3dmark2001SE score help

[happybelly2k]

I have a radeon 9700 pro and scored a 10094. This seems fairly low to me since I have seen scores of up to 13000. The rest of my system:

p4 2.53
350W PS
Asus P4PE(845PEchipset) MOBO
512 2100/333mhz ddr ram
80 gig WD 7200rpm hd
9700pro driver: 6.13.10.6143

Any thoughts or Suggestions?

 

[bokica]

Did u check 4xfsaa????

 

[halkebul]

Did u check 4xfsaa????

He means, is full screen anti-aliasing at 4X?

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[Rubberbband]

in ref to your system PC2100=266Mhz and PC2700=333

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[happybelly2k]

No, I didn't check 4xfsaa.

 

[Col_Kiwi]

check if you have FSAA or Anisotropic Filtering enabled in your ati drivers, they will decrease framerates.

also check your bios settings to make sure you're not running the card's bus in PCI mode, as silly as that sounds i've seen people do it and even did it myself for a few days once because of a confusing bios setting.

-Col.Kiwi

 

[hartski]

Are most benchmarks for vidcards ran at 16bit or 32bit? Does a monitor or monitor's refresh rate affect the outcome of the benchmark in anyway? I have R8500 and it is labeled 250MHz/250MHz. Is it an LE version?

 

[Ghostdog]

Yes hartski, that would be the LE.
If you by "most benchmarks" mean 3D Mark, then it has the option to set the color-depth, which does affect performance. Also if you benchmark real games you could try decreasing the color-depth to 16bit for better performance.

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[happybelly2k]

Ok, I got it up to 12578. But now my problem is with games, in jedi knight 2 the fps drops into the 15-25 range with a lot of action going on, and in CS it drops into the 40's! any suggestions?

 

[hartski]

So it is an LE. I thought before I bought a non-LE but suspiscions had risen coz I get 7500+ 3DMarks at 1024x768x32bpp and 6200+ 3DMarks at 1280x1024x32bpp. I did get 8600+ 3DMarks at 1024x768x16bpp. So why do ppl usually use 16bpp to benchmark their vidcards if 32bpp is the highest and would really tell how good your vidcard performs. Anyhow are my scores for my R8500 LE at 16bpp good enough?

 

[Col_Kiwi]

Yeah, at 250/250 it's an LE.

32 bit is standard for 3DMark 2001. Older versions used to use 16 bit as standard. If you want standard everything, go disable anything fancy you've enabled in your video drivers (like anisotropic filtering) and then run 3dmark and click the "Run Default Benchmark" button. Then you'll get standard settings.

-Col.Kiwi

 

[hartski]

So today scores for 3DMark 2001 SE are done in 32bit to be said as standard? Anyway are my scores for my R8500LE jsut about right? 1024x768x32 - 7500+ 3DMarks?

 

[Col_Kiwi]

Yes, they're standard at 32bpp.

7500ish seems about right for your card, i'd think maybe a little higher, but it depends on the CPU and RAM a lot as well.

-Col.Kiwi