MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 problems

I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to 13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

Do you have the 64 meg card or the 128 meg card?

regards

B
"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
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I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to 13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

I have the 128MB card.

"B" wrote in message
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Do you have the 64 meg card or the 128 meg card?

regards

B
"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
...
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of
this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to
13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

What is the spec of your power supply as well? I have seen a couple of PCs
where the power supply was having problems delivering enough juice to the
card when running high intensity graphics.

regards

B
"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
news
I have the 128MB card.

"B" wrote in message
...
Do you have the 64 meg card or the 128 meg card?

regards

B
"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
...
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of
this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia
drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x
Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have
Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and
I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost
Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to
13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

You may want to read about the problem I had a few posts up with my old
MX440 and my new Ti4200. I removed the case and my CPU went a bit
faster, thus causing my video card to go faster as well. But I only
went over 10,000 if I overclocked it, and i have a Athhon XP 2400+; at
normal speed it was around 8000. Try the running SiSoft Sandra CPU
benchmark and see if your CPU is going at the correct speed (compare it
to the reference CPU values they give you).


Big F'n Deal wrote:
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to 13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

My Sandra2003 scores for CPU Arithmetic Benchmark are...
Drystone7751 MIPS / Whetstone 3095 MFLOPS.

For CPU Multimedia are...
Integer 11121 it/s / Float 12227 it/s

As I said I am running a T'bred B 1700 @ 12x173 w/ TwinX PC2700.

From everything I've read these are the scores I should expect for where my
CPU is.

"D I" wrote in message
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You may want to read about the problem I had a few posts up with my old
MX440 and my new Ti4200. I removed the case and my CPU went a bit
faster, thus causing my video card to go faster as well. But I only
went over 10,000 if I overclocked it, and i have a Athhon XP 2400+; at
normal speed it was around 8000. Try the running SiSoft Sandra CPU
benchmark and see if your CPU is going at the correct speed (compare it
to the reference CPU values they give you).


Big F'n Deal wrote:
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of
this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to
13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

My rails are as follows... +3.3V=26A, +5V=40A, +12V=16A.

"B" wrote in message
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What is the spec of your power supply as well? I have seen a couple of PCs
where the power supply was having problems delivering enough juice to the
card when running high intensity graphics.

regards

B
"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
news
I have the 128MB card.

"B" wrote in message
...
Do you have the 64 meg card or the 128 meg card?

regards

B
"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
...
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my
video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of
this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia
drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x
Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have
Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask
and
I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost
Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is
I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen
higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to
13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

One slight update, I lowered resolution in favor of a higher (read as
actually usable) refresh rate. I had been at 1280x1024 @ 66Hz. Now I
adjusted that lower so I am now at 1024x768 @ 75Hz. When I reran 3dMark
2001SE, I did get over 6000, but not by much. So I am still very low. Can
someone post the settings for the benchmark, could I have the benchmark set
wrong? I do run BOTH a CRT VGA Monitor and a TV S-video connection. Could
the dual-monitor setup be an issue?

"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
...
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of this
posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia drivers
45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an ASUS A7N8x Dlx
rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076 (12x173). I have Corair
TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any other info you need, ask and I
will answer. I am having very choppy play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon
Island Thunder. I am also having issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen higher
scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the 11000 to 13000
range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx

"Big F'n Deal" wrote in
:

One slight update, I lowered resolution in favor of a higher (read as
actually usable) refresh rate. I had been at 1280x1024 @ 66Hz. Now I
adjusted that lower so I am now at 1024x768 @ 75Hz. When I reran
3dMark 2001SE, I did get over 6000, but not by much. So I am still
very low. Can someone post the settings for the benchmark, could I
have the benchmark set wrong? I do run BOTH a CRT VGA Monitor and a TV
S-video connection. Could the dual-monitor setup be an issue?

"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
...
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my
video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of
this posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia
drivers 45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an
ASUS A7N8x Dlx rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076
(12x173). I have Corair TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any
other info you need, ask and I will answer. I am having very choppy
play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon Island Thunder. I am also having
issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen
higher scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the
11000 to 13000 range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx






I experienced a similar lack of performance when I upgraded to the same
video card. My system has an Athlon XP2400+, VIA KT400, 1gig of DDR333.
I was getting similar scores on 3DMarkSE b330, and similar crappy game
performance until I realized that the card was operating in "PCI Mode",
rather than AGP8x. Check out in your video properties (MSI Information
tab), and make sure that the "AGP Traffic Enable" and "8x" boxes are
checked. If they aren't - there's your problem.

