compare nvidia 6150 config for OTA HD

[horseflesh]

My Sage setup (on the MSI K8NGM2-FID) has been really solid for a while, but I think I have some Windows system decay going on. I have started to see glitches when I watch live (delayed) OTA HD.

I began fixes by upgrading my Nvidia drivers from something in the 80 series to the latest 93.71. But when I did this, performance became very poor. 1080 shows ran at about half the frame rate they should have. Sage basically became unusable.

Here's the weird thing. The nvidia control panel showed my 6150 had 512 MB of RAM. That's nuts, since I have the onboard video RAM set to 128 MB in the BIOS. But I changed that setting to 64 MB and sure enough, the 6150 now thinks it has 256 MB. (As it does if the setting is 32 MB too, but here again performance suffers.)

The older drivers I used always showed video RAM equal to the BIOS setting. Is this expected behavior, and what are the best BIOS settings?

[Steve52]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

My Sage setup (on the MSI K8NGM2-FID) has been really solid for a while, but I think I have some Windows system decay going on. I have started to see glitches when I watch live (delayed) OTA HD.

I began fixes by upgrading my Nvidia drivers from something in the 80 series to the latest 93.71. But when I did this, performance became very poor. 1080 shows ran at about half the frame rate they should have. Sage basically became unusable.

Here's the weird thing. The nvidia control panel showed my 6150 had 512 MB of RAM. That's nuts, since I have the onboard video RAM set to 128 MB in the BIOS. But I changed that setting to 64 MB and sure enough, the 6150 now thinks it has 256 MB. (As it does if the setting is 32 MB too, but here again performance suffers.)

The older drivers I used always showed video RAM equal to the BIOS setting. Is this expected behavior, and what are the best BIOS settings?

Do not use 93.71 forceware! It will not work correctly with your motherboard. You should use the forceware driver version posted on the MSI website for this motherboard. It will likely be an 80 series version. Set the video memory to 128. I don't know your BIOS version but some versions have problems. I am told that the latest version is ok, but I have not tried it. I use 3.11 I believe.

[IncredibleHat]

I'm using 93.71 forceware on the exact same MSI motherboard with absolutly no performance issues. It actually fixed a nasty glitch with 'boxies' that were in all prior 9x.xx series drivers.

MSI is notorious for ancient drivers on their "LiveUpdate" tool... the nvidia drivers being one of them. The release notes for 93.71 state it supports the 6150 onboard GPUs.

However, since you ARE having issues with those drivers, then use driver cleaner, and uninstall them and go back to whatever is posted on MSI. I just wanted to note that I use the same hardware, and have not seen the issues.

[horseflesh]

IncredibleHat, what BIOS version are you running?

Thanks for the input guys.