AMD issues/concerns

[ledzppln6]

I recently switched from a p4 2.8 ghz to the athlon 64 x2 4400+ in hopes of increased gaming performance. Although the games run smooth, Doom 3 runs no where near what I read it would run at as far a frames per second

My System:
Amd Athlon 64 x2 4400+
1 gig of ram
BFG Geforce 6800 GT
MSI K8N Neo Platinum 2 Motherboard
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs gamer edition

I'm currently running Doom 3 at only about 55 frames per second, it doesn't make a difference if i run it on high or medium for some reason. I was wondering if there's something I haven't installed or am not doing with my hardware, or if that's the max performance I'll ever be able to get with it, any help would be appreciated.

 

[Hefemeister]

do you have the newest drivers for you board and vid card installed? Video card will make a bigger diffenence in fps than cpu.

 

[ledzppln6]

I got all the latest nvidia drivers for both my video card and my board (being as the board uses the nforce 3 chipset)

 

[NosBoost300]

ya.. open gl games are just weird... just like in quake 4 when i played ultra quality 2xAA... and no aa, it made almost no difference on fps hit on my 7900gt/x1900xt

 

[Hefemeister]

so yo have installed both the forceware video card driver. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.47.html assuming you are running xp and not media center. and the newest nforce3 driver from the internet http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce3_winxp_5.11 ?

ps install the chipset driver first

 

[ledzppln6]

Just reinstalled all those drivers in the order specified, did a time demo at 54.8 seconds with doom 3...i know somethign has to be wrong because my brother's running a sempron machine with the bfg geforce 6600, and on medium he can get almost 95 frames per second...even with this machine on medium i still get only 55

 

[OatesyX]

yours brothers machine must be on like 800X600 resolution cuz that seems a bit high, check your resolution and anyways, theres nothing wrong with 55 fps on high settings

 

[vipercrazed]

^^ exactly......

what did you shoot for, 130?

 

[ledzppln6]

I'm just concerned because i thought my system would be capable of much more impressive benchmarks than what I'm seeing