What do you think this problem is (GF3 and 3DMark)?

[Techno]

Hi,

Ok i have a Gainward Geforce 3 Golden Sample in a Duron 800 system MB is Epox 8HKA+ 768MB memory. Nothing is overclocked.

When i go into 3DMark (2001 but not SE) The "demo" works perfectly. When i go to bench the thing it goes threw 60% of it fine untill the nature sceen. Now i don't want to say its discolored because its got a bunch of beautiful colors on the screen... its kind of like... well take a sh*t load of colors of paint and then make huge lines everywhere. there isn't any sceens just a choppy wierd "painting of colors" i think it resembles the 1 pass and 3 pass texture bench mark (i think that is the one) later on after it. . It goes threw the nature sceen like that and then finishes the rest of the thing perfectly fine. But the kicker... i can exit out of the nature sceen when it f*cks up and then restart 3dmark all over again and the thing goes 100% perfect!

Any Clue as to whats up?

 

[j@cko]

Perhaps if you give more info would help people to solve your problem?
Which driver are you using?

 

[Techno]

oopss.. sorry i have been away for so long i forgot the info

Win2K Server SP2
Nvidia's 23.11 ref drivers
Nvidia's 1.08 Vivo drivers
VIA 4.37 drivers
onboard sound latest VIA drivers

 

[jcmkk]

Why do you care if 3DMark doesn't run anyway? As long as all of your games run fine, I don't see how it really matters anyway.

 

[Mem]

Don`t know what`s causing it but but what I would do is uninstall 3dmark2001 download and install 3dmark2001SE and run it,you should close programs that run in the background like anti-virus etc and see if it goes through without any problems.They are right, if your games run fine it`s really not a problem.