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TyP3-R · 30-December-04, 11:20 AM

Well...I am pretty much stumped on what is goin on with my vid card. I recently recieved a OEM Connect3D x800XT PE and it is not up to par with my expectations. I ran 3dMark03 at 1024 with (I think) no AA and 4x AF (I might be backwards on this). I got a score of ~11000. But when I play Half Life 2 at 1024 with all recommended Valve settings (mostly full with a few mediums) and 4xAA/8xAF I get a average of about 30fps. That cant be right for a top of the line ~$500 card. So I start experimenting...

>Cat 4.12 displayed results described above.
>Cat 4.12b made no difference.
>I did switch from a nVidia card so I made sure to uninstall the forceware completely and used "Nasty File Remover" and "Driver Cleaner 3.3" from http://www.driverheaven.net/.
>Defragged my heavily fragmented drive and that helped but not how Id like.
>Tried BF1942 briefly (2 minutes) this morning before work and I dont have numbers but I wasnt impressed.

My next step was gonna be to try Omega and then try previous Cat drivers. I am at work now So I cant do much. I have Win Xp SP2 fully updated. My chipset and bios are fully updated. Could there be something in my bios limiting the card's speed? I looked and couldnt find much. I did change the AGP aperture size from 64mb (my old gf3) to 256mb. Also made sure my agp was running at 8x and it is. The thing I dread it being is maybe that since it is a OEM card it is flawed.

Let me know anything you guys can think of and I will help as much as I can from work.

Thanks!

30-December-04, 11:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
TyP3-R Apex Master Tech Apprentice Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Phoenix Posts: 281	Poor x800XT PE HL2 Performance Well...I am pretty much stumped on what is goin on with my vid card. I recently recieved a OEM Connect3D x800XT PE and it is not up to par with my expectations. I ran 3dMark03 at 1024 with (I think) no AA and 4x AF (I might be backwards on this). I got a score of ~11000. But when I play Half Life 2 at 1024 with all recommended Valve settings (mostly full with a few mediums) and 4xAA/8xAF I get a average of about 30fps. That cant be right for a top of the line ~$500 card. So I start experimenting... >Cat 4.12 displayed results described above. >Cat 4.12b made no difference. >I did switch from a nVidia card so I made sure to uninstall the forceware completely and used "Nasty File Remover" and "Driver Cleaner 3.3" from http://www.driverheaven.net/. >Defragged my heavily fragmented drive and that helped but not how Id like. >Tried BF1942 briefly (2 minutes) this morning before work and I dont have numbers but I wasnt impressed. My next step was gonna be to try Omega and then try previous Cat drivers. I am at work now So I cant do much. I have Win Xp SP2 fully updated. My chipset and bios are fully updated. Could there be something in my bios limiting the card's speed? I looked and couldnt find much. I did change the AGP aperture size from 64mb (my old gf3) to 256mb. Also made sure my agp was running at 8x and it is. The thing I dread it being is maybe that since it is a OEM card it is flawed. Let me know anything you guys can think of and I will help as much as I can from work. Thanks! __________________ That which we fear the most has already happened to us. Last edited by TyP3-R; 30-December-04 at 03:09 PM.