NEED SOME HELP PLZ

Erik1234

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Apr 24, 2002
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After some great help from all you guys for 3dMark2001 SE, especially the guy who posted able disabling and then re'enabling the Direct 3d Acceleration (IT WORKED!) I have been fiddiling around with the 3dMark test and went on their website. After comparing my score with that of other computers with the same cpu and video card (Atlon XP 1800+ and geforce 3 Ti 200) I noticed that my score was 3000 points lower than the average score of my same setup. I am discouraged cause that is a lot lower and, using the comparison numbers on the madonion site, shows me that I could be getting about 60% more performance than I am. If anything, I expected to get higher than average scores because I overclocked the GPU core clock and memory clock to that of a decently clocked geforce 3 (206 mhz core clock and 458 mhz memory clock). I curently have latest Nvidia drivers (28.32) and I believe I installed the latest Via four in one drivers (v 2.38, right?). I have an epox Kt 266A motherboard with 256 of DDR PC 2100 Ram and am running Windows XP. I Have direct x 8.1. I Disable all background programs when running 3dMark 2001. Whats the matter with the setup thats making my performance so poor?? I do have to note, however, that when i run it there is maximum of 96 megabytes of free Ram just because of Windows XP crap. Also, any help on getting rid of that stuff and ending processes so that i can free up ram but not crash windows would be very helpful also.

Any help, suggestions etc. is most appreciated.
ERIK

PS now gettjng really discouraged cause I dont know whats wrong.. PLZ help!
 

SilverBack

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Oct 10, 1999
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Erik,
Are you running a Gf2?
The GF3 has a vertex shader available.
Regardless of the core clock and memory setting a GF2 can't compete with the extra push from the shaders.
The GF3 runs all the benchmarks as well, where the GF2 can't run, what is it now, 3 of the actual benches?

If you are running a GF3 TI 200, you CAN expect similar results.
Here are some things that might effect your scores:

BIOS:
Turn off video shadowing
Turn off video caching
AGP aperature set to half of system ram

In Nvidia Properties applet
D3D to BEST performance not best visuals
Make sure VSYNC is disabled (you will only see this in the applet if you have in stalled coolbits or use a second party software)
Don't use AA :)