Configuration for my Creative geforce2 GTS

[yihyoonl]

HI ,

I recently setup my system:

AMD thunderbird 900MHZ
Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 GeForce2 GTS
IBM 75GXP 30 gig
ABIT KT7_RAID
128MB Mushkin PC 133 Memory


I did a benchmark test using 3DMARK 2000 and my score is 2586 3D marks.

I noticed that the score is relatively low compare to some of the reviews out there. I am not overclocking the video card. Do I need to configure/tweak the setting (either in BIOS or anywhereelse) that I need to change to fully utilize the card?

I did install the latest reference driver, detonator 3.

Any advise would be great

 

[tboo]

Did you install the VIA 4in1 drivers, specifically the AGP driver?

 

[yihyoonl]

Yes I just did before the benchmark test. How do I make sure my system is using 4X AGP mode?

 

[yihyoonl]

This doesn't look too good does it?


CPU AMD Athlon 900MHz

3D Accelerator 3D Blaster Annihilator 2

Chipset NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS

Resolution 800*600*16

Z-Buffer Depth 16-bit

Frame Buffer Triple

Refresh Rate V Sync.Off

CPU Optimization D3D Hardware T&L





3DMark Result 2589 3D marks

CPU Speed 122 CPU 3D marks

Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 70.92 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 36.24 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 8.09 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 47.90 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 33.26 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 19.36 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 581.37 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1174.87 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 Light) 473 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 475 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 474 KTriangles/s

8MB Texture Rendering Speed 444.46 FPS

16MB Texture Rendering Speed 317.29 FPS

32MB Texture Rendering Speed 164.11 FPS

64MB Texture Rendering Speed Not Supported

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass) 258.88 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass) 368.33 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass) 613.51 FPS

Bump Mapping (Environment) Not Supported

Published No

 

[Lark888]

I don't have answers, but I'll second the question. I had similar result running Final Reality - actually got better rates with my overclocked CL TNT2 (non-ultra) than with CL GeForce 2 GTS. I'm sure I have some leftover drivers messing up the card somewhere but havn't found them yet. I may format and reload windumb again. Lark

 

[tboo]

I have a KA7-100/Athlon 1gig and a Prophet 2 32mb and the 6.18 drivers-with these drivers I cant run in 4Xagp/fastwrites without major problems so I run in 2Xagp and even then I get 6600 3dmarks in 3dmark2000-so enabling fastwrites probably wont help much. I remember similair posts like yours at the BBS at AMDZone-might want to check out the posts there-www.amdzone.com

 

[Lark888]

Ok, so now I know the problem. Needed to enable the USB support part of W95/OSR2. Went from 3DMark scores of 2395 to 6584 by installing the USB support to fully engage the AGP stuff. No amount of changing drivers (CL or Reference, 5.32, 6.18, 6.31, etc) made any difference before this step. If you are running W95, this is most likely your problem as well. I believe that the USB is already "active" in W98's default installation. Hope this helps you. If you had enabled a profile, I would have e-mailed this info. Lark

 

[Bartman39]

I think Lark888 is right on the money (buddy had the same problem) but I seem to remember someone posting about "depth queqe???" being set to a higher # not to 1 or something like that... Sorry I dont have a MB that has setting now...