XP2400, 512MB PC2100, 128MB 9600XT@AGP4X = 1808 3DMarks?

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I'd been having troble getting 3DMark03 to run (crashes at the demos involving trolls) so I go into the BIOS and disable fast writes, set AGP aperture size to 128MB and the primary video adapter to AGP (a lot of I should've done before I know). Now it works but I can't help but feel the score is rather low. Anybody got any advice or is the performance I should be expecting?
 
JimmehH said:
I'd been having troble getting 3DMark03 to run (crashes at the demos involving trolls) so I go into the BIOS and disable fast writes, set AGP aperture size to 128MB and the primary video adapter to AGP (a lot of I should've done before I know). Now it works but I can't help but feel the score is rather low. Anybody got any advice or is the performance I should be expecting?
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You should really be getting double the scores you are at the moment.
 
Motherboard drivers are OK. Everything looks good on the SmartGART page.

Only I can think of is that I installed the ATI drivers without properly removing the nVidia one's first (I just uninstalled them before I removed the old GF4 MX440).

Think it would be worth uninstalling and using Driver Cleaner to clear out the nVidia and ATI drivers and then reinstall the Catalysts?
 
JimmehH said:
Motherboard drivers are OK. Everything looks good on the SmartGART page.

Only I can think of is that I installed the ATI drivers without properly removing the nVidia one's first (I just uninstalled them before I removed the old GF4 MX440).

Think it would be worth uninstalling and using Driver Cleaner to clear out the nVidia and ATI drivers and then reinstall the Catalysts?
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Yes, do that and that should fix your problem.
 
I'll try that and let you all know how it goes.

I'm sure you're on the edge of your seats :p
 
My score was only 5514, i dont know if thats normal for a p4 2.5ghz, 768 ram, and an ati radeon 9800 pro
 
ive got P4 2.2ghz, 256 PC2100 RAM and Geforce4 MX440... i got about 500 in 3dmark2001 lol... 03 didnt run, but if your running 03.. the score might be right ?
 
kungfucheez said:
My score was only 5514, i dont know if thats normal for a p4 2.5ghz, 768 ram, and an ati radeon 9800 pro
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Sounds about right.
I got 5066 with my Radeon 9700/XP 2500+ (@ 2.24GHz)/1GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM. Shameless flaunting of my score, but I was happy :)
 
1809 3DMarks.

Bloody typical.

Uninstalled and then ran Driver Clean for nVidia and ATI drivers. Even did it with the AIW stuff. Reinstalled exactly the way it says to do.

Hummn. I'm gonna look at that Catalyst tweaking guide and see what I can do.
 
I only get around 2800 on 3dmark03... :|

Yet I get over 23,000 on Aquamark? That doesn't seem consistent.
 
Letters said:
I only get around 2800 on 3dmark03... :|

Yet I get over 23,000 on Aquamark? That doesn't seem consistent.
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What GPU do you have, my good friend?
 
That is quite odd indeed! Which driver revision are you running?
 
I'm using the 4.7 Omega drivers right now... been debating on whether to try the DNA 4.7 ones... .
 
Isn't the 9600xt 128mb card 8x agp? If it is, according to you, it's only at 4x agp which I believe slows it down a lot. Try setting to 8x if your card and mobo support it.
 
Kiva128 said:
Isn't the 9600xt 128mb card 8x agp? If it is, according to you, it's only at 4x agp which I believe slows it down a lot. Try setting to 8x if your card and mobo support it.
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Motherboard doesn't support it unfortunately.
 
Letters, dunno.. never had a problem with omega, but yeah, your 3dmark 03 score is horribly low. Might as well try DNA drivers

The speed difference between 4x and 8x AGP is so negligible, that it's nothing to worry about. 1 or 2 FPS at most.
 
I think I'll try some other benchmarking apps like Aquamark and see how those perform.

Edit: 21873 Aquamarks. How does that compare?
 
Letters - You have a mobility 9700 which means it is based off of a 9600. However, they aren't exact so you may have some variance in you scores. However, a 3DMark score of 2800 is a little low but nothing to be worried about. The 2800 is the low end of a 3DMark 03 score for a 9600 Pro.

As for Aquamark, uses a different scoring system. For this benchmark they take your FPS and multiply it by a 1000 to get your final score. So if I had a score of 22,000, that means my average fps was 22. I don't know what a 9600 (or mobiility 9700) is supposed to score in Aquamark.

JimmeH - What is your clock multiplier and FSB set at for your motherboard? Also what processor core do you have (Thoroughbred or Thorton)?
 
Core: Thoroughbred
Multiplier: 15x (Got those from SiSoft Sandra. Should I restart and check in the BIOS?)
FSB: 166MHz (DRAM) 133MHz (CPU) (Got these values from my jumper settings)
 
"128MB 9600XT, AGP Aperture size 128mb." Isn't the aperture size supposed to be half of your card's memory? I don't know if this will help but maybe you should set that to 64mb.
 
133/33 CPU/PCI Frequency and
4:5 CPU:Memory Frequency Ratio

Edit: 15x Multiplier
 
Well, that elminates your CPU from the problem.

Do you have AA or AF enabled in your ATI control panel?
 
JimmehH said:
Had Temporal AA on. Shall I turn custom settings off?
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Yes, I am 99% sure that is what is dragging down your 3D Mark scores. You are supposed to run those test with AA and AF off.
 
Great, not a bad score. I don't even wanna see what my system would get right now.
 
Well, I compared my result after testing with DNA drivers (which raised my UMark04 test .9 FPS and lowered my 3dMark03 score 3 points to 2859), I find out what I'm getting is pretty normal. :( There are a lot of them higher, but they've overclocked their card's core and memory speeds. Mine are at the very minimum of 392 MHz core and 203 MHz memory for a 9700. Apparently overclocking those to ~450/250 can raise the score like 700 points... 3500ish was the top score for a Pentium M notebook. Haha, overclocking a laptop doesn't seem like a wise thing to do. :rolling:


Anyway, that sucks. I like Aquamark better. It says I can run things at high settings in the future. :)
 
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