Miserable Geforce4 TI4200 64Mb performance

[DarknRahl]

I have an Athlon T-Bird 1.3Ghz with 512Mb SD133 Ram on an Abit KT7. I recently upgrade from a GF2MX to a Leadtek GF4 TI4200 64Mb. At the moment it is overclocked to the speed of a TI4400. I get 5001 3d Marks in 3d Mark 2001 at 1024-800 32 bit colour etc.
Even at low resolutions on BattleField 1942 I get pretty shoddy FPS with medium detail. I have the latest drivers and version of directX. There doesnt seem to have been much of an improvement in performance 8( I bought this video card purely to play BF1942 and I can't play it smoothly unless it looks ugly.
Any help? anyone with a similar system? with some help?

 

[Lizardman]

Hmm.. might just be the rest of your system holding you back. Damn computers and their 6 month upgrade cycles.

 

[Serp86]

i think that your processor is holding you back.

with my P3 1ghz and radeon 9700pro, i can get only 7500 3dmarks(default banchmark). I think that considerimg your card and processor, it is pretty as high as you can go. To really find out the performance gain - compare your marks with the geforce 2 MX. My own GF2MX400 didn't score higher than 900.

 

[nemesismk2]

I can see your problem right away, even with a 1.1ghz Duron and a GF4 MX440 at 1024x768x32bit I still get over 4500 points with 3dmark 2001 se. There is no way that my 2nd computer should be almost beating your 1.3ghz Athlon and a GF4 Ti4200.

The problem isn't your video card or even your cpu, your problem is that your using SDR memory which is seriously limiting the performance of your computer. Even my budget system above is using DDR memory which is why it's performance is so good even though it's using a slower cpu and video card.

I suggest you replace your SDR memory with DDR memory, if your motherboard doesn't support DDR memory then replace it because your GF4 Ti4200 will be wasted if you don't.

 

[Mem]

Have you tried playing it with FSAA off and turn down anisotropic settings? That should help some.

 

[tapir]

There's something else wrong here. My brother's system - 1.3 Duron on a K7SEM mobo, with a GF3 ti200 beats that at 5500 marks or so. The new Durons are roughly = to the old athlons, but the 730S chipset is uses has miserable memory bandwidth. You might want to run some SiSoft sandra tests to make sure everything is performing within spec? you should get something like 700-1000 for memory scores. You might have something in your box underclocked.

I would say 6500-7000 from that system. I know if dropped a GF4 in the system I just mentioned I'd be scoring at least 7000.

 

[Dulanic]

Make sure FSAA isnt on and that AF isnt on, make sure you have the latest chipset drivers. If non of that works you may want to try a fresh install. Even with SDRAM you should still be seeing alot higher scores then you are.

 

[DarknRahl]

Thanks for the advice people.

As I knew I would end up doing I'm goign to re-install windows. As someone else said I was expecting around 6500-7000 3dMarks myself with this upgrade. I just get sick of setting up all my programs that require the registry when I re-format 8)

Oh btw I've been experimenting with the lowest quality settings possible and there is _no_ improvement. The only time I see it get worse is when i use 4x AA or 8x Anistropic filtering. Even when useing 2x AA and 4x Anistropic filtering I don't see any noticible degrade in performance and thats playing at maximum detail settings at 1024-864. Obviously my processor is a bottleneck but either way the fps is dogy.

Thanks again!