Why is my Kyro2 performing like crap?

KingNowt

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Smuggled a 32MB KyroII out of work (nothing illegal :)) to replace my GeForce2MX, and its performing like a proverbial sack of waste. I know 3DMark2001 isn't supposed to give a good idea of the Kyro, but surely at 800 3dmarks in 1024x768x16 it's having a laugh, especially when my 16MB Voodoo3 2000 on a Celeron 433 gets half that...

To make matters worse, very few of my games run properly on it, Unreal has occassional cosmic textures (throbbing colours) and polygon tearing, System Shock 2 plays like being in a disco with all the textures having various shades of yellow and purple daubed on the walls, Euro2001 football (EA) now tells me there is no CD (is this related?) and Expendable and Deus Ex crash before the first levels load in, to name but a few.
Funny enough, American McGee's Alice goes like hot sh*t in 32bpp and dumps on the GF2 I had, but this is the only game that even runs properly.

I even tried overclocking it, only to 180/180, but it caused all sorts of corruption in 3DMark2001 and eventually locked up on shutdown.

If anyone has any ideas what it's playing at, or if maybe a reinstall is in order, help!!! All tests on Win98 OE, all service packs and stuff in, DirectX8.1 (interim build, only way I could get 3DMark to run) and although it's a VideoLogic unit, I've got the latest Hercules Prophet 4500 drivers (7.111) but this hasn't made any difference to the crappy performance.

-Kev
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gygheyzeus

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May 3, 2001
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The 32MB KyroII is a waste of time. You need to get the 64MB version like I have. You *could* try a reformat to make sure your computer is in top shape and then benchmark again.

I get like 2800 in 3dmark 2001

athlon 1.33ghz
abit kt7a-raid
256mb cas2 crucial ram
hercules 3dprophet 4500
 

powervr2

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Mar 11, 2001
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you will not get better performance from 64 than with 32..

he must have something wrong with their system...

3d cards left (especially voodoo cards) always many strings on windows registry even after an uninstall that could prevent kyro (or even geforce cards) to do well...
we must always do a clean installation of windows after pluging a new 3d card...

of course your problem could be something totally diferent ...
try read this faq:

http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/faq/index.shtml
 

Garet Jax

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Kingnowt,

I second PowerVR's suggestion. There have been a lot of people here who have had troubles with a Kyro II card until they reformatted their system and started again. I know it is a pain, but it seems to solve the problem.
 

Teasy

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Oct 4, 2000
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<<<The 32MB KyroII is a waste of time. You need to get the 64MB version like I have. You *could* try a reformat to make sure your computer is in top shape and then benchmark again.>>>

The 32mb Kyro II isn't a waste of time at all, its the Vivid!XS from Videologic systems (part of IMGTEC) and is half the price of a Geforce 2 GTS 32mb in the U.K and about the same price as a Geforce 2 MX, it has almost exactly the same performance as the 64mb Hercules boards. I have one and its a quality board. KingNowt I've never heard of such wierd problems, I suggest you post this problem in the paraknowya.com hardware forum because thats the best place for getting a solution to this problem.
 

UKtaxman

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I think you'll find that the dodgy textures are due to you enabling texture compression in games that don't support it. Or possibly in games that have it enabled in game.