Geforce 2 gts with abit kt7 raid, crappy performance

jape

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Sep 2, 2000
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system: Windows ME (tried win 2k too, same deal), athlon 750 t'bird, 3com 10/100 network adapter, old SB awe32 (ISA) and winTV go tuner.

drivers: detonator 3 (tried older ones too, doesnt help)

3D mark 2000, score: 2200 (!!)

I should get score well above 6000 (i think)

Any known incompatibly issues with kt7?

BTW, 3D mark says geforce2 doenst support enviroment mapped bump mapping. is this true, or is my drivers messed up?
 

SilverBack

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Actually my 3D Prophet 2 GTS Box says Hecules in a large box, upper right. Guillemont is a small 1 inch square.

Where to start,
In your BIOS do these things.
Turn off video shadowing
Turn off video memory caching
Turn on AGP, or assign an IRQ to video-Auto
Set AGP aperature to 64mb
What memory do you have?
If it's PC100 make sure you are running it at timings of 2,2,2 ( if it's quality ram)
If its PC133 make sure you enable the memory at 100( host clk) + 33.
Most but not all PC133 is CAS 3 BTW.

Download PCIList from www.entechtaiwan.com , this will help you trouble shoot your video card. Shared IRQ's are BAD for Nvidia cards.
Run the program and post your results here.

Go to www.viatech.com and download the newest 4-1 drivers for your motherboard. Also on that page is an updated AGP driver, I think it's 4.03d now. Run the 4-1 first and reboot, then install the AGP drivers.
Put the AGP driver in a temp directory as it decompresses into a bunch of files. I'm sure you don't want these on your desktop :p

Add the coolbits registry entry so that you can disable vsync. You can find the settings after installation at :
right mouse click on desk top, properties,
go to settings
go to advanced
go to geforce 2 gts tab
go to opengl and D3D tabs and disable vsync ( in opengl enable page flip in flipping mode, trust me )
Here is a link to the registry entry
http://www.3dchipset.com/utilities/nvidia/files/coolbits.reg
Just double click it from wherever you downloaded it to.

If these don't help ( I think they will ) Give me a holler :)
 

Lowen

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Download WCPUID and use it to verify that you have actually enabled AGP 4X. The new Nvidia drivers have an issue with this.

Lowen
 

jape

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Couple issues found. PCI List tells that latency is 248 PCI clks and agp aperture 256 MB (set to 64MB in bios), and agp 4x not supported (enabled in bios)

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CPU speed - 749 MHz
DirectX - initialized
AGP revision - 2.00
VGA IRQ - IRQ10, not shared
AGP aperture - 256MB
System board AGP transfer support - n/a
Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x
AGP traffic currently enabled - n/a
System board SBA - n/a
Graphics card SBA - n/a
AGP sideband currently enabled - no
Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 32
Fast write protocol - supported, currently enabled

Devices:
VIA CPU bridge (03051106h)
VIA PCI bridge (83051106h)
VIA ISA bridge (06861106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA CPU bridge (30571106h) - disabled
Brooktree video device (036E109Eh) - IRQ11
Brooktree multimedia device (0878109Eh) - IRQ11
3Com Ethernet controller (905510B7h) - IRQ11
Nvidia VGA controller (015010DEh) - IRQ10
 

SilverBack

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Jape the Nvidia cards "normally" use IRQ 11. YOu definately have a problem there with the other cards sharing that many IRQ's.
Try moving your NIC card to slot 4 or 5 ( I don't have a KT7, I'm guessing at placement. )
BTW PCIList does not report VIA chipsets correctly yet for agp information. WCPUID does however if you chaeck that. PCIList is great for showing resource conflicts.
here is mine,

CPU speed - 1010 MHz
DirectX - not initialized
AGP revision - 2.00
VGA IRQ - IRQ11, not shared
AGP aperture - 256MB
System board AGP transfer support - n/a
Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x, 4x
AGP traffic currently enabled - n/a
System board SBA - n/a
Graphics card SBA - n/a
AGP sideband currently enabled - no
Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 32
Fast write protocol - supported, currently n/a

Devices:
VIA CPU bridge (03051106h)
VIA PCI bridge (83051106h)
VIA ISA bridge (06861106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h) - IRQ15
VIA USB (30381106h) - IRQ3
VIA CPU bridge (30571106h) - disabled
Creative Labs audio device (00021102h) - IRQ4
Creative Labs input controller (70021102h)
Realtek Ethernet controller (813910ECh) - IRQ10
Promise mass storage controller (0D30105Ah) - disabled
Nvidia VGA controller (015010DEh) - IRQ11
 

jape

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Sep 2, 2000
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I think my mainboard is just too new and bios still buggy. If i install newest 4 in 1 drivers from via, my display is messed up when i boot to windows. When i uninstall those via drivers in safe mode everything runs just fine (hmm, 'fine' might not be right word here :)

Gotta go and change cards to different PCI slots, if that helps..

[ WCPUID Ver.2.6d (c) 1996-99 By H.Oda! ]

<< AGP Chip set Info. >>

Chip-set Device : 1106 0305
Chip-set Revision : 02
AGP Revision : 2.0
AGP Operations : Enable

Data Transfer Rate
Supported : 1x 2x
Current : 2x

Side band addressing : Disable
Aperture Size : 64MB

-------- -------- -------- --------
03051106 22100006 06000002 00000000
000000C0
0020C002 1F000213 00000112 0010026B
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
 

jape

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Sep 2, 2000
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Now we are talking: 3D mark 2000 - 5929 3D marks :)

Thanks for your help.

Noticed (when machine is booted, and it shows list of irq:s etc)that theres 'ACPI device' using irq 11, changed nvidia to irq 9 and everything started working just fine.

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CPU speed - 750 MHz
DirectX - initialized
AGP revision - 2.00
VGA IRQ - IRQ9, not shared
AGP aperture - 256MB
System board AGP transfer support - n/a
Graphics card AGP transfer support - 1x, 2x
AGP traffic currently enabled - n/a
System board SBA - n/a
Graphics card SBA - n/a
AGP sideband currently enabled - no
Pipelined transactions - supported, queue depth of 32
Fast write protocol - supported, currently enabled

Devices:
VIA CPU bridge (03051106h)
VIA PCI bridge (83051106h)
VIA ISA bridge (06861106h)
VIA IDE controller (05711106h)
VIA CPU bridge (30571106h) - disabled
Brooktree video device (036E109Eh) - IRQ5
Brooktree multimedia device (0878109Eh) - IRQ5
3Com Ethernet controller (905510B7h) - IRQ10
Nvidia VGA controller (015010DEh) - IRQ9