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Large AAS

 

Large AAS, AGP Aperture Size
Tom9729

18 Jun, 2009 - 05:20 AM
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Just bought another gig of ram for my desktop bringing the total to 2gb. My graphics card is a GeForce 6600 256mb AGP 8x.

My understanding is that the AAS (AGP Aperture Size) lets the graphics card use system RAM like it is VRAM. I can't see many of the games I play using much more than 1gb of RAM, but I would like to be able to use the higher texture quality settings in the games I play (Oblivion, Battlefield 2).

Anyone see a problem with setting the AAS to 512mb or even 1gb? The RAM isn't here yet or I would just try it, but I'm curious if anyone else has experience with this. smile.gif

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18 Jun, 2009 - 06:56 AM
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Since your AA memory wont kick in until your video cards on-board memory has exceeded it probably wont make much difference in the performance you get from your games at the minute.

This is mostly as game developers try to stick to the on-board memory limits. If you set your AAS to huge sizes it probably wont make much difference, this only sets the maximum amount and since most games wont exceed the on-board memory then it wont be used.

Then again setting it high wont hurt. Just don't expect a huge performance boost icon_up.gif
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