agp texture acceleration in directx 9

xdoom · Jan 20, 2003, 09:49 PM

i have a asus a7n266-c mobo and radeon 9700 pro card all latest drivers for the mobo and graphics card and i have no agp texture acceleration enabled it says not avalible and my scores in 3dmark without it is only 9000!@!@ i used to get 13000+ before i formated and i had agp texture acceleration before i know for a fact dont know what to do tryed everything fooled with the bios upgraded it i got a nforce board i think it has something to do with the agp miniport driver but tryed 2 revisions of it and cant get it working someone please help

*sireric* · Jan 24, 2003, 01:34 AM

Check your control panel -> adminstrative tools -> services

Check that "ATI Smart" is set to automatic on "Startup type". If it isn't, set it to automatic, restart it and reboot.

Junk · Jan 24, 2003, 04:06 AM

Can you enable AGP Texture Acceleration using dxdiag?

*sireric* · Jan 24, 2003, 04:25 AM

It might be possible to do a DX runtime enable or disable of AGP texturing. But the reason that AGP texturing is most often disabled is either that the ATI Smart service is not running, or that the driver install did not work correctly. The procedure for installing drivers is to remove the current control panel, no reboot, then remove the current drivers and reboot. Then, install the new drivers, reboot, then install the new control panel.

But if the smart gart service was disabled in the past, it does not get re-enabled in a new install.

digitalwanderer · Jan 24, 2003, 05:16 AM

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Originally posted by sireric
But if the smart gart service was disabled in the past, it does not get re-enabled in a new install.

Just out of curiousity...does that also apply to a "clean" install? Where you do a total driver un-install, and then boot into another OS just to rip out the little bits and pieces ya never quite can from the operating OS?

I guess I'm asking if it's based on a registry entry or not.

*sireric* · Jan 24, 2003, 06:06 AM

I'm not sure to what level the service control works. Certainly on an OS re-install, it would be clean :-)

It's easy enough to just check the status and re-enable it if it isn't enabled. Takes about 30 seconds.

nz_skater · Jan 25, 2003, 12:59 AM

What is texture acceleration exactly? I just replaced my Ti4200 with a 9500 Pro and currently know pretty much nothing about ATI cards. I've installed the latest Catalyst drivers from the ATI site and the Control Panel.

*sireric* · Jan 25, 2003, 01:06 AM

It's simple AGP texturing. It's the same feature on all cards (ATI, NV) -- Basically, it allows textures to come from AGP system memory instead of only from the video card's local memory. With less than 64MB of onboard video, that kind of feature can be pretty useful. With 128MB or more, it's much less, though some of the apps coming down the line pretty soon will be using up more than 128MB -- Certainly so if you enable AA modes.

UberLord · Jan 25, 2003, 01:24 AM

If you had a 128mb card and say 512meg + system RAM, could I expect to run UT2003 full detail 4x AA and not get texture swapping? (ie AGP access or even worse HDD access) Or is this a pipe dream and I need a more memory on the card or turn down AA?

*sireric* · Jan 25, 2003, 04:18 AM

What res? At 1600x1200 with 6xAA, you're using > 120 MB of memory for the render buffer. With 4xAA, at 1024 or 1280, I would think that most levels of UT2003 would fit in mem...

Jan 20, 2003, 09:49 PM	#1
xdoom DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	agp texture acceleration in directx 9 i have a asus a7n266-c mobo and radeon 9700 pro card all latest drivers for the mobo and graphics card and i have no agp texture acceleration enabled it says not avalible and my scores in 3dmark without it is only 9000!@!@ i used to get 13000+ before i formated and i had agp texture acceleration before i know for a fact dont know what to do tryed everything fooled with the bios upgraded it i got a nforce board i think it has something to do with the agp miniport driver but tryed 2 revisions of it and cant get it working someone please help

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UberLord A Legend in Underwear Join Date: May 2002 Location: Unknown Posts: 5,255 Rep Power: 0	If you had a 128mb card and say 512meg + system RAM, could I expect to run UT2003 full detail 4x AA and not get texture swapping? (ie AGP access or even worse HDD access) Or is this a pipe dream and I need a more memory on the card or turn down AA? __________________ Gentoo Linux - Developer (baselayout) Read my blog "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen Roberts

Jan 24, 2003, 01:34 AM	#2
sireric ATI Hardware Guru Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	Check your control panel -> adminstrative tools -> services Check that "ATI Smart" is set to automatic on "Startup type". If it isn't, set it to automatic, restart it and reboot.

Jan 24, 2003, 04:25 AM	#4
sireric ATI Hardware Guru Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	It might be possible to do a DX runtime enable or disable of AGP texturing. But the reason that AGP texturing is most often disabled is either that the ATI Smart service is not running, or that the driver install did not work correctly. The procedure for installing drivers is to remove the current control panel, no reboot, then remove the current drivers and reboot. Then, install the new drivers, reboot, then install the new control panel. But if the smart gart service was disabled in the past, it does not get re-enabled in a new install.

Jan 24, 2003, 06:06 AM	#6
sireric ATI Hardware Guru Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	I'm not sure to what level the service control works. Certainly on an OS re-install, it would be clean :-) It's easy enough to just check the status and re-enable it if it isn't enabled. Takes about 30 seconds.

Jan 25, 2003, 12:59 AM	#7
nz_skater DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: NZ Posts: 33 Rep Power: 0	What is texture acceleration exactly? I just replaced my Ti4200 with a 9500 Pro and currently know pretty much nothing about ATI cards. I've installed the latest Catalyst drivers from the ATI site and the Control Panel.

Jan 25, 2003, 01:06 AM	#8
sireric ATI Hardware Guru Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	It's simple AGP texturing. It's the same feature on all cards (ATI, NV) -- Basically, it allows textures to come from AGP system memory instead of only from the video card's local memory. With less than 64MB of onboard video, that kind of feature can be pretty useful. With 128MB or more, it's much less, though some of the apps coming down the line pretty soon will be using up more than 128MB -- Certainly so if you enable AA modes.

Jan 25, 2003, 04:18 AM	#10
sireric ATI Hardware Guru Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 53 Rep Power: 0	What res? At 1600x1200 with 6xAA, you're using > 120 MB of memory for the render buffer. With 4xAA, at 1024 or 1280, I would think that most levels of UT2003 would fit in mem...