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Old December 7th 04, 10:54 AM
Damo
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Default My 6600GT is slow as crap! Or nearly as slow.

I have a 2.4ghz P4/512meg/ti4200 and used to get 50fps in the cs:s stress
test with rez at 1024*768.

I just upgraded to a 6600GT and now I get 24fps - and it is a very stuttery
24fps as well. Very uneven.

I have tried removing and re-installing all sorts of drivers, upped the AGP
voltage to 1.6, set the AGP aperture to 256meg, checked in riva tuner and
the clock speeds are OK 500/900. Anyone know what is happening? Oh and I
checked the molex power connector is properly fitted as well. My PSU is a
solid 350watts (not a yum cha brand).

A quick google search showed a few others with a similar issue (on 6800s
though). This thing should be running at least 4 times as fast, it does it
in all games and 3dmark (the space battle on 3dmark03 was only doing 12fps.
My system is clean and recently formatted, no funny tweaks were done to it -
just a straight ti4200 removed and replaced with a 6600gt. Any ideas?

Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am using it
now). Core temp is 50 degrees.

Damo


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Old December 7th 04, 11:06 AM
Damo
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"Damo" wrote in message
...
I have a 2.4ghz P4/512meg/ti4200 and used to get 50fps in the cs:s stress
test with rez at 1024*768.

I just upgraded to a 6600GT and now I get 24fps - and it is a very

stuttery
24fps as well. Very uneven.

I have tried removing and re-installing all sorts of drivers, upped the

AGP
voltage to 1.6, set the AGP aperture to 256meg, checked in riva tuner and
the clock speeds are OK 500/900. Anyone know what is happening? Oh and I
checked the molex power connector is properly fitted as well. My PSU is a
solid 350watts (not a yum cha brand).

A quick google search showed a few others with a similar issue (on 6800s
though). This thing should be running at least 4 times as fast, it does it
in all games and 3dmark (the space battle on 3dmark03 was only doing

12fps.
My system is clean and recently formatted, no funny tweaks were done to

it -
just a straight ti4200 removed and replaced with a 6600gt. Any ideas?

Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am using

it
now). Core temp is 50 degrees.


Oh, I should add when I load up doom3 the frame rate jumps all over the
place. eg on the main menu with the planet spinning it can be 60fps or
20fps - it flickers between them quickly.

Damo




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Old December 7th 04, 11:34 AM
John Smithe
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"Damo" wrote in
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"Damo" wrote in message
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I have a 2.4ghz P4/512meg/ti4200 and used to get 50fps in the cs:s
stress test with rez at 1024*768.

I just upgraded to a 6600GT and now I get 24fps - and it is a very

stuttery
24fps as well. Very uneven.

I have tried removing and re-installing all sorts of drivers, upped
the

AGP
voltage to 1.6, set the AGP aperture to 256meg, checked in riva tuner
and the clock speeds are OK 500/900. Anyone know what is happening?
Oh and I checked the molex power connector is properly fitted as
well. My PSU is a solid 350watts (not a yum cha brand).

A quick google search showed a few others with a similar issue (on
6800s though). This thing should be running at least 4 times as fast,
it does it in all games and 3dmark (the space battle on 3dmark03 was
only doing

12fps.
My system is clean and recently formatted, no funny tweaks were done
to

it -
just a straight ti4200 removed and replaced with a 6600gt. Any ideas?

Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am
using

it
now). Core temp is 50 degrees.


Oh, I should add when I load up doom3 the frame rate jumps all over
the place. eg on the main menu with the planet spinning it can be
60fps or 20fps - it flickers between them quickly.

Damo






Try going back to the windows default drivers and use Driver Cleaner to
clean all old driver entries from your registry. Then re-install the latest
drivers.

Try at:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/inde...214d207fd484bf
6&

Also get Coolbits or Coolbits3d from guru3d.com to help setting clock
speeds and gaining access to card settings.
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Old December 7th 04, 02:40 PM
MaSTeR
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"Damo" wrote in message
...
I have a 2.4ghz P4/512meg/ti4200 and used to get 50fps in the cs:s stress
test with rez at 1024*768.

I just upgraded to a 6600GT and now I get 24fps - and it is a very

stuttery
24fps as well. Very uneven.

I have tried removing and re-installing all sorts of drivers, upped the

AGP
voltage to 1.6, set the AGP aperture to 256meg, checked in riva tuner and
the clock speeds are OK 500/900. Anyone know what is happening? Oh and I
checked the molex power connector is properly fitted as well. My PSU is a
solid 350watts (not a yum cha brand).

A quick google search showed a few others with a similar issue (on 6800s
though). This thing should be running at least 4 times as fast, it does it
in all games and 3dmark (the space battle on 3dmark03 was only doing

12fps.
My system is clean and recently formatted, no funny tweaks were done to

it -
just a straight ti4200 removed and replaced with a 6600gt. Any ideas?

Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am using

it
now). Core temp is 50 degrees.

Damo

I had the same problem, I updated my mobo bios and from 24fps I get 70 now.
Hope this helps you.


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Old December 7th 04, 04:24 PM
Rob
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similar issues here with my 6800. im told it's because i have old pc133 ram
and
need to upgrade the MB to DDR type RAM. i've been working with eVGA who
manufactured the card and while they don't necessarily agree with that, they
don't disagree either . big help eh?

"Damo" wrote in message
...

"Damo" wrote in message
...
I have a 2.4ghz P4/512meg/ti4200 and used to get 50fps in the cs:s stress
test with rez at 1024*768.

