I replaced my Geforce Ti4600 with a Geforce FX 5900 yesterday. I benchmarked the 4600 using 3dMark03 before I removed it and got a reading of around 1750. I installed the 5900 by totally reformatting a new hard drive and doing a clean install of Windows XP Home. I have installed and updated the Nvidia drivers, the Soundblaster drivers, and my motherboard/chipset drivers so that they are all current. I have also downloaded the most recent version of Direct X 9 from Microsoft.
Well, I benchmarked the FX5900 and got a reading of about 5100 marks or so(compared to 1750 from the Ti4600)! I was pretty ecstatic and was eager to see how smooth my games were going to run. Well to my surprise, I'm getting a real slide show at times in both HALO and Medal of Honor! I had no problems running either of these with my previous setup and with much lower benchmark scores. I have the latest patches to both games and have tried lowering the in-game settings as well as reducing lowering the values of my card at the desktop but to no avail. does anyone know how I could get such high scores in 3DMark and still run my games so poorly?
My Specs:
Alienware Area 51
P4 2.4 Ghz
Asus P4T-E Motherboard (Intel 850 chipset)
Geforce FX 5900
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer
512 Mb PC800 RDRAM (Samsung)
Well, I benchmarked the FX5900 and got a reading of about 5100 marks or so(compared to 1750 from the Ti4600)! I was pretty ecstatic and was eager to see how smooth my games were going to run. Well to my surprise, I'm getting a real slide show at times in both HALO and Medal of Honor! I had no problems running either of these with my previous setup and with much lower benchmark scores. I have the latest patches to both games and have tried lowering the in-game settings as well as reducing lowering the values of my card at the desktop but to no avail. does anyone know how I could get such high scores in 3DMark and still run my games so poorly?
My Specs:
Alienware Area 51
P4 2.4 Ghz
Asus P4T-E Motherboard (Intel 850 chipset)
Geforce FX 5900
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer
512 Mb PC800 RDRAM (Samsung)