nVidia 12.41 drivers and poor 3DMark2000 performance in Windows 2000

[EglsFly]

I have setup a dual boot on the following system:
Pentium 4 1.5GHz
512MB PC800 Ram
LeadTek GeForce2 Ultra - nVidia reference drivers 12.41
DirectX 7.0

3dMark2000 results:
>Windows ME - 8552
>Windows 2K - 3818

Why such the poor performance in Windows 2K?
Something must be wrong for it to be off by that much!

Any sugestions?

 

[cool]

have you installed any intel .inf-files for the chipset to be recognized properly by Win2K?

 

[EglsFly]

I did install the .inf files, which caused it to crash btw.
Had to do a repair afterwards to get back up and running.

I then installed DirectX 8 and that increased my 3DMark2000 scores by 4000 points!
It went from 3818 to 7824.

 

[LittleChief]

My scores in Win2K are also lower than those Ive seen with others running vitually identical setups but using Me or 98 instead. There not as big a difference as what you got getting EglsFly, but they are consistantly lower, (up to 1000 points difference in 3D2000) . Is this a Win2k problem in general with Mad Onion's Tests?

Is anybody else getting lower scores in 2K than those seen with 98/Me?

 

[12thMan]

I have same GF2MX and WinME, didn't notice a drop in 3DMark2000 with new drivers...very close score for me.

 

[12thMan]

I have similar, with GF2MX and WinME, didn't notice a drop in 3DMark2000 with new drivers...very close score for me.