I've just upgraded from a dual P3-1000 to a P4-2400/533 (a natty little Shuttle SB51G system) and am seeing only a modest improvement in Aces High offline (haven't tried online yet). I run AH at 1600x1200x32.
Both systems use EIDE and Gf4-4200 video cards. Drivers are Detonator 43. Both machines have 1 GB RAM. Both systems run XP Pro, clean installs, and are fully updated as per WindowsUpdate. Neither machine is overclocked.
In AH, I load the Trinity map, and take a C205 to an enemy vehicle base. I get 60-80 fps along the way, but this drops to 50-60 fps when attacking, and < 30 fps when I fly through the smoke.
If I enable Quincunx FSAA, those figures are cut by 2/3.
I've tried 3DMark 2003: my P3-1000 scores 1009, which is about right, but my P4 only scores 1296.
I've read about nVidia's concerns, so I benchmarked UT2003 at 1024x768 (fresh install and unpatched - haven't Epic heard of DVDs?), no tweaking, and my P3-1000 scored 82 on Flyby and 31 on Botmatch, whereas my P4-2400 scored 136 and 56 respectively.
I've gone through the BIOS tweaking where necessary - e.g. telling the computer that the memory is DDR333, not DDR266 with little effect.
3D Mark 2001 result is 7888 (1024x768, noFSAA, default settings). CPU temp is 49 degrees C.
I note that 3DMark says that Fast AGP writes and Sideband addressing are both supported but disabled. I cannot find where to turn them on, either in the BIOS or in XP.
Extrapolating from the Tom's Harware review of this system with a Gf4 4600, I should be getting a 3d Mark 2001 score of well over 10,000.
I've tried replacing the video card with another Gf4 4200 without improvement.
How can I correct my poor video performance?
qts
Both systems use EIDE and Gf4-4200 video cards. Drivers are Detonator 43. Both machines have 1 GB RAM. Both systems run XP Pro, clean installs, and are fully updated as per WindowsUpdate. Neither machine is overclocked.
In AH, I load the Trinity map, and take a C205 to an enemy vehicle base. I get 60-80 fps along the way, but this drops to 50-60 fps when attacking, and < 30 fps when I fly through the smoke.
If I enable Quincunx FSAA, those figures are cut by 2/3.
I've tried 3DMark 2003: my P3-1000 scores 1009, which is about right, but my P4 only scores 1296.
I've read about nVidia's concerns, so I benchmarked UT2003 at 1024x768 (fresh install and unpatched - haven't Epic heard of DVDs?), no tweaking, and my P3-1000 scored 82 on Flyby and 31 on Botmatch, whereas my P4-2400 scored 136 and 56 respectively.
I've gone through the BIOS tweaking where necessary - e.g. telling the computer that the memory is DDR333, not DDR266 with little effect.
3D Mark 2001 result is 7888 (1024x768, noFSAA, default settings). CPU temp is 49 degrees C.
I note that 3DMark says that Fast AGP writes and Sideband addressing are both supported but disabled. I cannot find where to turn them on, either in the BIOS or in XP.
Extrapolating from the Tom's Harware review of this system with a Gf4 4600, I should be getting a 3d Mark 2001 score of well over 10,000.
I've tried replacing the video card with another Gf4 4200 without improvement.
How can I correct my poor video performance?
qts
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