9600 xt score

[badguy106]

Im a little new to all this and was wondering if you guys could check out my 3dmark score and tell me if its any good.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...guy106/sdmarkscore.jpg

Thanks alot.

 

[badguy106]

I made some changes and my score got better. Look good, or do you think I can get better than this?

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...uy106/3dmarkscore2.jpg

 

[badguy106]

anyone?

 

[dguy6789]

I dont think so to be honest. My 9600 Pro was getting 3700-3800 at stock speeds. Are you using the latest ATI drivers? I had an Athlon XP 2600 back then, so that may have helped.

 

[badguy106]

Well, I was running the most current, 4.1 driver, i think is what it was from the ati website, but was having problems with NFS underground freezing. So I went back to the driver that came on the cd, 6.14.10.6444. I didnt have the freezing trouble until I updated to the 4.1 driver. I tried reducing all the settings and it still froze while playing. I have been reading where it suggest turning off the AA and AF features, but cant find where to turn them off. I did find where I could reduce them both to 2x, so I did that. Also turned off VPU recover and error report, read where that may help. I have never had an ati card and dont know much about setting it up, so any help would be great. I also read where the 2590 beta omega drivers work well, but havent tried them.

 

[dguy6789]

Open your case, and put a house fan next to your video card, have it run full blast. Play your game for a while, if it does not freeze, then its a temp problem, if it does, it could be driver related.

 

[badguy106]

Not running hot, 34c. Installed 4.12 beta driver, problem gone. ATI sux, wish I would have stayed with nvidia. I have had more trouble with this one ati card than any of the other 3 nvidia cards I own. Thanks for the help dguy, I appreciate it.

 

[Sylvanas]

"have been reading where it suggest turning off the AA and AF features, but cant find where to turn them off." right click your desktop then go properties, then go to the end tab. from there you can alter alter of settings.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: badguy106
Im a little new to all this and was wondering if you guys could check out my 3dmark score and tell me if its any good.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...guy106/sdmarkscore.jpg

Thanks alot.

Your original score was abit low but the recent score you posted is okay. Before I gave the pc below to my little brother here was my 3dmark 03 score (btw none of the hardware was overclocked):-

xp2500
asrock sis746fx motherboard
sapphire radeon 9600 xt

3DMark03 Score 3899 3DMarks

GT1 - Wings of Fury 133 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 25 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair 23 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature 24

CPU Tests

CPU Score 497 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 55 fps
CPU Test 2 9 fps

Feature Tests

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1001 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1883 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 13 fps
Pixel Shader 34 fps
Ragtroll 16 fps

 

[badguy106]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas
"have been reading where it suggest turning off the AA and AF features, but cant find where to turn them off." right click your desktop then go properties, then go to the end tab. from there you can alter alter of settings.

hmm, I still dont see where I can turn these 2 settings "off". If I go into the 3d settings I have an option to reduce each of them, but not to disable.


nemesismk2, thanks for verifying. the first score was with fast writes off, AA set @ 2x, AF set @ 8x. the second score was with fast writes on, and AA and AF set to program specifies. I would'nt think changing these would make that big of a difference, but it sure did.