Radeon 9600 Poor 3dmark results?

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Dan Keeley

Hi All,

Just got myself a lovely 128mb ddr radeon 9600 pro, but it's only getting
8300 3dmarks ( 3d mark 2001 SE )

This seems a tad low, At the moment i have standard drivers installed ( Came
on the CD ) OS is XP and Processor is a 2.4ghz P4... Oh, 512mb DDR ram.
(On a 4x AGP Board)

So what do i need to tweak / check? Or am i misreading the results?

It got 2400 in 3dmark03 ...

Cheers,
Dan
 
Dan said:
So what do i need to tweak / check? Or am i misreading the results?
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Maybe you got AF and AA turned on (forced settings at Direct3D tab).
Set it on "Application preference".
 
Ah ha, they were on.
however turning them off lowered the score...

I've now changed a few other settings and running again, got it don to 4000
just then :(

hehe

once i get the best out of that i'll do the driver then the agp aperature
( if this is configurable ) and then let you guys know where i get

Thanks for the fast responses so far!!!

Rgds,.
Dan
 
Hmm, There isnt an AGP aperature setting ! Wish it would hit 10k though!

Weird. Not anything else i can try is there?

Cheers anyway!
Dan

Oh well, i'm up to 8600 with the new drivers at least
 
Hi All,
Click to expand...
Just got myself a lovely 128mb ddr radeon 9600 pro, but it's only getting
8300 3dmarks ( 3d mark 2001 SE )
Click to expand...
This seems a tad low, At the moment i have standard drivers installed ( Came
on the CD ) OS is XP and Processor is a 2.4ghz P4... Oh, 512mb DDR ram.
(On a 4x AGP Board)
Click to expand...
So what do i need to tweak / check? Or am i misreading the results?
Click to expand...
It got 2400 in 3dmark03 ...
Click to expand...
Cheers,
Dan
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With my 9600, I got 3200 with DMark2003 and 3800 with a 9500. No special
settings at all... just the way it came originally. Using Catalyst 3.6
drivers in Windows XP.

Sam
 
r u sure it's not 3dMark 2003 :)?

I have the ati sapphire Radeon 9500np softmodded to a 9700, not OC'd.
Before softmod it scored about 10K on 3d mark 2001. After softmod it
went to 12.6K. My GF2Ti 64Mb card came in at about 5K.
Ath 2400+
256Mb mushkin 2100 Hi Perf ram
epox 8kha+
Win98se
rope pull starter......
 
hmm, can i "softmod" my 2600? I dont know much about all this....

I played with a bit of overclocking but not done any full runs yet....

I dunno where the problem lies then, but there's clearly something wrong,
maybe it's the motherboard, a rebadged asustek one from HP... With crappy
bios NO OPTIONS AT ALL!!!
 
Ok, i just had a thought, does it make any difference what refresh
rate i run my monitors at?

Also i'm making use of the twin head, does that make a difference?
There's clearly something wrong, and i suspect it's something im
doing, config or a setting somewhere! I hope so anyway!
 
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