1 Year Performance Drop-off

[jglaysher]

I ran 3dm 2000 in Jan '01 and acheived a v. satistfactory 5342.
The other day I was playing Unreal with all enhancements turned up (never been a problem before) and it was totally unplayable.

I then ran 3dm 2000 again (12/01) and acheived the ****-poor mark of 1816.

I have not added/changed any h/ware and I reinstalled the Nvidia driver for the GC - .649. All to no avail.

The card is not clocked.

Is the card partially broken or chocking back somehow? All suggestions would be welcome.

Apologies for the double post.

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NVIDIA GeForce DDR
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 1000MHz
ASUS A7V mobo
Win ME

[TrojanPunisher]

i would get the 22.50 drives or around that area the 23.11 decreased my score a lot of win Me and athlon 1.4

[DocEvi1]

you should be re-installing your OS every so often. I heard a good idea was to get "Ghost", create a complete backup of your HDD (from a clean install), then you can quickly return your Puter to its original state.

Stefan

[Jimstep]

There is a shareware floating around that will remove all detonator files that the uninstall process will not clean up. I can't think of the name of it right now and my lan is down where I keep that information.

Also, chipset drivers will effect performance, but you said you haven't changed anything.

[TrojanPunisher]

detonator destroyer i use that whenever i want new drivers

[Ammok]

It is a good idea to defragment your drive as well. I have not heard of a fragmented drive having such a high degree of loss, but if you been using it intensively for a year and not done a defrag, maybe...