agp not pci-e

**flyguyspy** · June 5th, 2007, 08:55 AM

im having trouble with a game, civilization 4.
i think the problem may be that my AGP gfx card is labelled as being PCI-E in my harware profile.
would anyone know how to change this?

**DanU** · June 5th, 2007, 01:49 PM

Have you updated your motherboard's chipset drivers?

What about your video card drivers?

**RicheemxX** · June 5th, 2007, 02:27 PM

*Moved to appropriate forum*

Which motherboard and gfx card do you have?

**flyguyspy** · June 5th, 2007, 04:37 PM

well i have a dell dimension 4600.
its a 2.8 ghz processor, i have 1.25 gigs of ram, and a 6800 gs (agp of course).
is there a program or something i can use to tell me what kind of motherboard it is?

**flyguyspy** · June 5th, 2007, 04:39 PM

i have updated my gfx driver, direct x, all that.
looking into mobo now

**ShyguyXPC** · June 5th, 2007, 11:19 PM

well what kind of trouble are you having with your game first, & what makes you think its related to the card showing up as PCI-E instead of AGP?

**carl33p** · June 5th, 2007, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by flyguyspy

is there a program or something i can use to tell me what kind of motherboard it is?

Everest Home Edition can tell you that, and quite a bit more.

**flyguyspy** · June 6th, 2007, 10:10 AM

well, ok, the glitch: about 15 turns into the game, gfx get buggy and it freezes up, and crashes my pc.
i think this could be the reason becuase in a civ 4 faq i was reading, one person claimed that fixing the pci-e/agp problem was what did it for him. the reason being becuase the card can't to 4x or 8x mode.
i updated my chipset, but the card still comes up as pci-e in my hardware profile!
ARG I"D RATHER BUY A NEW FRIGGIN RIG THEN WORK MY ARSE OFF TRYING TO GET THIS WORKING!!!!
but of course thats not a great option...