removed the radeon
drivers, and downloaded omega drivers. PCI. So I uninstalled them,
borrowed a
friend's nvidia fx5000 card (or something similar) AGP, put it into the
AGP
slot, checked the bios, AGP. Checked the system info when everything had
loaded - PCI.

So the question is, with the PnP bios, why is the AGP card being
recognised
as a PCI? How do I get Windows to recognise the AGP card as being AGP? Is
it
a windows problem? Or could it be a mobo problem?

Owing to financial limitations I want to upgrade the graphics card, and
was
going for a 512MB ati x1650 ddr2 agp. The extra ram would help, but I want
my
AGP card to be an AGP card. So suggestions most welcome.

Thank you


First off, if your video is working OK I would not worry about how Windows
specifies your card...
but since you are going to replace it...Why would you even care how it's
seen if you are going to remove it anyway.



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