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[Mike]

ATI Radeon 9700
AMD ATHLON XP 2500 BARTON
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
512MB HYPERX

Why are my 3DMARK 2001 SE scores at 5612? I looked at that and laughed
my ass off. But then I got serious when I couldnt figure out why it
gave me such a slow score. When I'm watching the games play, the fps
usually stay just below 60 but never go above. Even though it says
fps=50-60, the screen kinda jerks. It will move regular then slow down
a little then go regular again. All the while there are plenty of FPS
showing on the counter and on the screen. When I play Max Payne 2, the
fps are always very very high and I notice no slow downs whatsoever.
However, when I play Homeworld 2, the gameplay runs pretty fast but
the movies and cutscenes jerk in the same manner as 3DMARK 2001 SE.
What is going on here? Every driver I know of is up to date. ATI 3.10,
DirectX 9. Rolling back doesnt fix it seemingly. Let me know if you
want my system information file or something else. My new email
address is (e-mail address removed) (dont use
(e-mail address removed)). Thank you to anyone who helps!

Michael

 

[Shawk]

ATI Radeon 9700
AMD ATHLON XP 2500 BARTON
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
512MB HYPERX

Why are my 3DMARK 2001 SE scores at 5612? I looked at that and laughed
my ass off. But then I got serious when I couldnt figure out why it
gave me such a slow score. When I'm watching the games play, the fps
usually stay just below 60 but never go above. Even though it says
fps=50-60, the screen kinda jerks. It will move regular then slow down
a little then go regular again. All the while there are plenty of FPS
showing on the counter and on the screen. When I play Max Payne 2, the
fps are always very very high and I notice no slow downs whatsoever.
However, when I play Homeworld 2, the gameplay runs pretty fast but
the movies and cutscenes jerk in the same manner as 3DMARK 2001 SE.
What is going on here? Every driver I know of is up to date. ATI 3.10,
DirectX 9. Rolling back doesnt fix it seemingly. Let me know if you
want my system information file or something else. My new email
address is (e-mail address removed) (dont use
(e-mail address removed)). Thank you to anyone who helps!

Michael

Mile,

Just benchmarked mine tonight (for a comparison when I fit new mobo, memory
and CPU) so I KNOW you should be at least double that.

Have you run DXDiag yet? What does that say? Is this a new card install or
has the PC been configured like that for a while?

Shawk

XP2100
A7V8X
512M PC2700
Sapphire 9600 Pro
Win XP Pro

 

[Crom]

Mile,

Just benchmarked mine tonight (for a comparison when I fit new mobo, memory
and CPU) so I KNOW you should be at least double that.

Have you run DXDiag yet? What does that say? Is this a new card install or
has the PC been configured like that for a while?

Shawk

XP2100
A7V8X
512M PC2700
Sapphire 9600 Pro
Win XP Pro

hi

is this a new pc build? My pc is a similar spec and I'm getting around
11000.
In the bios - are you using the correct multiplier settings - when I built
my pc the bios swithed to processor default which was 1400MHz.
Once I put in the correct setting my 3dmark jumped to 11000.

cheers

 

[Mike]

hi

is this a new pc build? My pc is a similar spec and I'm getting around
11000.
In the bios - are you using the correct multiplier settings - when I built
my pc the bios swithed to processor default which was 1400MHz.
Once I put in the correct setting my 3dmark jumped to 11000.

cheers

Dxdiag says 9.0b.... all system specs match. All the tests work just
fine and smooth. My bios came with 1100Mhz by default but I increased
it to 166x11 which is what it is supposed to be at. I have overclocked
it to 200x11 before with no problems... but I only kept it at that for
a short time just to see if it would work. The problem I'm having
seems to be happening whether its overclocked or not. This computer is
a new build. I built the whole thing myself using parts that I ordered
online. Everything went pretty smooth. Graphics in newer games work
really fast with no weirdness at all (such as max payne 2). In other
games, I see these horizontal rolling lines. It looks like the refresh
rate on my monitor doesnt match the refresh rate of the video card or
something. The horizontal lines are most noticable when textures are
up close and moving horizontally... I see breaking lines (lines
without color that seem to unmatch the top and bottom). In a game
called homeworld2, the fps are really high and the lines do not show.
However, when textures move horizontally, they seem to jump a little.
This is regardless of how many polygons are in view or how high the
texture resolution is that is in view. Doesnt seem to be a bawging
down issue, more of a corruption issue. The problem that I just
explained seemed to happen in the views that 3dmark showed during the
tests. No horizontal lines, but textures moving horizontally seemed to
slow down then go back to normal speed again all while maintaining a
steady frame rate. Hard to explain. Any ideas? Feel free to write a
couple of detailed pages if you want! Thanks all,

Michael


BTW, I have noticed those horizontal lines on other ATI cards (such as
a 9600 pro 128 8xagp) in different computers at my work. The
studdering with horizontal textures is unique as far as I know though.

 

[Andrew]

Why are my 3DMARK 2001 SE scores at 5612? I looked at that and laughed
my ass off.

Whenever I get crap benchmark scores its usually because I forget to
disable FSAA&AF before running it.

 

[Mike]

Whenever I get crap benchmark scores its usually because I forget to
disable FSAA&AF before running it.

I ran it again with FSAA&AF off for sure and I got the same score
exactly. The funny thing is, the fps usually always display the same
amount for each test (except one). The terminator test with the
missile pickup truck on low detail displayed just under 60 fps
consistently. When it ran the same one only on high detail, the fps
showed just the same as previously. I noticed that with all of the 3d
tests. I think windows xp limits the frame rate at 60 because my
monitor is at 60hz. I am thinking that the 3dmark program is detecting
that studder I was talking about and that is why im getting low
scores. It is effecting its internal score calculating algorithm
thingamobob. Maybe the 3dmark is also scoring me badly because it
thinks 60fps on those tests is not worthy of a higher score. Anybody
have anymore ideas? Thanks!

Michael J

 

[Andrew]

I ran it again with FSAA&AF off for sure and I got the same score
exactly. The funny thing is, the fps usually always display the same
amount for each test (except one). The terminator test with the
missile pickup truck on low detail displayed just under 60 fps
consistently.

You have V-Sync enabled. Disable it and your scores will go way up.