8792 2001 3dMarks with 9700 Pro + 2100XP?!

**xDUCK** · 04-24-2003, 02:59 AM

Hey everyone,

I've run 3DMark2001 several times now - the first time I ran it was right after I installed it, and I got something over 12,000, nearing 13,000 (see my rig in sig). Now when I run it, though, I got 8792 (and other tests hover inside the 8xxx range! What the hell went wrong?! I remember tweaking some minor settings in the Advanced display properties, but what could possibly account for a 4000 (50%!) point drop?

Help!

Thanks,
Mike

**Tasiin** · 04-24-2003, 03:09 AM

Make sure both Anisotropic Filtering and Anti Aliasing are set to Application Preference, other than that I have no idea what could have caused such a huge drop.

**Thunderbird1GHz** · 04-24-2003, 03:13 AM

you probably accidentally enabled 4x fsaa. if not o man that sucks so bad, I would cry if I were you

**speedstream5621** · 04-24-2003, 09:48 AM

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you probably accidentally enabled 4x fsaa. if not o man that sucks so bad, I would cry if I were you

I just want to quote this so that everyone can read it. I won't comment, just quote.(face collapses into keyboard)

You...nervmind

Quote:

I've run 3DMark2001 several times now - the first time I ran it was right after I installed it, and I got something over 12,000, nearing 13,000 (see my rig in sig). Now when I run it, though, I got 8792 (and other tests hover inside the 8xxx range! What the hell went wrong?! I remember tweaking some minor settings in the Advanced display properties, but what could possibly account for a 4000 (50%!) point drop?

Hmmm, a 50% drop would be about 6,500, but I got what you meant. Turn all of the details to "highest peformance" or whatever denotes the fastest. Try and make 3DMark look as ugly as possible without going into software mode. Turn off AA, Aniso, Trueform, etc. The best thing to do would be getting Rage3DTweak. They have a profile for 3DMark01 in there and that gave me my score of 9034.

**Doomah** · 04-24-2003, 10:42 AM

Well ... something like that happened with me once. I screwed around with something in Rivatuner and it ended up severly limiting my fill rates (which in turn, kept my 3dm01 score around 6000'ish). All I did was reset to the driver defaults and all was well.

Maybe reinstall your drivers?

**xDUCK** · 04-24-2003, 12:54 PM

Eureka! All better. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6380084

I'm not sure what fixed it (I had tried Rage3DTweak before, so I dont think that was it). I think it may have been my AGP Aperature size (in BIOS). Had no idea it made that much of a difference

.

Thanks, it's all good now!

**goatsnuts** · 04-24-2003, 03:10 PM

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Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
you probably accidentally enabled 4x fsaa. if not o man that sucks so bad, I would cry if I were you

And you wonder why you get flamed.

You are a prize tit my friend.

**KaoTiK** · 04-24-2003, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by goatsnuts

And you wonder why you get flamed.

You are a prize tit my friend.

haha, now amount of lols or rofls could account for the laughter this causes me

**Mancora** · 04-24-2003, 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by xDUCK
Eureka! All better. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6380084

I'm not sure what fixed it (I had tried Rage3DTweak before, so I dont think that was it). I think it may have been my AGP Aperature size (in BIOS). Had no idea it made that much of a difference .

Thanks, it's all good now!

Im not sure it is the pature size, if i understand the apiture correctly its for use when your video card uses all of its memory and still needs more, so it grabs the system ram. I tend not to think 3dmark is going to use all 128mb of your card.

Alientank · 04-24-2003, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
you probably accidentally enabled 4x fsaa. if not o man that sucks so bad, I would cry if I were you

God I wish I was a mod.

**Colossus** · 04-24-2003, 05:29 PM

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Originally posted by goatsnuts

And you wonder why you get flamed.

You are a prize tit my friend.

ROFL,

I would check to see if your drivers are configured correctly

Turn off all IQ

**goatsnuts** · 04-24-2003, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by Alientank

God I wish I was a mod.

