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Geforce 6800 AGP hardware acceleration in modern browsers?

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First post, by kanecvr

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Hi guys. I built a socket 939 system using a geforce 6800 AGP and I can't seem to get hardware acceleration (gpu acceleration?) to work in google chrome or opera... It works fine on a PCI-E 6600GT, as well as on my AGP x1950xt.

I've tried Forceware 84.21 as well as the latest windows XP driver - 303.something - same result. Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 3, by alexanrs

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NV43 (GeForce 6600GT PCIe) is a newer core than NV40 (GeForce 6800 AGP), so I wouldn't be surprised if the 6800 doesn't support it correctly.

Reply 2 of 3, by kanecvr

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Crap. And I can't find proper win98 drivers for my x1950xt... There were some modded drivers around somewhere but I can't seem to find them anymore...

Reply 3 of 3, by Standard Def Steve

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I wonder if it's somehow just an XP thing?

One of my computers is similar to yours - S939 A64 3700+ @ 2.8GHz, 6800GT AGP, NF3 chipset - except it's running Win7. Chrome seems to be properly accelerated. Nice, smooth scrolling, YouTube HTML5 works fine at 720p fullscreen, and performance with HTML5 animation is relatively smooth as well.

I don't use XP much anymore, but I do recall that the last time I dual-booted this machine, Internet browsers definitely seemed to perform a little better under Win7.

"A little sign-in here, a touch of WiFi there..."

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