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a 7800gs would give u the same performance as ur 9800np because ur cpu bottlenecked. but to your question did your old card work on x8 ? if so maybe your card is faulty
Originally Posted by nukie I get lock ups and VPU recovery warnings and basically locking up completely every 5 seconds when using X8 AGP mode on Smartgart.. if i turn the AGP OFF(, i have no problem but it seems i might be running the card in PCI mode and that might explain the low performance. I am using AMD 1800+ RAM 512 ASUS A7V880 VIA KT800 RADEON 9800NP Running latest 6.1 drivers. I tried installing VIA AGP 3.0 driver. I do not have X4 option on the smartgart. I only get OFF or 8X. the system boots well on X8 but it locks up every 3~5 completely and gets VPU recovery warning ( rebooting/resetting warning) on any 3D game. I just bought this card and i see no real improvment over 9100 i had. and running the card on PCI mode might explain it. The computer boots into 8X no problem.. it doesn't reset it to off like some ppl but the problem is i can't run the 3D applications as i get totally locked up and gets VPU warnings. HELP PLEASE!!! |
