Hi all.
I'm new here so be gentle. I'm a rare breed, a female gamer who loves to kick arse in ut2004. After suffering horrid framerates in certain ONS maps on my old GF4, I decded to get myself a Sapphire x800pro (after reading the benchmarks from Tom, how could I resist?).
However, I'm shocked at how badly the card is actually performing, in comparison to Toms benchmarks, on my system. Has anyone else here actually obtained an x800pro yet? I'd be curious to see what sort of frame rates they get.
I was playing crossfire last night, and got avg 70fps in spec mode with no players, near the core. Once the action started, it was averaging at 33 fps - not good enough. Same on any map. Worse on big open maps like dawn - get an average 28 there.
I've tried various levels of AA and filtering but nothing seems to actually improve the frames per second. I couldn't find an option to turn AA off altogether in the graphics card opengl/direect3d settings (it was either 2x or "application controlled").
I'm hoping that the bad performance is due to some old Nvidea driver being left around, so will do a format / reinstall windows tonight. I'll probably reinstall UT too (and I don't have EAX selected in ut because it reputedly has a performance hit)
Nerdy info:
Intel p4 2.8 clocked to about 3.1 (10%)
asus p4p800 motherboard
Sapphire radeon x800pro
Creative audigy player
bog standard ddr333 pc2700 ram (1gig)
OS: WinXP with no service pack.
I know all too well my system isn't as good as the one Tom used in his benchmarks. However it's not insuperior to the point where it should knock 60fps off the benchmarked fps!
Other notes about UT:
I run at 1280 res, 32 bit colour, have tried various detail levels but framerate remains at a constant (low) average.
There's no hardrive thrashing, it just goes quite slow in places.
Avg fps without firefights is 50
avg with firefights is 28-33
I'm new here so be gentle. I'm a rare breed, a female gamer who loves to kick arse in ut2004. After suffering horrid framerates in certain ONS maps on my old GF4, I decded to get myself a Sapphire x800pro (after reading the benchmarks from Tom, how could I resist?).
However, I'm shocked at how badly the card is actually performing, in comparison to Toms benchmarks, on my system. Has anyone else here actually obtained an x800pro yet? I'd be curious to see what sort of frame rates they get.
I was playing crossfire last night, and got avg 70fps in spec mode with no players, near the core. Once the action started, it was averaging at 33 fps - not good enough. Same on any map. Worse on big open maps like dawn - get an average 28 there.
I've tried various levels of AA and filtering but nothing seems to actually improve the frames per second. I couldn't find an option to turn AA off altogether in the graphics card opengl/direect3d settings (it was either 2x or "application controlled").
I'm hoping that the bad performance is due to some old Nvidea driver being left around, so will do a format / reinstall windows tonight. I'll probably reinstall UT too (and I don't have EAX selected in ut because it reputedly has a performance hit)
Nerdy info:
Intel p4 2.8 clocked to about 3.1 (10%)
asus p4p800 motherboard
Sapphire radeon x800pro
Creative audigy player
bog standard ddr333 pc2700 ram (1gig)
OS: WinXP with no service pack.
I know all too well my system isn't as good as the one Tom used in his benchmarks. However it's not insuperior to the point where it should knock 60fps off the benchmarked fps!
Other notes about UT:
I run at 1280 res, 32 bit colour, have tried various detail levels but framerate remains at a constant (low) average.
There's no hardrive thrashing, it just goes quite slow in places.
Avg fps without firefights is 50
avg with firefights is 28-33
My gf4 was faster.
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