Author Topic: 3DMark03 is out (Read 1291 times)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2003, 03:43:21 PM »

The 8500's cannot run the Nature test due to the lack of DX9 supported VS 1.2.

All the 9xxx series support DX9 and will run all the tests.

The PS 1.4 shaders are a subset of the 2.0 shaders in DX9. I really don't know why NVidia did not upadte the GF4's with 1.4 pixel shader support before they shipped it. Really never made sense to me as 1.4 pixel shaders were defined for DX8.

Everyone knew the 1.4 shaders would be the first shaders to be forward compatible. 1.3 and earlier shaders are not compatible with 1.4 and later shaders.

bloom25 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 12, 2003, 10:03:36 PM »

I believe HardOCP has an article up about driver bugs and such today. I haven't read it yet, but this fits right in.

3dmark 2001 was the same way - it unfairly penalized non-DX8 capable cards. Unfortunately, other than looking very pretty, it is not a fair benchmark to compare graphics cards anymore. It is still useful, as it allows you to see what impact system upgrades have on a system, but the video card has become such a variable in the scores that the numbers are totally out of proportion with true gaming performance.

LePaul · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2003, 10:51:28 AM »

I've been holding at DX 8.1b....is there any gain to going DX 9?

Animal · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2003, 01:05:17 PM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
I've been holding at DX 8.1b....is there any gain to going DX 9?

No, but theres no loss either.

SunKing · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2003, 03:56:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Mini D
Ah... I was waiting for a 9700 owner to post.

MiniD

4066 .. nothing tweaked.

Vermillion · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2003, 04:41:25 PM »

Anyone else getting lockups?

Both my machine at home, and my machien at work (totally different types one athlon & Nvidia, and the other Intel/Radeon) are crashing at random points.

I just updated to the new Catalyst 3.1 drivers on the 9700 Pro, so maybe I should revert to the older drivers.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #21 on:** February 13, 2003, 05:38:50 PM »

I am using Cat 3.1's. Ran fine,.well...even the 9700Pro was breaking a sweat.

Vermillion · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2003, 06:26:35 PM »

Reverted back to Cat 2.3's drivers

It ran with no crashes, but seemed very jerky. FPS's were shooting up and down wildly.

Final Score was 3389. Couldn't submitt to online results browser, but thats much worse than Sunkings and Skuzzy's, on a system that should be pretty stout.

I'll try the 3.0's and see if that helps.

***EDIT***

Well, I installed Cat 3.0 Vid drivers and it helped significantly. I ended up with a 4673. Still not stellar but definitely in the range for my exact same CPU/GPU at stock settings. When I did the compare online, the highest I saw for a stock nonoverclocked P4 2.8Ghz with a 9700 Pro was 4800 ish. The place I was getting beat to death was in the CPU tests. Maybe there is a setting or two in my BIOS that might improve my results slightly.

Eagler · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2003, 08:12:32 PM »

1448

default settings on test

XP2000

ti4400

512 ram

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #24 on:** February 14, 2003, 09:25:29 AM »

1663 on an Athlon XP 1700+ w/ 512MB of PC2100 RAM and a GeForce 4 Ti4600. The GF4 is overclocked about 10%, and memory settings are aggressive.

-- Todd/Leviathn

jonnyb · « **Reply #25 on:** February 14, 2003, 01:36:40 PM »

1156 -- pathetic

Athlon XP 2000+
256M PC2100 <-- bottleneck
GeForce4 Ti4600
Windows XP

Ike 2K# · « **Reply #26 on:** February 14, 2003, 08:22:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
4932

LOL!!!!! i got 45:)

SunKing · « **Reply #27 on:** February 14, 2003, 09:03:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Ike 2K#
LOL!!!!! i got 45:)

What did you do, connect the hamster wheel to 3dmarks?

Wlfgng · « **Reply #28 on:** February 15, 2003, 12:09:57 AM »

4736... I think I need a better power supply.

Nath[BDP] · « **Reply #29 on:** February 15, 2003, 04:51:42 AM »

i scored 750

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