Graphics offical aquamark3 thread

make sure you have all of the latest drivers, disable anything like norton that may be running in the background, clean up the startup group using msconfig, what do u get for cpu/gfx individually?

 

I'd bet it is you don't have your Motherboard/AGP driver installed.

 

I probably don't. MY mobo didn't come with drivers for anything, they totally ****ed me over on that and free norton that was supposed to come with it.

Where should I install those drivers to? System32?

 

what motherboard do you have? just install the intel ifn update utility, it'll sort everything out, update your catalyst drivers after installing dx9b

 

The mobo is in my profile.. I just installed the chipset driver and my tests scores still didn't go up. I'm not even running anything...

 

have a look in the super-pi thread on the hardware forum, in one of bigz's posts he links to a few xp tune-up guides

 

I'm scoring 6000's in 3DMark03 and thats pretty good, but im scoring low in this, i dont think i should worry about it...

 

3dmark is no true test (neither is aquamark, but its more accurate)

 

3dMark 03 is more of a graphics limted test, CPU is only a very small component.

Aquamark is much more host limited (CPU/MOBO/RAM) and Graphics limited so you see gains in both areras.

 

but when they change the way it interacts with the nVidia drivers, it kind of loses any sort of validity it had... all of a sudden with the new build, nVidia based cards lose 10% of their score... I know ATi cards are better at running directX 9.0 games in a very crude broad sense, but you can't just change a benchmark to fall inline with every other benchmark around, they've tried to hide their inability to code a "fair" benchmark, which has backfired on themselves rather heavily... shame on FM.

I just hope their next release of 3DMark is much fairer test...

bring back the days of 3DMark2001SE (I know it's an old test, and is very "system" dependant, but it's a pretty fair test)

 

The FM 340 patch, blocked the nvidia static clip planes (does not help performance, only there to cheat the rolling bench score) and blocked shader replacements cheats in nvidia FX drivers.

All they did is stop nvidia trying to make 3dmark do less work on there cards, as benchmarks are about running a fair (apples to apples comparision), it seems perfecly reasonable to make 3Dmark 03 more fair in workload.

I feel futuremark have *gained* respect from developers, graphics vendors and driver writers.

 

I installed my chipset drivers and I'm in the 40'000's now

 

Ok, this is from my blazingly fast Retro Media Center (link to mod log in sig)!!!



Results:

Run0:
DisplayWidth: 1024
DisplayHeight: 768
DisplayDepth: 32
AntialiasingMode: 0
AntialiasingQuality: 0
AnisotropicFiltering: 4
DetailLevel: 4
AvgFPS: 0.100701
MinFPS: 0.021908
MaxFPS: 0.978485
AvgFPSRender: 0.101172
AvgFPSSimulation: 21.631498
AvgTrianglesPerSecond: 46660
MinTrianglesPerSecond: 83690
MaxTrianglesPerSecond: 1882456
AquamarkScoreRender: 9
AquamarkScoreSimulation: 1081
AquamarkScore: 100

Computer stats:

Processor:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Name: Pentium(R) II processor
SpeedMHz: 232
Type: 0
Family: 6
Model: 3
Stepping: 3
Flags: 0x0080F9FF
Number: 1
HyperThreading: n/a
MemoryOS: 133746688

Graphics:
Description: Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE
Vendor: 4098
Device: 20825
SubSys: 541660300
Revision: 0
CoreClock: 149
MemoryClock: 149
Driver: ati2dvag.dll
DriverVersion: 6.13.10.6200
VideoMemory: 34603008
TextureMemory: 25165824

OperatingSystem:
Version: Microsoft Windows 2000
Type:
Build: Service Pack 4 2195

Beat That! BTW, it took MORE THAN 9 hours to run through one test!




Ok, enough of that, now for my main rig, Red Sonja (it's the one in my sig):

Processor:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Name: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
SpeedMHz: 1740
Type: 0
Family: 6
Model: 8
Stepping: 1
Flags: 0xC1C3FBFF
Number: 1
HyperThreading: n/a
MemoryOS: 267894784

Graphics:
Description: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Vendor: 4318
Device: 802
SubSys: 0
Revision: 161
CoreClock: 250
MemoryClock: 266
Driver: nv4_disp.dll
DriverVersion: 6.14.10.5216
VideoMemory: 134217728
TextureMemory: 152043520

OperatingSystem:
Version: Microsoft Windows XP
Type:
Build: 2600

Run0:
DisplayWidth: 1024
DisplayHeight: 768
DisplayDepth: 32
AntialiasingMode: 0
AntialiasingQuality: 0
AnisotropicFiltering: 4
DetailLevel: 4
AvgFPS: 6.042243
MinFPS: 1.752862
MaxFPS: 18.718941
AvgFPSRender: 6.505548
AvgFPSSimulation: 84.824310
AvgTrianglesPerSecond: 1818909
MinTrianglesPerSecond: 278301
MaxTrianglesPerSecond: 6745889
AquamarkScoreRender: 651
AquamarkScoreSimulation: 4242
AquamarkScore: 6042


Not all that great no, but considering the hardware, it ain't that bad. And btw, both are air cooled, retro media center is extremely cool (room temp), and Red Sonja runs at a stable 43c/109f ([edit] at the cpu[/edit]).

 

2500+stock,
lol..... memory...
1X 512MB PC3200 Samsung generic
1X 512MB PC3700 Corsair XMS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9600 Pro @ 501/354
A7N8X Dlx

I first got a score of 17k...and was sorta worried. But then I realized I had 16x aniso and 6x anti-a locked on...took those off and got 31k.

 

New computer built up juts before christmass.

I just got a ATI 9800 Pro (had the 9800np and ATI 9600).

37,500 ish.

All Stock clocks, CPU and RAM in fast mode.

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton)
Epox EP-8KRA2+ Motherboard (KT600)
1024 Megabytes RAM (333 DDR)
PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800 128MB (AGP 8x)

 

oh man that was so funny. 11K and change Screen shot here I am embarrassed.

Xp professional sp1
amd 1800+ stock
pc 2100 256MB ddr
PowerColor ATI Radeon 9000 PRO (128mb ddr) Stock

I'll edit this and post my Hercules 3d Prophet III (64MB DDR geforce 3) score once it gets back to me.

 

Well, here's my two-penny's worth



Running the chip @ 3455 atm ...
Will clock the xt tomorrow - loads more to squeeze

James

 

quite chuffed with this'n

 

My radeon 9200 can barely get 1 fps on it..