TERRIBLE 3dMark2k1 SCORE! HELP ME!

[UncleRonnie]

I have a Radeon 8500le (Made by ati) its clocked at 250/250/ just popped in HyperX PC3000, and an XP2100 o/ced at 2230 mhz. My score is MAD LOW! its 2891 to be exact.... any ideas? I know mine AGP is set at 2x, will this really affect performance? i am also running Cat 3.1's. Thanks.
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[Thor86]

Originally posted by: UncleRonnie
I have a Radeon 8500le (Made by ati) its clocked at 250/250/ just popped in HyperX PC3000, and an XP2100 o/ced at 2230 mhz. My score is MAD LOW! its 2891 to be exact.... any ideas? I know mine AGP is set at 2x, will this really affect performance? i am also running Cat 3.1's. Thanks.
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What screen resolution and colour depths are you running the benchmarks with?

 

[UncleRonnie]

I am running 1024 by 768--- 32 bit color---Compressed Textures---- d3d pure hardware t&l---NO AA....Thanks

 

[AtomicDude512]

WHy APG 2x? Thats killing you! If your video card and mobo can do it set it to AGP 4x.

 

[Jmman]

Ouch, I score 12,000 with my TI4200....... Just wait until I get my Radeon 9800..... 20,000 baby!!

 

[UncleRonnie]

I set it to 4x and its not much better....any one help ,me?
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[ChampionAtTufshop]

difference between 2x and 4x isnt gona be much
why?
cuz while we've already gone to 8x agp, we werent even using 4x to its capacity lol

anwyays, did yo install the mobo drivers?

 

[UncleRonnie]

yes i did indeed install the drivers.....
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[rommelrommel]

Do you have anything running in the background? I'm getting 13000+ right now, but if I even have MBM5 or anything significant running on the task bar I'll drop down to like 5000ish...

 

[hoov]

I have the same problem !! when I first installed 3dmark and patch and overclocked my rig got 13000 and after awhile messing with overclock settings and installing different benchmark & testing software it droped to 6000. I think its buggy as hell myself, and not very acurate. or trustworthy

 

[CraigRT]

I'd be willing to bet it's an improper driver/software install.

It's important to install everything correctly in the right order during the OS first time setup.. I've seen that cause this type of problem more than once before. I could be wrong, but my guess is some driver/software issues.

 

[Richdog]

I agree with the improper driver installation view, the only way to be certain that its going to work flawlessly is to re-format and re-install, making sure ALL the drivers are the latest versions. Even with AGP 2x the scores should be WAY higher than that. Something looks terribly wrong...

 

[rommelrommel]

Something that bugs me about 3dmark is the reviews that use in and seem to accept a few hundred point difference as evidence that one card is better than another. Hell, my results fluxuate by about 300 points, so I don't see how accurate it can really be... I don't think it's capable of detecting 5% differences really.

 

[Barrei]

gotta be drivers

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: rommelrommel
Something that bugs me about 3dmark is the reviews that use in and seem to accept a few hundred point difference as evidence that one card is better than another. Hell, my results fluxuate by about 300 points, so I don't see how accurate it can really be... I don't think it's capable of detecting 5% differences really.

yeah i konw
like with geforce fx vs 9700pro
difference in most is liek a couple hundred at best in favor of te 9700pro and at times with the gffx

i think they might make a few runs and take the average of each run (at leats thats how id do it..)

on topic:
reformat/reinstall drivers
dd you have nvidia before, or was it strictly ati since the last format/installation of windows?

 

[Jgtdragon]

Do you have anything running in the background? I'm getting 13000+ right now, but if I even have MBM5 or anything significant running on the task bar I'll drop down to like 5000ish...

WTF? haha

Seriously, reinstall the OS and driver.

 

[rommelrommel]

Originally posted by: Jgtdragon

Do you have anything running in the background? I'm getting 13000+ right now, but if I even have MBM5 or anything significant running on the task bar I'll drop down to like 5000ish...

WTF? haha

Seriously, reinstall the OS and driver.

Why's that funny? It's what happens. This stupid nuke and pave knee jerk reaction is what's funny to me. It takes me a while to get everything the way I want it, and I don't have ghost or anything, so I try to avoid formatting and reinstalling whenever possible. It was an honest attempt to help someone. What would we say if we took our cars to the mechanic and he said "I'm not exactly sure what's wrong, but I'm just gonna tear the car apart and reassemble it, that should fix everything."

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: rommelrommel

Originally posted by: Jgtdragon

Do you have anything running in the background? I'm getting 13000+ right now, but if I even have MBM5 or anything significant running on the task bar I'll drop down to like 5000ish...

WTF? haha

Seriously, reinstall the OS and driver.

Why's that funny? It's what happens. This stupid nuke and pave knee jerk reaction is what's funny to me. It takes me a while to get everything the way I want it, and I don't have ghost or anything, so I try to avoid formatting and reinstalling whenever possible. It was an honest attempt to help someone. What would we say if we took our cars to the mechanic and he said "I'm not exactly sure what's wrong, but I'm just gonna tear the car apart and reassemble it, that should fix everything."

i think he meant that as in its a weird occurance
i admit it does happen, but not very often
having a program open is something different alltogether

but driver conflicts/other crap does happen
only way to recover would be to completely wipe the drivers from the hd (manually find the files that get left behind i suppose if that possible) or just format

btw, ghosting wont help either
it will just copy the files over so when you rexpand the image onto the hd, its pretty much jsut the same setup
i just backup the files and wahtnot i need on another partition/hd and just format c: and reinstall