In my case, I needed to update my VIA chipset driver (which caused me
headaches unrelated to the vid. card - but that's another story!). With
the card now running in 8x AGP mode, my scores are in the 10,500 range
(stock clock speeds, all around), and nearly 12,000 with the vid. card
OC'd.

You might have to update your nForce drivers, or change some settings in
your BIOS, to enable 8X AGP. Hopefully, that fixes it for ya.

your dual-display. I don't really know if that would do anything -
I've never tried it.

BTW, my settings for 3DMark (default, I believe): 1024x768x32,
compressed textures, no A.A. My monitor runs at 120Hz normally, but I
think 3DMark switches it to 60Hz for the test (doubt if that makes any
difference, anyway).

Good luck.

Thank you for that posting. Great info. Unfortunately though I checked an
both of the items you mentioned are checked. Also now I seem to be having a
problem even attempting to benchmark. I either have a problem where
3dMark2001SE either freezes and freezes my PC with it (usually on the 1st
test), exits from 3dMark without getting past the Dragothic test, or I get a
physical memory dump BSOD and am rebooted. I have to say I eMailed MSI about
this as well as posting, they said to disable fat write in the BIOS, update
to DX9 and raise the voltage to 1.6V. However, I already had the card @
1.6V, so I just did the othe two things, but they were no help.


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"Big F'n Deal" wrote in
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One slight update, I lowered resolution in favor of a higher (read as
actually usable) refresh rate. I had been at 1280x1024 @ 66Hz. Now I
adjusted that lower so I am now at 1024x768 @ 75Hz. When I reran
3dMark 2001SE, I did get over 6000, but not by much. So I am still
very low. Can someone post the settings for the benchmark, could I
have the benchmark set wrong? I do run BOTH a CRT VGA Monitor and a TV
S-video connection. Could the dual-monitor setup be an issue?

"Big F'n Deal" wrote in message
...
I am having a hard time getting satisfactory performance from my
video
card,
and I am hoping you all can help. As oyu can see from the subject of
this posting, I have a MSI GeForce 4 Ti4200 card. I am running nVidia
drivers 45.33 and have the card overclocked to 270/544. I have an
ASUS A7N8x Dlx rev.2.00 w/ an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ oc'd to 2076
(12x173). I have Corair TwinX XMS 2700LL dual-channel memory. Any
other info you need, ask and I will answer. I am having very choppy
play in Ghost Recon and Ghost Recon Island Thunder. I am also having
issues with MS Zoo Tycoon where it
randomly
stops and also has a hard time with the terrain. The final issue is I
cannot
obtain a score higher than 6000 with 3dMark 2001SE, I have seen
higher scores for my exact card online. I have sseen scores in the
11000 to 13000 range running at 1024x768. My resolution is 1280x1024.

Thanx






I experienced a similar lack of performance when I upgraded to the same
video card. My system has an Athlon XP2400+, VIA KT400, 1gig of DDR333.
I was getting similar scores on 3DMarkSE b330, and similar crappy game
performance until I realized that the card was operating in "PCI Mode",
rather than AGP8x. Check out in your video properties (MSI Information
tab), and make sure that the "AGP Traffic Enable" and "8x" boxes are
checked. If they aren't - there's your problem.

In my case, I needed to update my VIA chipset driver (which caused me
headaches unrelated to the vid. card - but that's another story!). With
the card now running in 8x AGP mode, my scores are in the 10,500 range
(stock clock speeds, all around), and nearly 12,000 with the vid. card
OC'd.

You might have to update your nForce drivers, or change some settings in
your BIOS, to enable 8X AGP. Hopefully, that fixes it for ya.

your dual-display. I don't really know if that would do anything -
I've never tried it.

BTW, my settings for 3DMark (default, I believe): 1024x768x32,
compressed textures, no A.A. My monitor runs at 120Hz normally, but I
think 3DMark switches it to 60Hz for the test (doubt if that makes any
difference, anyway).

Good luck.