[postal2mac] First impressions

[Jason Harris]

Thanks for clearing that up for us Ben.

-Jay

On 23 May 2004, at 22:03, hotblack wrote:

>
> On 23 May 2004, at 21:40, Cesar Barcenas wrote:
>
>> I thought this was the case also, since I remember
>> there was a mac specific tweak site, that recommended
>> to set the value = to your vram size.
>
> Increasing it may help (up to say 64 or 96) on a card with a large 
> amount of VRAM but as Ryan says, VARSize controls how
> geometry data is cached in AGP memory, that is, the _Size_ of the 
> _Vertex Array Range_, NOT the amount of VRAM you have. If you allocate 
> your entire VRAM to VARSize you could have problems with other data 
> having to be moved around between system memory and VRAM, thus slowing 
> things down.
> There are also some differences between how the PC and the Mac handle 
> AGP memory, so you cannot directly compare the two.
>
> ben
>