Poor Performance
<div class="IPBDescription">from an 9800 pro</div> I've had my powercolor 9800 pro for a couple of months now. But this happend earlier.
I have heard alot about flashing a pro to a XT so i wanted to try it. I clocked my card to the XT speeds then checked after artifacts in 3dmark, nothing showed up.
Then I found a guide how to flash the and the tools i needed.
After I had flashed it seemed to be ok, everithing showed up correctly and the windows device manager said it was an XT.
I noticed it was running quite hot when i played games like CS:S or Doom 3 (I could feel some warmth outside the case where the card was).
I went on a LAN and my friend had: a geforce4 TI 128mb, 1gb RAM and 2.4ghz intel p4. While i had 3.0ghz intel p4, 1 gb RAM and my 9800 pro. We tried to max all settings in CS:S then see the results (vertical sync was off). We tried both maps and stress test. He had around 20fps or higher. While I had a nearly constant 10fps. And an other guy which had a 9600XT performed better too. Tried different drivers it didn't work.
I dident really see any difference from when it was a pro or XT. So i tried some other XT bios from another site (i overwrote my original pro bios during flashing by mistake). When they were in I had lots of bugs and colorful stripes. So i immidetly restarted and went back with the old XT bios. No problems during bootup. I DLed pro bios and flashed them in. Same crappy 10fps.
I kept those pro bios until now when i found a flash bios editor and clocked down the XT bios to pro speeds. No noticeble warmth, but the fps stayed at 10.
An other guy told me i had oc damaged my card, but I have almost the same 3dmark score as others with the same card and with better CPUs.
So now im here and wonder if any of you have any idea of what might be the problem?
I have heard alot about flashing a pro to a XT so i wanted to try it. I clocked my card to the XT speeds then checked after artifacts in 3dmark, nothing showed up.
Then I found a guide how to flash the and the tools i needed.
After I had flashed it seemed to be ok, everithing showed up correctly and the windows device manager said it was an XT.
I noticed it was running quite hot when i played games like CS:S or Doom 3 (I could feel some warmth outside the case where the card was).
I went on a LAN and my friend had: a geforce4 TI 128mb, 1gb RAM and 2.4ghz intel p4. While i had 3.0ghz intel p4, 1 gb RAM and my 9800 pro. We tried to max all settings in CS:S then see the results (vertical sync was off). We tried both maps and stress test. He had around 20fps or higher. While I had a nearly constant 10fps. And an other guy which had a 9600XT performed better too. Tried different drivers it didn't work.
I dident really see any difference from when it was a pro or XT. So i tried some other XT bios from another site (i overwrote my original pro bios during flashing by mistake). When they were in I had lots of bugs and colorful stripes. So i immidetly restarted and went back with the old XT bios. No problems during bootup. I DLed pro bios and flashed them in. Same crappy 10fps.
I kept those pro bios until now when i found a flash bios editor and clocked down the XT bios to pro speeds. No noticeble warmth, but the fps stayed at 10.
An other guy told me i had oc damaged my card, but I have almost the same 3dmark score as others with the same card and with better CPUs.
So now im here and wonder if any of you have any idea of what might be the problem?
Comments
If you put down your direct X level to the highest capable level of the geforce4 TI, it should at least reach comparable frame rates (athough it is optimized for better preformance with higher functions enabled)
Haha,
"This 3d video accelerator need 2.1 gigabytes per second of bandwidth, STAT!"
My MB has 800Mhz system bus and supports 8x agp, im also running sp1 need any other info?
if it's low on AGP fluid how do i fix it <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> ?
Try stealing somebody elses 9800 and see if its your system bottlenecking it somewhow or your cards just aflame.
edit Garf early morning pre-coffee posts for the lose /edit
ATI control panel says it runs at 8x AGP, but at bios it says radeon 9800 XT AGP (0x4E4A)
Edit: And disabling the sound drivers didn't work (via device manager).
That can't be good.
A new finding under properties-->Card Type: PCI-buss 1, device 0, function 0
Should it really be PCI? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Edit: My motherboard <a href='http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-8IPE1000-G.htm' target='_blank'>Clicky</a> .
Ya, I kindof made that point earler as well.
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Ok I understand that but that other guy had a 9600XT which runs 9x right?
And others with a 9800pro seem to run better too.
Hm when I install a driver should i use the C2, CX or C9 file? (manual install)
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Ok I understand that but that other guy had a 9600XT which runs 9x right?
And others with a 9800pro seem to run better too.
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Ya, but when comparing 9800pro to a 9600XT small differences in CPU and ram power will mean large differences in FPS preformance. You said already that your friend's TI machine was around the same specs as yours except for the card, well the 9600 is probably in a faster machine. 10 FPS sounds about right for your system with everything maxed out. I only get 15-20 and my CPU is a fair bit chunkier then yours (although I'm limited by DDR333 ram)
[edit]Just to clarify, I'm running a 9800 pro, 3.17 pentium 4 proc (northwood), and a gig of ram.
Maybe it aint the card bugging...
Thanks for all your help eveyone <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->