How to change AGP speed setting on ATI radeon card?

[Tingkai]

Tried all that. Eventually gave up and took it to the shop that did the upgrades (Universal Computers in the Wan Chai computer center). They have a five year warranty on free labor. Will wait and see what they said.

[Auldian]

Originally posted by Konnrade
Intel makes a windows based control panel for overclocking, I'm sure I could probably download it and see if it can allow me to underclock.

If the Intel product will affect your ATI card's GPU and memory clock speeds that'd be useful. I was not referring to your CPU though, just for the sake of clarity, in my post.

I had a GPU fan that became unsecured due to a defective pin on my 1st ATI Radeon. It worked fine with 2D products, but the workload is so high on 3D software that it was only then that I saw the effects of the card's heat. Bands of color, lines, blocks of textures, etc., were the symptom and it did look very bad. Until then, the card had played 3D just fine.

Good luck

[Konnrade]

Well, to be honest I've been frustrated with my system's cooling performance as a whole for a while now. I'm contemplating biting the bullet and buying aftermarket cooling for all of my components and getting more exhaust fans. I've actually even contemplated going to peltier cooling, but I've yet to find an economical peltier system.

Maybe I should just replace my system case. Considering that I've always had cooling issues through 3 different video cards and 2 different motherboards, I may just have a case that wasn't designed to accomodate cooling as a gaming rig.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Tried all that. Eventually gave up and took it to the shop that did the upgrades (Universal Computers in the Wan Chai computer center). They have a five year warranty on free labor. Will wait and see what they said.

Maybe it is a faulty mobo. Rare, but does happen.

The AGP slot on my sister's computer also died a while ago.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Konnrade
Well, to be honest I've been frustrated with my system's cooling performance as a whole for a while now. I'm contemplating biting the bullet and buying aftermarket cooling for all of my components and getting more exhaust fans. I've actually even contemplated going to peltier cooling, but I've yet to find an economical peltier system.

Maybe I should just replace my system case. Considering that I've always had cooling issues through 3 different video cards and 2 different motherboards, I may just have a case that wasn't designed to accomodate cooling as a gaming rig.

You definitely need a big case with lots of opening for fans. You could probably use a custom CPU coolers as well. I am using Cool Master's Ultra Vortex and it works great.

[Lithrim]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Tried all that. Eventually gave up and took it to the shop that did the upgrades (Universal Computers in the Wan Chai computer center). They have a five year warranty on free labor. Will wait and see what they said.

As someone else said. It can be a faulty mobo or graphic card. My last graphic card had the same sickness and I tried everything until I took it back and got a new one of the same model. Everything worked right away. So if you have another comp to test your card on it would probably be good. In that case you can at least rule out a faulty card.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Konnrade
Which settings? there are many of them o.0

IIRC, the settings that are most relevant to Civ 4 are the pixel and vertex shader ones.

[Denny]

Konn,
Going back to the original question:
I don't know if this applies to you, but when i downloaded the latest ATI drivers (to get Civ running nicely) I got the latest version of catalyst (which is the User software for my card at least), In the options in the catalyst software there is a little slider bar to set the AGP speed to whatever you want.
Maybe downloading catalyst will help?