Low performance with 9000Pro 128MB on AMD 1800 system

[AgentTaylor]

I have a question about my video performance. I play UT2003 and Jedi Knight: Outcast. JK runs fine but in UT I have to drop some of my detail levels down and run at 16bit. I am running at about 2 steps down for the max res. (Can?t remember)

I ran 3DMark 2001 SE and only got 6803 with ATI?s 7.76 drivers and DirectX 8.1 (Not 8.1b). Is this what I should expect? The pc runs fine but it seems I should be getting a lot more out of my system. I also see black triangles (Is that tearing?) in during 3DMark. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.


Mobo: IWill 333XP ? R
Video: Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB
RAM: 256MB DDR
CPU: AMD XP 1800+
OS: Win XP SP1

Agent Taylor

 

[Detselom]

Ya i checked your setup on madonion. Ppl with the same set up are getting aprox the same score.

http://service.madonion.com/servlet/Index?pageid=/orb/projectsearch

dont know much about ati drivers but grab the newest catalyst ones. If your video card is overclocked those black things could be artifacts.

 

[rbV5]

If you haven't tweaked your XP333 yet, you can get some serious performance boosts by reading this Thread. Memory bandwidth tweaks and a high FSB really make a huge difference with this board.
Good luck!

 

[WarSong]

not sure which ATI driver you are using, but if you get the Catalyst 2.3s, they give a very significant performance increase.

 

[adrian12]

From what i gather, the R9000 isn't faster than the Ti200.

Only the R9000pro is slightly better.

 

[AgentTaylor]

Thanks.

I am running Catalyst 2.3c. The 7.76 is the build version. I will try some of the XP333 tweaks and see if that helps. I'm not overclocking anything in my system. Any ideas on the artifacts?