Enabling Fast-Write

Sandra Report:

< AGP Bus >
Version: 2.00
Max Data Transfer Rate: 4x
Side Band Enabled: No
Side Band Support: Yes
Fast-Writes Enabled: No
Fast-Writes Support: Yes
Aperture Size: 64MB

I ran the sandra benchmark(freeware version) few weeks ago. Its says that "fast-write" is not enabled, does someone knows how to enable it?

For fast writes to work it has to be enabled with both the drivers and in the bios. Check to see if its enabled in the bios. If it is then it could be an issue with motherboard drivers or vid card drivers. Good luck

I'd say check our updated NVIDIA guide buts its not yet
Download NVMax at http://nvmax.com & in the System -> AGP menu be sure that Fast Writes setting is Ticked in black (not grey). You'd probably be better off enabling Sidebands though.

Geforcefaq

Fast Writes and Geforce 2's

Question....is fast writes enabled by default on Geforce 2's? I remember one of the biggest selling points of my GTS was that it had "4xAGP and Fast writes". When I would install the drivers and check it with WCPUID it would say that Fast writes was enabled. This was as long as I made sure I had it enabled in the bios.

Doesn't the Mobo have to support fastwrites?
I have a GF2 MX400 on an Intel SE440BX mobo and from my understanding my vid card supports fastwrites but not SBA but my Mobo supports SBA but not fastwrites.

p.s. I had this anyways.
Until this

Just downloaded the NVmax, a cool program!
Its an article or detail about optimum settings on nVIDIA Cards by using this tool?

Yup, well posted now. You can use another other utility either of course Geforce Tweak Utility or well, whatever the others are as they all should do the exact same stuff. I just prefer NVmax basically.

Not that fast writes make a great deal of difference - maybe only 1-2fps, or a few 3d Marks.

If you want to squeeze every last bit of performance though enable them, but they can cause instability.

Imo fast writes r very inestable when u oerclock and it's not worth enabling them, it's better to have a game working at 90 fps than having it about to lock up at 92

What does fast write do anyway?

Very complex 3D-objects and geometry requires the CPU to transfer a huge amount of triangle-data to the graphics chip. Normally the CPU would have to travel through the memory to get to the graphics chip. Fast-writes allow the CPU to send triangle-data directly to the graphics chip.

Oh ok I get it.