Nice to see that the laughter I gave others has been returned to me in kind

As for you Mike, I can only imagine what the other guys have said, that AA or AF is enabled, and also vsynch.

Good luck

**BremenCulhaven** · 04-24-2003, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by xDUCK
Hey everyone,

I've run 3DMark2001 several times now - the first time I ran it was right after I installed it, and I got something over 12,000, nearing 13,000 (see my rig in sig). Now when I run it, though, I got 8792 (and other tests hover inside the 8xxx range! What the hell went wrong?! I remember tweaking some minor settings in the Advanced display properties, but what could possibly account for a 4000 (50%!) point drop?

Help!

Thanks,
Mike

Yep, that is pretty bad for your rig.

I get those scores with my rig.

BC

04-24-2003, 02:59 AM	#1
xDUCK Hammerhead Shark Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 2,992	8792 2001 3dMarks with 9700 Pro + 2100XP?! Hey everyone, I've run 3DMark2001 several times now - the first time I ran it was right after I installed it, and I got something over 12,000, nearing 13,000 (see my rig in sig). Now when I run it, though, I got 8792 (and other tests hover inside the 8xxx range! What the hell went wrong?! I remember tweaking some minor settings in the Advanced display properties, but what could possibly account for a 4000 (50%!) point drop? Help! Thanks, Mike __________________ Anything's Hot Swappable if you're fast enough. Owner of zeroBel.com. [ My rig ] 24/7: 260FSBx9.5 CPU Interface Enabled 1:1 2-2-2-11 (2.0v VDD, 3.4v Vdimm) NF7-S rev2.0 C1 d10 / 2500+ AQXEA SPMW "9" "27" / 256mb KHX3200 (BH-5) + 2x256mb Corsair 3200LL (also BH-5) / 80gb/7200/2mb IBM Deskstar / 80gb/7200/8mb Seagate SATA / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 / 22" NEC FP2141-BK / Sennheiser HD570 Sharky Extreme 3DMark Team Official member of the Big_Mac-is-generous club!

04-24-2003, 10:42 AM	#5
Doomah Tiger Shark Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 934	Well ... something like that happened with me once. I screwed around with something in Rivatuner and it ended up severly limiting my fill rates (which in turn, kept my 3dm01 score around 6000'ish). All I did was reset to the driver defaults and all was well. Maybe reinstall your drivers? __________________ "PS 3.0 utilizes a wide range of optimizations, from 64-bit frame-buffer blending to looping and dynamic conditionals for rendering multiple light interactions in a single pass without requiring a combinatorical explosion of precompiled shaders." -Tim Sweeney DNF > HL2

04-24-2003, 12:54 PM	#6
xDUCK Hammerhead Shark Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 2,992	Eureka! All better. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6380084 I'm not sure what fixed it (I had tried Rage3DTweak before, so I dont think that was it). I think it may have been my AGP Aperature size (in BIOS). Had no idea it made that much of a difference . Thanks, it's all good now! __________________ Anything's Hot Swappable if you're fast enough. Owner of zeroBel.com. [ My rig ] 24/7: 260FSBx9.5 CPU Interface Enabled 1:1 2-2-2-11 (2.0v VDD, 3.4v Vdimm) NF7-S rev2.0 C1 d10 / 2500+ AQXEA SPMW "9" "27" / 256mb KHX3200 (BH-5) + 2x256mb Corsair 3200LL (also BH-5) / 80gb/7200/2mb IBM Deskstar / 80gb/7200/8mb Seagate SATA / ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 / 22" NEC FP2141-BK / Sennheiser HD570 Sharky Extreme 3DMark Team Official member of the Big_Mac-is-generous club!

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04-24-2003, 03:09 AM	#2
Tasiin Catfish Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 239	Make sure both Anisotropic Filtering and Anti Aliasing are set to Application Preference, other than that I have no idea what could have caused such a huge drop.