3d mark scores down by ALOT

[shocksyde]

all of a sudden my 3d mark scores have gone from 4800 to 1600. my setup is athlon 700, 3d prophet geforce2 mx, 128 mb pc100 ram. all i did was disable fast write and 4x agp to give more stability in mtv music generator and this happened. so i re-enabled these in bios but the scores remain the same...what in the world happened??? i have detonator 6.31 drivers installed, i even did a fresh install. i even have the card overclocked to 195/210. (and yes i tried to set the clocks on the card to default to see if that was the problem, and it wasnt)

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[seti]

have other benchmarks dropped as well?

[shocksyde]

i havent checked any other benchmarks. but unreal runs really choppy and ran great before.

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[shocksyde]

well i just ran the q3a demo and it ran at 70 fps with all details on. so i dont get it, quake works great but unreal doesnt?

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[AuraEdge]

The only common link I see is that quake runs on OpenGL and 3DMark's and Unreal run on Direct3D. When you say fresh install, do you mean your windows too? if so, did you forget to install the latest DirectX?

[shocksyde]

nah when i said fresh install i meant the d3 drivers. is there a way to use opengl in unreal? i dont see an option anywhere. should i switch it from direct3d to something else for unreal? there are several options it gives me when i try to change the video setup , including "software acceleration" or something to that effect.

but anyways, why would it all of a sudden not work correctly? worked great (extremely smooth and good framerates) a day ago, but now it's choppy as a chinese iron chef! (you'd have to watch the food network to understand that comment http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif)

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[shocksyde]

i have fixed the problem. i had to go into add/remove programs and remove the nvidia drivers from there, then reinstall them...worked great!

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