AGP driver problems ..

[corkie]

Hello VIA,

I am having heavy problems getting to run a amd64 3500+ , asus a8v deluxe , asus x800 pro.

My games tottaly play bad it feels like it doesnt even use the AGP and that it plays in PCI ..
I tested playing in like PCI when my SMARTGART said no AGP 8X fast write and all those was disabled and it played the same like it is used. It just keeps running in PCI even if I disable all AGP settings it plays the same it doesnt use agp settings [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

In my device stuff for agp it says :GAGP30KX.sys but also PCI.sys, so what i think my pc keeps using the pci.sys and not GAGP30KX.sys (not sure though it just what I think) [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]

now I readed that theres alot of problems with AGP drivers and such.

Here is how i installed the computer from a fresh format.

I installed win XP SP2

after that I used 4in1_449p3 wich i downloaded from the Asus site for my mobo .. I installed both the IDE and inf file. after that there wasnt even a agp driver anymore on my computer even the default one from
microsoft was gone that was the first problem.

So now my question is for my computer and stuff how should i install stuff from scratch and what AGP driver and what mobo drivers? since my feeling is it aint normal if u install the mobo drivers and untick the AGP driver that it deletes the windows one

Thank u verry much.

[Frager]

Its not VIA its ati driver.
Use ati catalyst 7.7

7.8 7.9 and for some 7.10 have an agp bug.


Go read more info at : www.rage3d.com

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: corkie
after that I used 4in1_449p3 wich i downloaded from the Asus site for my mobo .. I installed both the IDE and inf file. after that there wasnt even a agp driver anymore on my computer even the default one from
microsoft was gone that was the first problem.

So now my question is for my computer and stuff how should i install stuff from scratch and what AGP driver and what mobo drivers?

Do exactly what you did before, except use the latest 4-in-1 driver instead of the one from ASUS:

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver..._HyperionPro_V514A.zip

[corkie]

Should I use the agp driver from service pack 2 or should I use the one from the latest VIA drivers?
And also what exactly from the package should I install.

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: corkie
Should I use the agp driver from service pack 2 or should I use the one from the latest VIA drivers?

GAGP30KX is the correct AGP driver for AMD64, provided by Microsoft. PCI.sys will also be co-installed for the AGP controller. This is normal (and required).

And also what exactly from the package should I install?

Well that is the sixty-four thousand dollar question, isn't it?

Given VIA's chronic driver quality issues, I tend to stick with what I have found to work and do not deviate from it no matter if new drivers are released, unless some new problem crops up that would lead me to question whether a newer driver is required.

On XP SP2, I will install only the Chipset INF from the Hyperion package - nothing else. After a restart, I then install the last version of the VIA PATA/SATA IDE Driver that I have found to be stable, which is version 1.60A:

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver...0a(20061101140444).zip (restart after install is complete)

To date, I have not encountered any problems with that combination. However, I rarely utilize RAID and never utilize SATA hot-plugging, so it is possible this combination may not be sufficient for RAID setups. The PATA/SATA 1.60A driver does enable SATA hot-plug support, but since I never utilize this feature, I wouldn't have encountered any problems if there was a bug or flaw in that feature which might have been fixed in a newer version of the PATA/SATA driver (which was merged with the VIA IDE Falcon Storage driver after 1.60A).

That's all the advice I can offer you.

[Michel Merlin]

AGP driver problems .. >
How do I uninstall and reupdate my VIA drivers?
(moved here from How do I uninstall and reupdate my VIA drivers?)

tcsenter, you seem to know what I need, that I explained in Chronological List of Recent Hyperion Pro Driver Packs please (initially posted on ViaArena Chronological... please):

• how do I properly (clean) uninstall the (at least 2, probably 3) VIA packages I previously installed?
• for the VIA package and IDE driver, should I select the Hyperion 5.14A (with INF V3.00A) and the VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.20A? or the Hyperion 4in1 4.56v and the VIA PATA/SATA IDE Driver 1.60A?
• in the VIA package chosen, how do I select the proper INF (there are most often a high number of them, scattered in many different folders)? Then, how do I install just that proper INF, and nothing else?

TIA,

Versailles, Sat 1 Dec 2007 13:37:20 +0100, moved by TkArena ~1 Jan 2008, repaired by MM on Thu 17 Jan 2008 16:45:00 +0100