3Dmark2000 and 5.50 drivers(beta) results..

[Kookstick]

I am very happy to say I installed the new beta drivers after using the powerdesk uninstaller(as usual) and went from 2597 to 2615 using 800x600x16 and not overclocking my card.So far I have found no problems with these drivers and the 3dmark2000 demo ran flawlessly including helicopter part. I also played mig alley(just got it) and the graphics are cleaner and better, tried janes ww2 with no probs, have yet to try drakan. Wishing now these would have come out one day sooner before I returned F/A 18 because of incompatibility probs with G400. Thank you for these new drivers and keep up the good work. Cheers

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Asus P2b(1010),P3 500,256 mb pc133,Matrox G400 DH,Asus 50x,Iomega zip,Mitsumi CDR,Ibm 10 gb hd,Sb Live,Win 98

[Himself]

Not sure why, but now the helicoptor bit is working fine here, the only change is a reboot and now I'm overclocking the card again, which is counter intuitive.

Here are my results, seems AMD mode in 3DMark2000 is up to DX7 levels now, even faster now. The individual scores still show Dx7 with an advantage in some areas though.

TEMPLATE
Display:
Type: Internal
Width: 1024
Height: 768
Depth: 16-Bit
Buffering: Triple
Z-Buffering: 16-Bit
Refresh Rate: VSync Off
Texture Format: 16-Bit

<H1>CPU Optimization: D3D Software T&L</H1>

RESULTS
Platform: Internal
3DMark Result: 1724 3D marks
CPU Speed: 86 CPU 3D marks
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail: 38.5 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail: 22.0 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail: 8.5 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail: 43.8 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail: 20.1 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail: 11.0 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 264.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 262.2 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light): 1219 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights): 828 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights): 612 KTriangles/s
8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 215.1 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 191.1 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 113.7 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed: 57.0 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass): 87.1 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass): 124.7 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass): 220.7 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment): 93.8 FPS

<H1>CPU Optimization: AMD 3DNow!(tm)</H1>

RESULTS
Platform: Internal
3DMark Result: 1743 3D marks
CPU Speed: 91 CPU 3D marks
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail: 37.1 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail: 22.9 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail: 8.5 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail: 44.0 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail: 21.0 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail: 11.7 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 264.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 262.2 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light): 1051 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights): 955 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights): 836 KTriangles/s
8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 228.2 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 194.7 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 116.9 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed: 59.0 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass): 76.4 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass): 118.0 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass): 223.4 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment): 93.8 FPS

SYSTEM
Software Versions:
Windows Version Windows 4 B, Build 1212
DirectX Version 4.07.00.0716
Bios Version Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Bios Date 11/30/99

Memory:
Total Physical Memory 128MB
Free Physical Memory 90MB

PROCESSOR
CPU Information:
Processor Type AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor
Processor Speed 448MHz
Processor Caps 3DNow!, MMX

Cache Memory:
L1 Cache Size 64KB
L2 Cache Size 256KB

DESKTOP
2D Display Adapter:
Name Matrox Millennium G400 - English
Driver Date 1- 6-2000

Desktop Size and Color Depth:
Width 1280
Height 960
Color Depth 16 bit

[Io]

Himself.. Just wanna check.. How is the drivers compared to the 5.41? Am an SS7 user here and had to drop back to using 5.30 coz of probs.

Just want to hear some feedback.

Thanks.

[Himself]

My older scores are here:
http://home.thezone.net/~bm/3dmark2k.html

Basically DX7 mode is down 20 pts, AMD mode is up to my previous DX7 scores and now faster than DX7 mode in the new drivers. BUT, the individual scores show the same kind of trend, it's just a fluke of how 3DMark2000 measures it's final score that the tally is higher, the low detail helicopter score is still faster with DX7 mode than AMD mode, and where AMD mode is faster it is only a matter of .5 or so points. Looking at the other scores DX7 mode seems to be faster in general with the odd exception. Wierd results.