BIOS setting

newguy5

newguy5

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i have a pci-e geforce 7600gt but my bios defaulted my "primary graphics adatper" to "pci vga" in the "pci plug and play" portion of the bios. i switched it over to "pci-e vga" but now when i played far cry i got some strange discoloration in the game. is it supposed to be on pci vga instead of pci-e vga?
 
You want the bios setting to be correct for the type of card installed. The memory aperature setting in the advanced chipset or advanced peripherals section can be lowered to the standard 64mb setting if needed. But you may simply be seeing a driver not bios problem. Have you updated the drivers for the card since installation?
 
PC eye said:
You want the bios setting to be correct for the type of card installed. The memory aperature setting in the advanced chipset or advanced peripherals section can be lowered to the standard 64mb setting if needed. But you may simply be seeing a driver not bios problem. Have you updated the drivers for the card since installation?
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yes, i updated drivers. once i switched it back to pci vga from pci-e vga, the discoloration went away entirely. but i know the card is a pci-e card. i don't know what to do?
 
well the video card manual says to leave the bios settings at default. the weird thing is that at default it's running at pci vga, not pci-e vga. furthermore, it's using 128MB of my 1024 available RAM for a "shared memory" or something. i know that's being used for the video card now because when i changed the pci vga to pci-e vga, i then had the full 1024 MB of RAM, not 896 MB. the pci-e vga didn't make the graphics look any better, although there was an added discoloration.

i'm really, really confused as to what's going on. can anyone explain this to me?
 
You can look to see if the option to lower the vga aperature to the minimum in the advanced settings is there. What make and model board is this on?
 
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