Ati Question

[BAM]

some one told me that fastwrite should be off on ati cards. shall iturn it off and what does fastwrite do ??

 

[zeddy]

You can enable fast writes on certain radeons, but it is not reckoned to give mush of a perfromance boost (supposed to seed up some GPU functions like buffering textures ) and can lead to instability, not just with ATI cards, it also is not compatible with certain motherboard chipsets.

 

[BAM]

You can enable fast writes on certain radeons, but it is not reckoned to give mush of a perfromance boost (supposed to seed up some GPU functions like buffering textures ) and can lead to instability, not just with ATI cards, it also is not compatible with certain motherboard chipsets.

so its better to keep it off ??

 

[zeddy]

Yup!

 

[BAM]

do you get better performance if itis on/off ?

 

[zeddy]

I would suggest if you want to try it run 3dmark with it off and then with it on and see what the difference is.

 

[Fastlane247]

How do i turn off fastwrite.... should i do it in bios aswell as in the windows propeties?? thanks

 

[zeddy]

Go to the smartgart box on your advanced display properties - it should show you there if its enabled or not.