hardware question

Hi, I have a question. I have a Athlon 1.1 GHZ processor, 512 MB Ram, a ASUS A7V KT133 board and a ASUS V7700 deluxe 64MB graphics card. In the Benchmark 3DMark 2001 I only have 1100 points, I saw in other forums that people with nearly thbe same configuration have much more points, I asked there but I got no replys. Could you help me solv this little problem?

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Time is too paradox to play with it. Don't travel trough time if it is not necessary.

what exactly is the problem?

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<FONT COLOR="black"><FONT size="1"> Sci-Trek 2000 </FONT s></FONT c>
<FONT COLOR="blue"><FONT size="1">3D App: 3D Studio MAX 3 OS: Windows 2000</FONT s></FONT c>

It's all about the driver, buddy. nVidia is leaking newer versions to the web all few weeks, and the performance sometimes increases and sometimes decreases - extremely.

When I use 1.1.8.0. I get on my PIII-800/GeForce2Pro 1400 points. Using 7.x I get 2500. After tuning a bit I finally get around 3000!

So, go to http://www.rivastation.com/treiber.htm (it's in German, but you'll be able to find te right driver, I'm pretty sure) and download some versions. I think you'll do the best when downloading the newest version and the latest marked as "(official)" - even these official reference-driver versions are in the most cases much, much newer than it's counterparts from Asus. Try both versions, or try some others - with one you'll get a _much_ higher 3dmark-count!

And don't change the configuration in 3D Mark 2001! On startup it's configured to do a default-benchmark - and that's the one you have to look for.

PS.: Im Notfall schreib mir eine eMail, ich denke mal, in der Landessprache duerfte uns - oder mir zumindest - Kommunikation deutlich leichter fallen.

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Eike 'Sho' Hein, eikehein@t-online.de
"Anything can be realized. Just imagine."

Yeah Sho's right.
It's in the drivers.
Update them ALL.
Get DX8!
It gives around a 150-500 point improvement.

chrono