Help, my 3DMark05 score sucks!!!

[thegr81]

Hey guys,
I have downloaded 3kmark05 and the patch and after running the full benchmarks I get a score of 2883 3D marks and 2079 CPU score. After consulting the results browser I have seen that many people with similar hardware to mine have achieved scores MUCH higher than mine. I'm talking 1200 points higher and more. I have looked through the "improving system performance" sticky thread on this forum and done everything suggested. Can anyone tell me what I might do to fix the performance problem I have?

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[coylter]

turn off aa and af...

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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Can anyone tell me what I might do to fix the performance problem I have?

Ummm, Get an X800XT!

Seriously if games are playing fine then don't worry about it, they're just Bungholioomarks.

However, if you're concerned that it's indicative of poor performance elsewhere post a link to the 3Dmk05 results, and for comparison it would make sense to post links to 03 and 01 results and even PCmark results so we can see what's going on as 3Dmk05 doesn't give a great picture of what else is going on since it doesn't show the individual tests unless you buy it.


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[thegr81]

I have AA, AF and vsync turned off. Everything is at default

Here are my results for 3DMark 03 and 05. I know damn well I had over 10,000 in 03 not too long ago so I have no clue what has happened. What might cause a 2,000 point drop?

http://www.barbieri.us/3DMark03.jpg
http://www.barbieri.us/3DMark05.jpg

I'd appreciate any suggestions

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[blackphoenix77]

Reformatting and resetting BIOS.

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[thegr81]

I just did a reformat not long ago. I do have performance problems in games. Battlefield Vietnam runs like [-peep-] even when I set all of the graphics settings to medium and I get choppiness in Doom 3. Those are they only games I have tried recently. I gave PCMark 04 a run and here is a link to the results in an Excel spreadsheet. I did notice that my 3D Graphics and Physics calculation FPS was over 40 FPS slower than someone else with the same processor and graphics card. Other than that I couldn't tell much from the data. If anyone can take a look and let me know what you think I'd appreciate it.

http://www.barbieri.us/PCMark04.xls


MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[rx7000]

05 Is way more intensive than 03, I was scoring 11-12k in 03 and Im only getting about 4,600 in 05. You should try experimenting with diffrent drivers for your card, I tried a few diffrent drivers and it ended up varying my score by about 1,000 marks after finding the right driver.

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[thegr81]

I'm not comparing 03 to 05. Someone asked that I post 03 results as well as 05. I have tried different drivers and the best I could do was around 3,000 in 05 with the 66.81 drivers from Guru3D but these drivers make games run even worse. I am almost 2,000 points bellow where I should be and Battlefield Vietnam stutters no matter what settings I use. How can I figure out what is causing my bad system performance?

One thought... I just added another hard drive to my computer. If I were having power problems, could this cause bad performance or would my computer just not boot at all?

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[rx7000]

3,000 Aint that bad for a score in 3dmark05, what kind of card do you have? Remember to alot of people are running liquid cooling etc and have their cards overclocked, I was able to up my score 2000+ by overclocking. And 3dmark05 dosnt seem to be reporting clock speeds accuratley for the core, I overclocked to 400ish and it was still listing my core speed as 350. So if you see the same setup's as yours scoring ridiculous scores, its pretty safe to assume their overclocking, have some type of cooling system active, defragging your hard drive has helped my past scores by a few hundred, if you havnt defragged try that. Get all the spyware and junk off your comp to before testing, test from a fresh restart.

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[thegr81]

Hey RX7000, thanks for the reply. You have a very similar system to mine. May I ask what your 3DMark05 score is when your system is running without overclocking? My video card is in my sig. My hard drives are always defragged because I run Diskeeper in screen saver mode so it defrags whenever the screen saver is active. I am really more worried about my game performance than my 3DMark score. I am now using the 65.73 WHQL drivers from Guru3D which from reading their forums are supposed to be the best for gaming. I am still having issues with lag in Battlefield Vietnam and to me it seems like it occurs whenever I move my view into a new area where things are probably being loaded into the video card's memory. I am going to try some more games and see what happens. Can someone tell me how exactly to run a benchmark in doom 3? What is the exact line I would type in the console?

