9800 pro shows improvement!!!!!!!!!

[Gothgar]

I have the 9800 pro but I stil around 60 FPS, and drops to low 40's with tons of enemies/explosions, but I do have a A64 3400...

still should make a huge difference from the mx400 or what ever peice of crap you said it was...

 

[imported_Zeke]

yep driver clean has been done, nothing there, currently formating the machine...twice....so I'll let you know if it works tommarow, thanks for all the suggestions guys

 

[Regs]

I got around 5-6k in 3dMark 03'with a over clocked 9800p and a 2500+ Barton CPU (on a old KT333). So it should be ok.

Your friend should bench some games.

 

[gtd2000]

This might simply be a case of the CPU to GPU scalability.

It is quite normal to get negligible results from far higher spec graphics cards when using the same system.

Some people are quoting 30fps averages on high end CPUs which is in all honesty a fairly shyte frame rate for FPS gaming.

I have played the Doom 3 demo on my Emachines m6810 and it is pretty bloody awful really. Put it this way - I won't be running out to buy the full game.

 

[dug777]

quote:
This might simply be a case of the CPU to GPU scalability.

It is quite normal to get negligible results from far higher spec graphics cards when using the same system.

Some people are quoting 30fps averages on high end CPUs which is in all honesty a fairly shyte frame rate for FPS gaming.

I have played the Doom 3 demo on my Emachines m6810 and it is pretty bloody awful really. Put it this way - I won't be running out to buy the full game.

Yes but not from a frickin jump from a gf4mx420 to a 9800 pro- and neone who says otherwise is talking BS 😛

and a quote here from a review of an emachines m6810

'Graphics on the M6810 used to be first rate but have since slipped. It is still powered by the ATI Mobility 9600 with 64MB of memory. This allows for acceptable support of DirectX 9 based games, but the speed drops off quickly with higher resolutions.'

There's an example of a top notch processor (for a laptop neway), with a pretty average kard (i saw about 1800 3dmarks on 03 quoted for that machine- i get low-mid 5000s on my 'crappy' 2600+ with my 9800 pro and 512mb 😛), i guess that you could get away with 800*600 medium if you were lucky~ doesnt even come close to the performance a 9800 pro gives you in any halfway decent set-up (and guess what, 512mb and a mid-low 2ghz intel(or amd xp equivalent), are what many people seem very happy to pair their 9800 pro with)- not sure whether u r bagging d3 for the gameplay and content, or simply the very average d3 experience you would have on that machine 😛

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: Zeke
we're not talkinga bout someone with any tech knowledge or cash.......so you really thing thats all cpu?

I can't beleive he has no improvement when moving to the 9800 pro :Q

You say he is not knowlegeable. So, to ask a (potentially) stupid question, has he gone into game settings and upped them?

If he is the type that installs a game and lets it autodetect, rather than adjusting the settings himself, the settings may be too low to see the graphical glory of the 9800 pro.

An MX > 9800 pro and no improvement? Bah, that makes no scence whatsoever.

 

[imported_Zeke]

well lets put it this way, its not that it dosent look good, its that its unplayable, from what I understand sounds like under 10 fps

 

[imported_Zeke]

BIG NEWS GUYS! after a format painkiller works, and doom 3 works...still waiting on UT install....so this appears to be fixed, thanks so mcuh for all the help 🙂

 

[erikistired]

well that's good to hear.

 

[dug777]

whoo hoo- hope he's a happy camper now- know i was when i did that upgrade 🙂

 

[PrayForDeath]

His 3DMark03 score is good since I got 4500 with my 2Gh Celery and 5500 with my 2800+ AXP using a 9800Pro, so his P42.3 should be in the middle.
Anyway, I am glad he got his problem solved, but I just wanna ask, is he running dual channel? Cuz I heard running single channel on a P4 severely cripples its speed.

 

[imported_Zeke]

I have no idea if hes runnig dual channel but I doubt it, pretty sure it one stick

 

[oldman420]

memory will help much on this system and cpu upgrade time also.