turning on side band addressing on asus gf3 v8200

[paxoman]

dose it help to turn on side band addressing?
if so how?
cheers:rolleyes:

[WillysNut]

paxoman....here's the definition for sideband addressing:

the AGP bus uses sideband signals to send addressing information separately from data. This technique allows addresss informaton to be presented to the bus concurrent with a data transaction. The result is a more efficient use of the AGP bus for data transfers. With sideband addressing, AGP utilized 8 extra "sideband lines" which allow the graphics controller to issue new addresses and requests simulataneously while data continues to move from previous requests on the main 32 data/address wires.

I believe sideband support depends on the game your playing..some games support, some don't, and more are probably likely to in the future. Can someone expand on this? Hope this helps.

[Pinky]

Klump!

I was wondering the same thing.

[Badger]

To enable sidebanding on geforce cards you need to flash the video bios with a modified sideband enabled bios version. I can do this mod if you like but I would not recommend it as sidebanding causes severe instability with every gf3 i've tried so far (about 4 up to now).
It's nothing to do with the game your playing.

[Pinky]

Thanks Badger and Willysnut, yet more info to squeeze into my tiny brain.

[WillysNut]

Originally posted by Badger

It's nothing to do with the game your playing.

Thanks for the info Badger. Sounded like it was more hardware related.