Lowest 3D Marks ever! PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Ok, so I have two pretty l337 sounding computers, both with ATI cards, and neither of them are performing up to par!
Main System:
Enermax 431W
ASUS A7n8x-Deluxe
2800+ AMD Barton 333fsb
768MB PC3200 Corsair XMS LLPT
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
Game Theatre XP
Highest 3D Mark 2003 - Approx. 4300
Other System:
300W PSU
Abit A7N
2500+ AMD Barton
512MB PC3200 Corsair XMS LLPT
Radeon 9600XT 128
Highest 3D Mark 2003 - 3272
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??? I hear of people scoring up in the 18000's and I can't even break 5000? PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!
I have been searching and searching and everywhere I go people are like, "Make sure your drivers are installed correctly, blah blah blah." None of the drivers make that big of a difference! I have the latest Cats and the latest NForce drivers and the performance sucks!
Someone has to know what's wrong here! I have tried everything till I'm a nervous wreck and both systems still suck! I'm beginning to believe that it is ATi. These systems were the first one's I've ever experienced ATi's in and I'm beginning to think that this has to be the culprit.
PLEASE!!! I need help!!! I can't go on living this lie!
Main System:
Enermax 431W
ASUS A7n8x-Deluxe
2800+ AMD Barton 333fsb
768MB PC3200 Corsair XMS LLPT
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
Game Theatre XP
Highest 3D Mark 2003 - Approx. 4300
Other System:
300W PSU
Abit A7N
2500+ AMD Barton
512MB PC3200 Corsair XMS LLPT
Radeon 9600XT 128
Highest 3D Mark 2003 - 3272
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE??? I hear of people scoring up in the 18000's and I can't even break 5000? PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!
I have been searching and searching and everywhere I go people are like, "Make sure your drivers are installed correctly, blah blah blah." None of the drivers make that big of a difference! I have the latest Cats and the latest NForce drivers and the performance sucks!
Someone has to know what's wrong here! I have tried everything till I'm a nervous wreck and both systems still suck! I'm beginning to believe that it is ATi. These systems were the first one's I've ever experienced ATi's in and I'm beginning to think that this has to be the culprit.
PLEASE!!! I need help!!! I can't go on living this lie!
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Your scores are about right for 3dmark 2003. The 18000+ scores you are talking about were probably from runs in 3dmark 2001.
I get really crappy game performance in most every game I play. Does anyone have any suggestions???
The scores can be tweeked. Have you delved into advanced setting? Using ATITools or your favorite utility you can change a lot of settings.
Game play issues may also be related to your system.
I presume that you are running XP and that you have fast hdds. Have you played with memory settings?
Make sure you got agp 8x is enabled in the bios. You should be getting mid 5500's on that 1st rig in 3d2003.
Also, the settings are correct. 8x agp, sliders in the middle. Could it be ATi's drivers? I have the latest ones but somewhere I read that they were rewriting the entire opengl coding... Who knows.
If HL2 comes out and I get 40 fps, I'm going back to nVidia cards.