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To: Nevyn who wrote (7629)	9/24/1998 12:29:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Respond to of 16960

just ripped this off from voodooextreme... found it pretty interesting. Cheung just let me know that Creative Labs (Asia/Pacific) has posted new Win9x drivers (1.5mb) and a new BIOS flash (416k). Here's a snippet of the BIOS readme file: On the ASUS P2L97 rev. 1.05 and P2L97-DS rev. 1.03 motherboards, the AGP sidebanding bus protocol that allows a graphics card to access system memory in a Direct3D game or application is broken. We provide a patch that disables the sideband protocol and allows Direct3D applications to run normally, with some performance degradation depending on the application. now correct me if i'm wrong, isn't AGP 2x all about sidebanding and being able to transfer data in the sidebands? And correct me if i'm wrong again... isn't AGP2x a "GOOD THING"? if the motherboards can't even implement AGP 2x correctly, how good a thing is it? -b