AGP Fastwrites?

[DaMobster]

I found this option in my BIOs asking me if I wanted to enable or disable AGP Fastwrites, and I was wondering what it exactly did since it doesn't say in my manual, and if it's best to have it disabled or enabled...

 

[stratcatprowlin]

Its supposed to Give you better video card performance but most people dont get any benefit from it and it can cause stability problems.
Try it out and see.I leave mine disabled.

 

[dragonhunter]

5- The Radeon cards do support FastWrites and they will work with it on
(on some machines), but it is not recommended, there is NO SPEED gain
when using FW, and this option will affect your PC's stability a LOT,
most game crashes and problems are because FW is enabled.

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

search function is your friend!!


http://www.ocforums.com/search.php?searchid=104267

 

[DaMobster]

Yeah I searched after, and found it... I feel stupid for posting it now... Sorry!

 

[russm]

i just went in and turned off my AGP fastwrite... i liost 1000 points in 3dmark 2001, and 1200 points in 2k3... wtf? no performance gains? i was able to overclock slightly higher, but obviously not high enough to make up for the performance loss

 

[russm]

cancel that... it was something else i found was causing the problem.

 

[bobmanfoo]

IRC the FW option only helps with the older NV cards, i believe it was the TI series

 

[Grov]

I was wondering the same, it's off by default so i leave it off.

 

[Steven4563]

if u play the Winamp visuilations like me ( dont think i spelt that right ) it drops the FPS by about 25 or so on Acidspunk and on 3Dmark2001SE i found i dropped about 500points having it off

 

[ColtIce]

I score about 200pts higher in 3dmark2k3 with FW on.also in NFS:U the short pauses on the first lap are almost nonexistent with it on.although the difference is minimal there is a difference for me.