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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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"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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"Damo" wrote in
: "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 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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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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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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"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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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$$ plain-vanilla VGA driver and reboot BEFORE removing the Ti4200 ? A REQUIRED STEP when swapping video cards. If not, you now need to use Driver Cleaner 3.x ( very carefully.... print out and follow the instructions !! ) to remove all residual driver junk. Then re-install the 6600GT driver. OR Do a format and clean system re-install. John Lewis Not playing games everything is fine, no artefacts or freezes (I am using it now). Core temp is 50 degrees. Damo |
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Did you downshift to the M$$ 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!! =) |
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Thanks for all the replies - I wasnt about to format either :-)
The update is I have another 6600GT which runs very fast so the original card I had was faulty somehow - a very weird fault, but it was slow in another computer as well so back to the manufacturer it goes. Thanks again, Damo |
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