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Title: GeForce4 MX 420 (agp) very slow Frames
Post by: 1stnastySQUID on May 06, 2002, 01:00:48 AM

I recently purchased a Geforce4 MX 420 and Im getting
very poor results...........
Frame rate on runway --5 FPS
frame rate normal flight at 10k -- 12-15 FPS
Looking straight up at sky -- 45 FPS

This is comparable to my old PCI 32MG Savage4 card.
and is slightly better than my old ATI rage pro turbo 8 MG.(AGP)

system specs:
AMD 750MHZ Athalon w/two cooling fans
AD-11 motherboard
384 MG ram (SDRAM)
win98se O/S
all new drivers for AGPminiport,motherboard,
Vid card and so on............
19" MAG 800v monitor.
7400 rpm seagate HD  8.4 gig
(not even 1 gig used space)
virtual mem set at 250 min and max

I have cable connect (although I dont think thats
the issue)

note:have tried winME to try to resolve
problem (frames were same)

If anyone can help me out with the settings
please do.................

Im sure that I should get more FPS out of this puppy.

                       Thanks in advance
                                 SQUID  :confused:

Title: GeForce4 MX 420 (agp) very slow Frames
Post by: bloom25 on May 06, 2002, 01:22:07 AM

I'd try throughly removing the drivers for the card and reinstalling them.  I'm guessing there is a problem here.  You *should* get better framerates than that.

Also make sure there isn't an interrupt conflict between the video card and something else.

Title: GeForce4 MX 420 (agp) very slow Frames
Post by: minus on May 06, 2002, 05:47:26 AM

check the bios seting !

Title: Take it back.
Post by: weazel on May 06, 2002, 08:12:45 AM

Get at least the 440MX, some of the 420MX cards use SDR ram and aren't much faster than a GF2MX, also make sure anti aliasing is turned off if you decide to keep it.

I'm very happy with my 440MX.

Title: GeForce4 MX 420 (agp) very slow Frames
Post by: mrsid2 on May 06, 2002, 08:19:49 AM

I would never buy MX anything.

For a few bucks more you get the real thing.

Title: GeForce4 MX 420 (agp) very slow Frames
Post by: Replicant on May 06, 2002, 05:24:49 PM

When I first got my GeForce 2 GTS 64mb sometime ago I had a similar problem.  It turned out to be the 4 in 1 VIA drivers not working properly - the 4 x AGP wasn't even working.  Try installing the latest 4 in 1 VIA drivers and then experiment with using some of the latest Detonator Drivers.

Good luck!