Performance Problem

Last-Attacker · Post by **Last-Attacker** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:01

Recently my dad got us a new PC. Its a AMD 2800+ XP, 512-MB DDR 400 and a Gainward GeForce FX 5600 XT.
But I get scores that are unexpectedly low.
Like with UT2004 in the Asbestos Dethmatch level I get like 45-80fps on 800x600 32-bit (Full Game Settings)

Is it supposed to run this slow or is there something wrong? I think it might be that FX card!

EDIT : I do have the latest drivers, BIOS flashes, etc.

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:03

It doesn't seem too low, maybe check if your anisotropic and AA are turned off, they decrease performance a lot.

Last-Attacker · Post by **Last-Attacker** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:07

Yeah, I have AA and AF off. I get a 3DMark2001 Score of Max of 8500 (approx).

Last-Attacker · Post by **Last-Attacker** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:07

Oh, that Gainward GFX runs on 300MHz Core and 400MHz Memory Speed!

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:09

Then your performance seems about right.

Last-Attacker · Post by **Last-Attacker** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:14

How can it be? Shouldn't it run faster? I mean shouldn't I get like a 3DMark2001 score of 10,000 or something. Isn't the FX5600 faster than the GeForce 4Ti?

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:18

Last-Attacker wrote:How can it be? Shouldn't it run faster? I mean shouldn't I get like a 3DMark2001 score of 10,000 or something. Isn't the FX5600 faster than the GeForce 4Ti?

No, not really, the FX5600 is sometimes a little lower in terms of performance, and sometimes just barely on par with the Geforce 4ti series.

Last-Attacker · Post by **Last-Attacker** » 23 Apr 2004, 14:30

Although, I have read in the Lodon PCF edition that the latest nVidia drivers doesn't mean that you gain performance. A guy made a collection of all the drivers made available from nVidia, so the fastest driver is bound to be at his site. Gotta check it out.

Post by **-ASSASSIN-** » 23 Apr 2004, 17:14

As soon as you are done installing and benching about 100 different NVIDIA patches,

please let me know of the result! It would be quite interesting actually!

JEdiWaNNaBE · Post by **JEdiWaNNaBE** » 27 Apr 2004, 21:39

That score sounds a bit low. I get about 60fps on the same map and settings, I also get about 9600 in 3dmark 2001 and my pc is not nearly as good, it's a AMD 2000+ @2.0Ghz, 512Mb DDR-400 and a No name brand ATi Radeon 8500 64Mb. I am running this on the Abit NF7-S which might help a bit

Post by **-ASSASSIN-** » 27 Apr 2004, 22:13

JEdiWaNNaBE wrote:That score sounds a bit low. I get about 60fps on the same map and settings, I also get about 9600 in 3dmark 2001 and my pc is not nearly as good, it's a AMD 2000+ @2.0Ghz, 512Mb DDR-400 and a No name brand ATi Radeon 8500 64Mb. I am running this on the Abit NF7-S which might help a bit

Thats mighty impressive, I though the 8500 score was in the region of 7500-8000 in 3d Mark 2001, and thats the 128 mb version. 8O By how much have you overclocked your card...

halo · Post by **halo** » 28 Apr 2004, 08:30

from the looks of it assassin alot, to get an AMD 2000+ to 2.0Ghz is a very hard thing to do if not impossible, l thought that AMD 2000+ were clocked at 1.7Ghz or so, i may be mistaken.....