9500 pro and 3dmark03 problems

[J5im8yo]

Ok, I just bought a Visiontek 9500 Pro and when I try to run the battle of Proxycon in 3dmark03 I get anywhere from 0-30 FPS which is barely watchable. Is this acceptable running at 1024x768 and 16x Anistrophic filtering and 8x AA.

 

[J5im8yo]

The result ended up to be 3453 is that a normal score for 3dmark03?

 

[hardwareFan]

Looks good to me, especially with the AA and AF.

 

[J5im8yo]

ok thx

 

[Glitchny]

if u want it to not be a sliude show, take off the aa and af

 

[selfbuilt]

Actually, 3450 is about what you would expected from the Radeon 9500 Pro in 3DMark03 without FSAA or AF turned on (you probably have application preference set, which defaults to off with 3DMark03). I've seen numerous reports for the 9500 Pro without those features on, and they are all in that range if everything is working right. From my own experience, using 2X AA and 8X AF (which is what I run mine at) knocks you down to around 2200 on 3DMark03.

The reason the score is so low is that 3DMark03 is designed to heavily stress graphics cards - no one gets decent frame rates in those games (it's designed more for future cards and future games). 3DMark 2001SE is the more predictive benchmark for current graphic cards on the market.

 

[J5im8yo]

Yea thx that solves my problem and I set all to application preference before getting the result.