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What would cause a drop like this in 3dMark05??

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Elemennop

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Back when I first built my comp (X800XT, A64 3200+ Winchester, 1gig corsair RAM), it hit 5500 on stock settings on 3dMark05. I recently decided to run 3dMark05 just for the hell of it, and it got something like 3680. Any reason why it would drop like this, and any cure for it?
 
I don't believe AA/AF was disabled; I can't change the settings in 3dMark (downloaded version) so do you mean that AA/AF was disabled in the ATI control panel when I had the 5500? I'm pretty sure I've always set my Vsync so it works depending on the program's preference.

Edit> I used the 4.12 Catalyst drivers for both tests. I'm going to update to 5.2 now.
 
Actually, I haven't run my anti-spyware stuff in a while, so that might actually be hurting me...

but I doubt it would do *that* much damage.
 
Ok, I've run all my adaware/spybot programs and deleted all my spyware, installed the 5.2 catalysts, and set both OpenGL and Direct3D settings all the way to the left to performance instead of quality, and I still only got 3749 on 3dMark05.
 
Yeah I ran it right after I had rebooted the comp and got 3749.

What exactly should I be looking for? I found the MSI Neo2 Platinum nforce 3 system driver (I have the neo2 plat board), is that what will fix the AGP drivers?
 
Have you changed ATI drivers recently? Did you disable your antivirus while installing them (they usually say to do so and, hey, maybe its true that you need to)? If not maybe something got corrupted. I would uninstall the ATI drivers through Add/Remove Programs then use Driver Cleaner to make sure everything is gone and reinstall the latest Catalysts.

I would do this after you install the latest nForce driver's from nVidias site.
 
I did do all of that when I installed the 5.2 drivers, and those didn't help.

Ok, I'll install those nForce drivers and see what happens.
 
Excellent, you guys were right -- the drivers did get screwed. I'm going to assume it happened sometime when I decided to play around with overclocking, and as a result of that whole fiasco they malfunctioned.

Just installed the drivers and ran it on stock settings - 5619.

Edit> 6033 with cpu @2.4ghz and 530/535 core speeds. Very good.
 
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