Haig, or someone. G4 is SLOW

[xilian]

Current system:
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Epox EP-51MVP3E-m
AMD K6-2 500Mhz
128MB 100MHZ ram
Matrox G400 32mb 300Mhz Dual
AHA2940UW
Eicon Diva 2.0
Sound Blaster Live! 1024

Win98SE
DX7
w9x_530

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3dmark99 max build 200
2815 3DMarks
5810 CPU 3DMarks
33 FPS (Game 1 - Race)
24 FPS (Game 2 - First Person)
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I've tried all possible BIOS combinations, all the latest drivers.
(Including fresh install with DX6.1, fresh install with DX7, and
using 520, 525 and 530 drivers)
Kinda makes me tired of trying, so guys.. Please help me out.

G400 Tech Demo - Some lagging occours.

Delta Force 2 - Looks like I have 5 FPS(Tried all possible modes)

Rainbow 6 RS - Runs quite good at 800x600. No crosshairs in 1024

NFS High Stakes - Slow. Poor CPS


The list goes on and on.
I DONT LIKE IT ONE BIT!

[Zwisch]

What are your game1 and game2? have you tried Q2?

Does your card have an IRQ and is it sharing it?

Remember that you do not have the best CPU to ask for pure speed.... you certainly cannot compare a PIII with a K6!!!! I have a K6-3 400 and it's a good 10-15 fps less than my P2 400 (that has less ram and slower hard drive on top of that...)

[JAZZ]

Do you have the IDE Busmaster and AGP drivers from your chipset manufacturer? http://www.viatech.com/drivers/index.htm

[xilian]

Errr.. The "game-1" and "Game-2" is from 3dmark99 Max
I haven't been able to measure any of the games...

I've also installed all busmaster/AGP drivers
G400 is on iRQ15, and alone...
No wonder I'm confused, eh?


regards

XiLiAN

[This message has been edited by xilian (edited 14 November 1999).]

[George]

Xillian,

What hard disk interface are you using? IDE or SCSI. What is your CDROM, IDE or SCSI, if IDE, where is the HD or CDROM located (primary, secondary, master slave etc.)

[xilian]

Bus Mastering is enabled.
I have not tried the disabling of VSYNC, but will do asap.

I have no IDE devices what so ever.
SCSI all the way.

According to Adaptec SCSIBench32 (v4.01)
(Sequential I/O, 64KBytes)

IBM - 15032
Seagate - 6897

[SCompRacer]

Is bus mastering enabled in Power Desk, display properties/settings/advanced/options?

[George]

Is the CPU usage normal? Is it possible something is using abnormally high CPU resources?

[KvHagedorn]

You also might try disabling vsync.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[Joel]

Hey xilian,

What you are seeing in 3dmark99MAX build 200 seems about right to me. I have an AMD K6-2/400 and I get the following:

2793 3DMarks
5526 CPU 3DMarks
2385 3D RasterMarks
32.5 FPS (Game 1 - Race)
24.5 FPS (Game 2 - First Person)
242.4 MTexels/s Fill Rate
235.2 MTexels/s Fill Rate with Multi-Texturing
311.4 FPS 2MB Texture Rendering
244.9 FPS 4MB Texture Rendering
167.4 FPS 8MB Texture Rendering
121.5 FPS 16MB Texture Rendering
61.0 FPS 32MB Texture Rendering

If I was you I wouldn't worry about it too much since the final score in 3DMark99MAX is based only on the first two game runs. In my opinion it is a very suckass benchmarking program anyway.

Joel

[Joel]

Here are my system specs:

Joel

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System Specs

[Gum]

Well, I am able to get at least a 3000 and above in 3DMark '99 MAX with my config stated below...Combined with DX7, ALi AGP 1.65 and PD5.30.

Are you running at 100Mhz FSB(or above) and AGP2x enabled? BIOS settings set correctly?

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AsusP5A, K6-400 @ 448, 128Mb Micron PC100 -8E SDRAM, G400 16Mb, IBM 16GP 8.4, Quantum ST 3.2, Toshiba 32X, HP CDWriter 7570i, RIC 17", ProLink WinScan Pro2000, HP Deskjet 710C, SBLive! Value, Altec Lansing ACS45 & ACS295