AGP Texture Acceleration & PCI-Express

* Les Matthew:

> Just got my first PCI-Express setup with a 7900GS on a nforce4 motherboard.
>
> The "Display" tab in dxdiag shows "AGP Texture Acceleration" as Enabled.
> Is this correct on a PCI-E setup?

Yes.

> I have spent some time on google searching for this but have found no
> definitive answer. (yet)
>
> Anybody got any idea's?

"AGP Texture Acceleration" refers to texture swapping (textures that
don't fit into the gfx card memory are swapped into system RAM, see also
"AGP Aperture"). This also works somewhat similar with PCIe cards, just
faster and there are no aperture size settings or anything like that
necessary any more.

Benjamin
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"Les Matthew" wrote in message

> Just got my first PCI-Express setup with a 7900GS on a nforce4
> motherboard.
>
> The "Display" tab in dxdiag shows "AGP Texture Acceleration" as Enabled.
> Is this correct on a PCI-E setup?
>
> I have spent some time on google searching for this but have found no
> definitive answer. (yet)
>
> Anybody got any idea's?
>
>
> les...

Disabled it on my dfi nf4 & 7950gx2 system. No problems to report yet and
no slower for it either.

Also, with it enabled you may get an icon on your desktop with a "~"
underneath it after using windows media player. Its something to do with
the agp settings for WMP and the fact you no longer have agp. When you
disable AGP Texture Acceleration this little icon no longer appears.

Chri$
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