I just upgraded to a 6600GT and now I get 24fps - and it is a very

stuttery
24fps as well. Very uneven.

I have tried removing and re-installing all sorts of drivers, upped the

AGP
voltage to 1.6, set the AGP aperture to 256meg, checked in riva tuner and
the clock speeds are OK 500/900. Anyone know what is happening? Oh and I
checked the molex power connector is properly fitted as well. My PSU is a
solid 350watts (not a yum cha brand).

A quick google search showed a few others with a similar issue (on 6800s
though). This thing should be running at least 4 times as fast, it does
it
in all games and 3dmark (the space battle on 3dmark03 was only doing

12fps.
My system is clean and recently formatted, no funny tweaks were done to

it -
just a straight ti4200 removed and replaced with a 6600gt. Any ideas?

Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am using

it
now). Core temp is 50 degrees.


Oh, I should add when I load up doom3 the frame rate jumps all over the
place. eg on the main menu with the planet spinning it can be 60fps or
20fps - it flickers between them quickly.

Damo






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Old December 7th 04, 05:54 PM
John Lewis
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:54:42 +1000, "Damo"
wrote:

I have a 2.4ghz P4/512meg/ti4200 and used to get 50fps in the cs:s stress
test with rez at 1024*768.

I just upgraded to a 6600GT and now I get 24fps - and it is a very stuttery
24fps as well. Very uneven.

I have tried removing and re-installing all sorts of drivers, upped the AGP
voltage to 1.6, set the AGP aperture to 256meg, checked in riva tuner and
the clock speeds are OK 500/900. Anyone know what is happening? Oh and I
checked the molex power connector is properly fitted as well. My PSU is a
solid 350watts (not a yum cha brand).

A quick google search showed a few others with a similar issue (on 6800s
though). This thing should be running at least 4 times as fast, it does it
in all games and 3dmark (the space battle on 3dmark03 was only doing 12fps.
My system is clean and recently formatted, no funny tweaks were done to it -
just a straight ti4200 removed and replaced with a 6600gt. Any ideas?


Did you downshift to the M$$ plain-vanilla VGA driver and reboot
BEFORE removing the Ti4200 ? A REQUIRED STEP when swapping
video cards.

If not, you now need to use Driver Cleaner 3.x ( very carefully....
print out and follow the instructions !! ) to remove all residual
driver junk. Then re-install the 6600GT driver.

OR

Do a format and clean system re-install.

John Lewis


Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am using it
now). Core temp is 50 degrees.

Damo



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Old December 7th 04, 11:53 PM
Bruin
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Did you downshift to the M$$ plain-vanilla VGA driver and reboot
BEFORE removing the Ti4200 ? A REQUIRED STEP when swapping
video cards.

If not, you now need to use Driver Cleaner 3.x ( very carefully....
print out and follow the instructions !! ) to remove all residual
driver junk. Then re-install the 6600GT driver.


Errrrr they share drivers with the ti4200's do they not? Seems strange to
have to remove old drivers when they are all Nvidia drivers. From Nvidia's
site:

"Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
Part of the NVIDIA Forceware unified software environment (USE). The NVIDIA
UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers.
Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products
work with the same driver software."

OR

Do a format and clean system re-install.


Please no no no not THAT. I got 2-6800GTs on the way right now, one for me
& one for me wife. My build is under 6 months old, 50 gig big, & I spent
many hours setting it up the way I like it. Re-loading 3 CAD programs, 2
CAD data-management programs, half a dozen games, EQ2 being 9 CDs... hell
it would take a solid weekend to start with a new build. That is just MY
machine, then I would have to do the same to my wife's machine!!! GAH

Why should these cards be so different? I went from GF2s to GF4s without a
hitch, no driver issues. Now it's GF4 to GF6... I am plan to switch to
standard VGA before installing, but will I need more than that? Heck I
need to start a new thread on this!! =)


  #8  
Old December 8th 04, 01:26 AM
Ed Light
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"PRIVATE1964" wrote
Yes they do, You should not really need to remove the old drivers, but its
probably a good idea. Just remove them with the add and remove. Shut down
the
computer. Replace the card. Turn on the computer, windows will detect the
new
card and I believe will apply standard default SVGA drivers. Then just
re-install the the Nvidia drivers and that should be it.


On the nvidia driver download page it has a link "Installation Hints."

http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_...ion_hints.html

which agrees with uninstalling the drivers.

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Old December 8th 04, 02:45 AM
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"Ed Light" wrote in message
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"PRIVATE1964" wrote
Yes they do, You should not really need to remove the old drivers, but
its
probably a good idea. Just remove them with the add and remove. Shut down
the
computer. Replace the card. Turn on the computer, windows will detect the
new
card and I believe will apply standard default SVGA drivers. Then just
re-install the the Nvidia drivers and that should be it.


On the nvidia driver download page it has a link "Installation Hints."

http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_...ion_hints.html

which agrees with uninstalling the drivers.

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My guess is none of this solves your problem anyway.


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Old December 8th 04, 04:03 AM
Larry L.
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similar issues here with my 6800. im told it's because i have old pc133
ram
and
need to upgrade the MB to DDR type RAM. i've been working with eVGA who
manufactured the card and while they don't necessarily agree with that,

they
don't disagree either . big help eh?


Given that the original poster's previous card was much faster, his issue is
not due to the rest of his system not being fast enough.

Larry


 




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