Author Topic: Noticed something funny while benchmarking (Read 330 times)

San · « **on:** March 21, 2003, 12:08:10 PM »

I was tweaking my new card a few weeks ago and noticed this and was wondering if anyone could explain it.

Mindanao default field with clipboard up take reading of frame rate after it stabilizes. Change countries to Rook, Go to C 63, spawn a hellcat and start engine. Let framerate stabilize and record.

Now here is what I find strange.

Resolution CB CV

640x480 81 48
800x600 81 48
1024x768 81 48
1280x1024 81 48
1600x1200 81 48

This really surprised me because in every game benchmark I have ever done you see a framerate hit in the higher resolutions at some point.

I ran the same test on the 4 machines that I have here at home and bugged a few squaddies to run them also . We came up with very similar results on all our systems frame rates remained the same regardless of resolution. The only thing we seem to have in common is windows xp.

SKurj · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2003, 05:30:58 PM »

Errmmm my first thought is your CPU is holding you back...

SKurj

San · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2003, 08:19:30 PM »

Right that very well could be the case in my main machine with the AIW 9700 pro the XP 2100 will not pump out the juice for it but I tested this on several other machines

P3 900 Radeon AIW 7500
P3 1.2 Radeon 7500 mobility
P3 800 Radeon 7500 mobility
AMD 1400 Geforce 2 ultra
AMD 1900 AIW 9700
AMD 2100 AIW 9700 (also with an overclock to 1833)
P4 2017 Geforce 3 Ti 500

I would really like to see someone with another version of windows try it. Maybe one of you guys wouldn't mind?

maddog · « **Reply #3 on:** March 22, 2003, 10:42:30 AM »

I tried Video card (9700pro) on two systems

3dmark scores where

AMD2000..............4400 W2K
AMD2800Barton.....4400 wxp

I think....or it appears that anything over 1.6 or 2 gig seems to be enough to max out video card.....

Any thoughts Skuzz.....

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2003, 12:29:25 PM »

Try that under 3dmark 2001 maddog. I just don't think 3dmark 2003 is a very good benchmark.

(One other thing that crossed my mind is that a 2800 Barton would run at a similar clockspeed to the 2000+ model if the FSB was accidentally set to 133 MHz vs 166 MHz. You might check to be sure you've got the CPU FSB set to 166 MHz as well.)

San · « **Reply #5 on:** March 22, 2003, 12:32:38 PM »

maddog

Could you run the Aces High benchmark that I posted above for me. I would really like to see how the 2800 performs. Thanks