Some Help Please - Horrible Benchmarks with Geforce 2 GTS 32 meg

[Brian07]

Ok, I don't really benchmark my video card that much, so I wasn't really up to par with what to expect when I downloaded 3dmark2000 1.1. I ran through the default bench marks and came out with a score of 2289, which I found is horrible while comparing others results. Here is my machine specs

Duron 600 oc'ed to 900
Abit KT7 non raid
256 megs -7 PC133
Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS 32 meg 7.17 drivers
Creative sound card
Adaptec 2940 UW
Seagate Barracuda 7,200 9.1 gig scsi drive
Plex 8/20 and 40 ultra combo.
I have my bios set to 4 way interleave, memory is clocked by spd, I run Win ME on this machine and I just recently installed DX8

My 3d benchmark settings were as follows
1024*768, 16 bit color, 32 bit textures
16-bit-z-buffer triple frame buffer
Using D3D Hardware T&L Optimizations

If anyone can give me a clue please feel free. If you need more information just let me know that to. Thanks!

Brian

 

[jsbush]

Did you install Via's 4 in 1 drivers?

You can find them here and here!

 

[Brian07]

I have the 4.24's installed, I'll give the 4.25's a shot and see if it improves. Thanks!

Brian

 

[Actaeon]

where you get 3dmark at?

 

[Brian07]

4.25's pushed me to 2317, not even close to where I should be. Any other ideas? I guess I'll try different drivers, but I don't think a different version will cripple me this much.

I got 3dmark2000 from here Download.com

 

[snow patrol]

How about games. 3dmark can't always be trusted.

How are actual games running (quake 3 etc?)

 

[Brian07]

They seem fine, but I haven't ran any benchmarks at all ... Got any suggestions as benchmarks to run/download?

 

[BFG10K]

Don't worry about 3DMark. You're much better off benchmarking real-world games such as Quake 3.