its not a bad score, but it is worthwhile using the compare feature to see what other people are getting with the same setup, obviously those that oc will have higher, but there be a large bunch in the middle who run at stock, and you can compare your scores with those.
You shouldn't have had to install DX9 because of a game as no game that I know of even requires it. Besides that though, I installed it as well and have had no problems... somthing I can't say about going from DX7 to DX8 (problems). But that was then, and those problems were resolved. Try un and re-installing the video card drivers as well....(like you never thought of that already... )
Freelancer? Really? Gotta check that out. Hope I'm not getting behind the curve .
I don't see why installing DX9 would be a bad idea as DirectX is backwards compatible and DX9 has some optimizations over DX8.1 (apparently... I haven't noticed anything).
P4, 2.66 GHz, 512k L2, retail box w/ retail HSF
Abit SR7-8X, rev 1.0 [only revision there is, I believe] -
SiS 648 chipset, BIOS is 1st release (un-upgraded)
512 MB of Samsung CL2.5 PC-2700 DDR (1 module)
Sapphire Radeon 8500LE 128mb, 250/225* (core/mem)
*I was under the impression most Radeon 8500s were by default clocked at 275/275 and that Radeon 8500LEs were by default clocked at 250/250. Well this one came at 250/200 and is unstable at 250/250. Feh!
Anyway...
9050 3D marks
[edit: video now @ 275/225, stable - 9350 3D Marks]
I've swapped out my nVidia Geforce2 MX200 for a brandy-new ATI Radeon 9700 Pro.
My old score running 1024x768x32 was 1361. The new score is 9783!!!
Talk about a HUGE jump!! I'm very psyched. With 4x FSAA running, I still score 7902. Pretty good from all I can gather.
But now then....What can I do to tweak this even higher (not that I'm not EXTREMELY pleased... UT2K3 looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G when set at 1024x768x32 and with high or highest details!! I'd just like to see what more I can do...). I'll list my specs below and maybe someone can give me some advice. There's a new processor in my coming future, probably a Northwood P4 2.4, so bear that in mind when checking my specs out. You should also probably consider that I'm *not* running fast-writes, though my MOBO can support it if I flash my bios. At this time, I've read too many conflicting reports to trust the fast-writes.
Thanks for all advice in advance.
MSI 645 Ultra Mainboard w/400Watt PS
P4 1.6GHz (Willy, I think)
1.02 GB PC2100 DDR
40GB 7200RPM Seagate HD
ATI RADEON 9700 PRO w/ Catalyst 3.1
Creative Labs Audigy Gamer
Yamaha CRW2200E
Win98SE running DirectX 8.1
-Mr. Underhill.
Last edited by Mr. Underhill; 03-16-2003 at 10:37 AM.
they have a menu on far left and it says "Find a driver" click on that and then 9700 Pro, Win 98, agree to there small print and save or open as you see fit.
Rig 1, MSI K9A2 Platinum, 6400 Blackie, 2 X 2048 AData, MSI 3870; Rig 2, MSI K9A2 CF, 5000 Blackie, 2 X 1024 Patriot PC6400, ATI X1900 XT, Rig 3, Abit AN8 Fatal1ty, Opteron 185, 2 X 1024 Corsair PC3200C2PT ATI X1950 XTX Rig 4 Abit UL8 3800 X850 Pro
What??? How is that posible? My system owns yours!
AMD ATHLON XP 1900+
Sapphire Radeon 9500 non pro ~RED BOARD~ 128 meg @ 355/310 using Rage3D
CATALYST 3.1
256 MB PC2100 DDR RAM CL 2.5
ECS k7s5a
Window XP Home SP1
3DMARK2001 SE score = 10,400
Originally posted by pandaz3 With the Cat 3.2's I got
10287
XP 2100+, 9500 Pro at 330/290, AMD 761 Chipset (266 FSB), 768 PC2100 CL 2.5
Untill I got the 3.2's I was limited to 295/290. I will try a little more GPU speed, but the Memory won't go higher. It is an ATI Card with Infineon Memory and I did flash the BIOS, but nothing else, I am using Rivatuner to OC it. If I can get more I will be happy, but this is okay too. BTW is your CPU OC'd. I have a Gigabyte 7DXR board.
Rig 1, MSI K9A2 Platinum, 6400 Blackie, 2 X 2048 AData, MSI 3870; Rig 2, MSI K9A2 CF, 5000 Blackie, 2 X 1024 Patriot PC6400, ATI X1900 XT, Rig 3, Abit AN8 Fatal1ty, Opteron 185, 2 X 1024 Corsair PC3200C2PT ATI X1950 XTX Rig 4 Abit UL8 3800 X850 Pro
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