Thanks for the info Bloodem. I was aware of the problems with VIA's early chipsets and AGP but I wasn't aware that some manufacturers had actually locked 1x into the drivers but that would certainly explain my issue. And for all the talk about the problems, I have been able to get all my systems …

Thanks Paradigital, I have not tried a DFI Mobo. So far I have tried two different Tyan's, Two different Epox, and two different FIC boards. You will need something that tells you the AGP transfer speed. I use SiSoft Sandra 2001 edition. So far all of them show AGP 2x speed until I install the …

I'm running an experiment with VIA MVP3 boards and I have yet to get an MVP3 board to run at AGP 2x with any Matrox card. Let me preface this by letting you know , I don't need to know what cards will work or that early VIA chipsets have problems with AGP, or that there is very little real world …

Thanks Stretch! Sorry for the late reply, I will check that out and see if it works for me. I appreciate your help!

The SB Live! came with the original Liveware, then this was upgraded to Liveware 2.0 and 2.1 and the later cards shipped with Liveware 3.0. Liveware 1 and 2 came with numerous game presets for games that did not support EAX. They removed these presets from Liveware 3.0 and that leads to my question. …