Hello, I just installed a new motherboard onto my computer, it's a P4P800 ASUS. It's a great motherboard. 1.8 P4 overclocked 2.2 Ghz P4P800 ASUS Mobo ATI 9600 PRO Those are my specs. Now, I just upgrade to the latest catylst drivers, but when I turn on 8x AGP, my computer hangs, my graphics lag, and I can't even run OPENGL, but when I run it at 4x AGP, everything works fine. Does anyone know the problem with this?
If you're talking about the 3.8 Cats, I've heard they're causing some people's monitors to croak, among other things. Try the older Catalyst drivers, like 3.6 as 3.7 seems to have some bugs as well. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a big deal concerning the AGP 8x speed with that motherboard or chipset, but AGP8x is more of a marketing hype than actual performance.
could you run it @ 8x AGP on the old catylst drivers? if you could and had no problems running games etc I would just use the older drivers. other wise you could try doing this, this answer is from research "check the agp voltage in your bios. up the voltage to 1.7 (default is 1.5) it might fix the problem"!
yeh! 8x over 4x doesnt seem to offer too much performance boost! I would worry too much having to use 4x AGP.
Thanks you so much. It was just a glitched version of the graphics drivers, and from my experiences, I had a P485 Pentium Motherboard, which only ran 4x AGP, and now that I run 8x, I notice a HUGE improvment on my part. Thank you so much for your time.