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[thegr81]

I just ran a timedemo in doom 3 using demo1 at high quality settings and only got 25fps....

What the hell is wrong????????

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[priyajeet]

did u run it with precaching ?

>timedemo demo1 1

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[thegr81]

Look at this benchmark from Sandra... something is wrong here...

http://www.barbieri.us/Sandra.jpg

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[thegr81]

I ran the timedemo with precaching and got 42fps but when I play the game it is definitely running closer to what the timedemo gave without precaching. I have bad eyes and the game still looks extremely choppy to me as do other games. Something is wrong as shown by the Sandra benchmark I just posted.

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[priyajeet]

ok this is wierd. lets start off at the root and end up at the leaves. following the blue book (we all liv by the book) -

1] clean comp of spyware
2] chk background apps
3] remove any virus
4] remove startup items
5] see event views for any YELLOW/RED marks (control panel > administrative option)
6] see that no service is hanging.
7] get rid of chipset drivers/graphic drivers, the whole damn lot with a driver killer or something.
8] install windows updates
9] install back the drivers
10] chk for any conflicts in the device manager

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[rx7000]

My highest before overclock was 3,600. Ive been running battlefield vietnam, call of duty, doom3, star wars battlefronts, all on max settings (except for doom, doom settings were only high) and at 1280x1024 resolution and the games are running awsome. The card was running everything awsome stock, its smoking now after tweaking it with diffrent clock settings. Im running 66.72 I think I got it from guru3d also. I tried a bunch of drivers from them, half made everything run horrible, made things blury, made things look horrible. I had to try a few before I found ones that my card liked. I was using the most updated ones off nvidia cant remember which, the graphics were the same as they are now, but I was scoring something like 700-800 lower with the *up to date nvidia drivers*.

If you wanna ask me anything specific or talk about settings etc my aim is xxlegalizexx. No irc right now, gonna redownload it soon maybe.

Asus p4c800 Deluxe,1 Gig Mushkin PC3200 Dual Channel 400 Mhz(222),Pentium 4 3.0 512k 800fsb HT, Thermaltake Xaser III, Thermaltake Spark 7+, Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro, eVGA GeForce 6800 GT

 

[thegr81]

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!

I am now getting 11,000 in 3DMark03 and 4,058 in 3DMark05. For anyone that might find this thread and is experiencing similar problems, here is what I think was wrong.

As I mentioned earlier, I thought I might be having power problems because I had recently added another hard drive to my system. I decided that I would try unplugging one of my 2 10,000 rpm hard drives to see if I was getting insufficient power. Unfortunately I was unable to boot without both drives plugged in because windows was installed on one (the one I left plugged in) and Linux along with LILO bootloader was installed on the other. Because the bootloader was on one drive and windows was on the other, I couldn't do without both. After I plugged the other hard drive back in and turned on my system, I noticed that a couple of my LED case fans were not turning on. I looked into this and it turned out that the motex connector that was plugged into them, and was also on the same cable as the motex connector plugged into my GF 6800 GT, was not securely connected and was shorting out, therefore causing the fans to not work. Apparently this caused some kind of interference with the power running through the entire cable and my graphics card was not getting consistant power.

Now it is possible that this was not the actual problem and that in fixing this I actually fixed something else, but this is my best guess. Does this seem like a possibility to anyone?

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC

 

[Manhota]

thegreat1

as i was reading through the whole dilemma i just known straight away it was a power problem when you mentioned a extra hard drive added lately.

i had this problem with my old set up, i had a bog standard oem 350watt supply. my machine would crash because there was so many fans and hard drives control panels dvd writers running my score on my old fx5600 was slumping i changed my power supply to a thermaltake butterfy 480watt silent [-peep-] me it was amazing it was like a totally new system.

yes i would deffinatly say ur power supply is a fault you need to upgrade it like now.

you get what you pay for when it comes down to power supplys read reviews before you buy. ut i recommend a thermaltake cuz i got 1 and it came with 5yeras warranty.


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[thegr81]

I actually have an Xtreme Gamer 500 watt power supply so I don't think the power suply itself was the problem. Just the connections.

MSI NEO I875P FIS2R, P4 2.8ghz, 1gb Kingston KyperX dual channel DDR433, BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC