Difference 4x to 8x?

Yanez · 01-24-2007, 03:04 AM

Well, for some reason my games crash when i set my video card settings to 8X (which is the standard one). After doing a little research i found out that ATI cards dont do good with AMD Athlon processors , or something like that. That only way i can play games with ATI cards is if i set it from 8x to 4x . Can anyone tell me what this does? how much does it affect performance?

**Cromewell** · 01-24-2007, 03:07 AM

Very little. Very few, if any games can use the full bandwidth of AGP 8x

PC eye · 01-24-2007, 03:22 AM

Are you kidding? or trying to oc the card there? I've run more then one ATI card on the last builds with strictly AMD cpus. The only thing known to have problems with gaming at times is the ATI Catalyst Control Center. That's more or less the enhanced software included with ATI cards. This is also used for configuring multiple monitor setups by configuring the extended desktop.

You can easily exit that by right clicking on the icon found in the system tray or uninstall that and run the basic drivers. The main difference between 4x and 8x is the vpu's performance increase seen by doubling the bandwidth of the vga output. If you can't run the card at 8x it can depend on what your board supports.

If you are running an older model with an AGP 2x/4x slot you have to lower the card's setting. The more recent as well as newest model boards support 4x/8x as a standdard for the most part.

Yanez · 01-24-2007, 04:32 AM

I used to have the ATi 9600pro on a compaq computer with celeron and could play with 8x. But when i switched that card to my newer pc with amd athlon 3400 processor, couldnt play games with 8x on. I kept getting the VPU recover thing, so i switched to 4x and it fixed it.

StrangleHold · 01-24-2007, 04:49 AM

Like PC Eye said, it makes no difference between ATI and Nvidia using a AMD processor, could be your AGP driver, try updating your boards chipset driver! What motherboard do you have?

PC eye · 01-24-2007, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yanez

I used to have the ATi 9600pro on a compaq computer with celeron and could play with 8x. But when i switched that card to my newer pc with amd athlon 3400 processor, couldnt play games with 8x on. I kept getting the VPU recover thing, so i switched to 4x and it fixed it.

The vpu recovery is an option in the Catalyst CC that can easily be disabled without reducing the settings for the card. As mentioned earlier that's a software not hardware compatibility problem that has been seen often with different games. One reason why AMD most likely bought out ATI is to correct the goofups known with the different versions of the Cat.

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01-24-2007, 03:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
Yanez Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 41	Difference 4x to 8x? Well, for some reason my games crash when i set my video card settings to 8X (which is the standard one). After doing a little research i found out that ATI cards dont do good with AMD Athlon processors , or something like that. That only way i can play games with ATI cards is if i set it from 8x to 4x . Can anyone tell me what this does? how much does it affect performance?

01-24-2007, 03:07 AM	#2 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 24 Posts: 10,086	Very little. Very few, if any games can use the full bandwidth of AGP 8x __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. I must plug a couple comics because they are good :D: www.ctrlaltdel-online.com www.userfriendly.org

01-24-2007, 04:49 AM	#5 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,088	Like PC Eye said, it makes no difference between ATI and Nvidia using a AMD processor, could be your AGP driver, try updating your boards chipset driver! What motherboard do you have? __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 800 4gb PNY XLR8 8800GT Spinpoint F1 500gb. Too bad stupidity isn't painful.

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01-24-2007, 03:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,226	Are you kidding? or trying to oc the card there? I've run more then one ATI card on the last builds with strictly AMD cpus. The only thing known to have problems with gaming at times is the ATI Catalyst Control Center. That's more or less the enhanced software included with ATI cards. This is also used for configuring multiple monitor setups by configuring the extended desktop. You can easily exit that by right clicking on the icon found in the system tray or uninstall that and run the basic drivers. The main difference between 4x and 8x is the vpu's performance increase seen by doubling the bandwidth of the vga output. If you can't run the card at 8x it can depend on what your board supports. If you are running an older model with an AGP 2x/4x slot you have to lower the card's setting. The more recent as well as newest model boards support 4x/8x as a standdard for the most part.

01-24-2007, 04:32 AM	#4 (permalink)
Yanez Bronze Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 41	I used to have the ATi 9600pro on a compaq computer with celeron and could play with 8x. But when i switched that card to my newer pc with amd athlon 3400 processor, couldnt play games with 8x on. I kept getting the VPU recover thing, so i switched to 4x and it fixed it.