Hi there people,
Installed my FX5900 Ultra yesterday but I'm only getting 13480 3dmarks. I completely removed the Radeon drivers before I installed the card, and removed all the residual files left behind etc etc. I'm using the Det 45.23's and I've tried reinstalling them to no avail. All other settings - ie AGP rate, etc etc, are the same from when I had my Radeon - which got my 15300 3dmarks.
I'm running an XP2700+, KX7-333, 768Mb Corsair XMS2700 and Windows 2000 Pro.
Anything I can try before I reformat? I've tried the obvious things like disabling VSync, ensuring FSAA is off, etc etc.


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A fresh install is pretty wise from time to time and with how optimised (and risidual) gfx drivers are a gfx upgrade is a good time anyway.
The Rad9700PRO is VERY close in perf to the Rad9800PRO which in turn is very close to GF-FX5900ultra. 3Dmark2001SE was never really designed with mammoth cards like this in mind and doesn't get near to maximising half of there potential. Perhaps running 1600x1200x32 with AA+AF would stress your card a little more and therefore show the diffs between gfx cards more easily, even so I wouldn't expect the diffs between Rad9700pro and GF-FX5900ultra to be that much anyway. The most notable gain would have come from an even faster CPU but since your setup can (and could have before) play all games out there and due out in the next 12 months at maximum details in high res with AA+AF it really doesn't matter. You also have to consider that ATI's DX9 implimentation can fall back to DX8.1 whereas GF-FX are almost certain to fall back to DX8.0. The diffs are generally minimal but 8.1 is quite significantly more efficient if used fully, you may find a bm like 3Dmark03 more testing esp in high end systems.
Which doesnt help when i dont know what ive written here! DOH!
Well various scores I got in 3Dmark2001SE using a £45 XP1700+ TbredB were...
