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Upgraded from TI 4200 to 6600GT, no improvement??

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grandnat

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I just upgraded from an MSI TI 4200 AGP video card to an evga 6600GT AGP card in my system. The system is an Asus A7n8x, AMD 2100 thoroughbred and 1 Gig corsair PC3200 xms memory. I primarily use the system for playing the Papyrus Nascar Racing 2003 game. When I ran the game on the old video card I got 72 fps. After installing the new video card I repeated the same test in the game and got 70 fps. I'm wondering why there was no noticable improvement with the new video card?

I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers for the video card and installed the latest drivers from their website and still saw no noticable change. I also ran the 3Dmark demo and got a score of 3600, but I do not have a score with my old card to compare to. So far I'm pretty dissapointed in the new card seeing as I got no improvement from it.

I'd appreciate any thoughts on why there was no change and any advice on what I may be missing?

Thanks,
Rob
 
Sounds like the Ti4200 already maxed out Nascar... 72 seems like your monitor's refresh rate is holding it there. Same with 70.

Norm
 
Test both cards with Antialiasing or Anisotropic filtering. You may be cpu limited at your current resolution. The 6600GT should spank that old Ti card. You are a little low on cpu power.
 
Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Sounds like the Ti4200 already maxed out Nascar... 72 seems like your monitor's refresh rate is holding it there. Same with 70.

Norm
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I'm pretty sure I can go higher than 72 fps in nascar. Plenty of people have seen over 120fps... When you say the refresh rate is is holding it there, do you mean a refresh rate of 75hz will limit me to 75 fps? I never thought about something like that. I'm actually pretty sure I have the refresh rate set to 85 hz currently....

Also, if it's a cpu limitation, should I be able to turn on Antialiasing or Anisotropic filtering and maintain the same fps? I'll have to playu around some more today after work.

V-sync should be off but I'll double check later.

Thanks again,
Rob
 
It might be that or something else, I don't know. I do remember my fps in DoD being locked at 70 when I got a 6600GT, I blamed it on vsync or refresh rate being maxed out.

But 3600 in 3dmark05 seems perfectly fine for a 6600GT... so your card is fine. I think it's more of a software or cpu limitation. Ram is fine too, 1gb of 3200.

Norm
 
Originally posted by: cevilgenius
It might be that or something else, I don't know. I do remember my fps in DoD being locked at 70 when I got a 6600GT, I blamed it on vsync or refresh rate being maxed out.

But 3600 in 3dmark05 seems perfectly fine for a 6600GT... so your card is fine. I think it's more of a software or cpu limitation. Ram is fine too, 1gb of 3200.

Norm
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One more thing I should mention, when I get the 72 fps I'm sittting in the car alone on the track in the game. When I start a race with 36 other cars my fps drops to about 50. I had the same drop to 50 fps with the old TI 4200 card also, so it's actually not an issue with it being maxed out at 72fps. It seems i get the same performance from both cards....

Any other advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob
 
What resolution are you running at? This sounds a lot like your old XP 2100 is bottlenecking you a little bit. You have a much better video card than did. Do you have any other games you play?
 
i remember my p4 1.7 was bottlenecking my 9800 pro <-- (my first real video card besides my 4mb trident and integrated graphics)
 
I'm running at 1280x1024 @ 32bit. I'll have to try and OC the cpu and see if it helps the fps in the game any. I used to have this setup running at 2075mhz or so and it was pretty stable, but I set everything back to stock speeds since I didn't need any more at the time. Unfotunately, with the A7N8x MB I have I'm pretty limited in processor upgrade options. I have an older revision of the MB that won't support the Sempron processors...

-Rob
 
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