new GF4 4400 card...low FPS in RTCW...wtf???

[hudster]

a friend of mine just picked up a Visiontek Geforce4 Ti4400 card today, and is running this RTCW checkpoint demo available on this page. He's only getting around 48 FPS @ 1280x1024, and he's wondering why. He's wondering if he just wasted $300. He just d/l'ed the latest drivers from Visiontek's site. Anyway, Here's the RTCW video settings he's using:

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Video Mode       1280X1024
Color Depth       32 bit
Fullscreen         YES
Lighting             Light Map(high)
Geometric Detail            High
Texture Detail                High
Texture Quality              32 bit
Texture Filter                 Bilinear
Compress Textures        Yes
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any advice?


-hudster

 

[jmitchell]

does he have anti-aliasing turned on/off? That would make a huge difference in frame rate... Also extremely relevant, what are his system specs?

 

[DaiShan]

has he tried updating his chipset drivers? if it is a via chipset he needs the 4 in 1's, sis, sis chipset drivers etc.

 

[tsnyder]

what cpu, motherboard is he using? I was getting 9600 3dmark2001 scores with my Ti4600 using a Shuttle AK31A...now I'm using a Gigabyte board with the same chipset and I get about 6500. That obviosly is pathetic, I can't figure it out cause I can score higher with my Geforce3. This gigabyte board has been nothing but crap... guess that's what I get for buying a refurb board for $65.


System #1
XP 1800+
256MB Crucial PC2100
Shuttle KT266A AK31A
Geforce4 Ti4600
Maxtor 30GB
SB Audigy

System #2
everything the same except for
Gigabyte GA-7VTXH

 

[hudster]

He's got a Micron machine with a Asus CUSL2-C mobo, P3 1GHz, 256MB RAM. Yeah, his card should definitely do better than that, because I ran the same demo on my machine: Abit KT7-RAID, Athlon 900Mhz, 640MB, Visiontek GF3Ti200 video card, and running the same video settings that he did, I got 56 FPS (compared to his 48)