What are your 3DMark2000 scores?

[Poor Student]

Rowan: I wish I can afford to go PC133!

[TTCharon]

How Shortly? Well Wombat, just let them. HeHe

Oh! and like ParaKnowYa, I'm using using quality PC100 Ram as well.

[Arsa]

I have 5.04 drivers (in W2K) and 3Dmark hangs (actualy dies) in different situations and different points. Always in explosion of helicopter or rocket launch.
Demo works fine though.

Is that the reason to go to 5.06? ;-)

[Nuno]

With 5.06 I was able to complete several times a 3dmark2k run. That never hapenned before. It scored around 2600, 100 points lower than in win98.

[Damien Green]

Cheers Arsa - I thought that I was the only one with the 3D Mark problem under Win 2K - my situation sounds almost exactly the same as yours. Are you by any chance running an Athlon system? I ask this because if I tell the program to ignore the 3DNOW instructions - the helecopter section no longer crashes - however, other portions of the benchmark still sends my machine hurtling back to the desktop.

5.06 - at least the beta drivers haven';t completely solved the problem - however, with each driver release, 3D Mark seems to run with more stability, there one once a time when I couldn't even run the demo - I'm happy to say that it now runs sweetly.

[Arsa]

Damien Green:
Yep, ASUS K7V (bios 1005) + Athlon 700.
Unfortunately I was not able to find how to turn 3DNOW off (that is there is ony one option without 3DNOW - D3D T&L - and it still crashes).

What's interesting, is that sometimes I got through helicopter scene (it actualy hanged in two points - on rocket launch and on helicopter destruction) on some resolutions/color depths.
And next part where it hangs is dessipating whomen

And another thing. Descent 3 demo2. Looks the same for me - when I launch rocket to kill first robot descent dies exactly the same way when rocket reaches target... ;-)

Oh, and look here... ;-) http://www.madonion.com/forum/showfl...000&Number=721

[This message has been edited by Arsa (edited 17 May 2000).]

[JohnT]

Fellow w2k'ers -
I have tried to install 3DMark2000 on w2k, but have never been able to because I get an error a the start of the actual install (after the directory is selected, etc). The error is this: error occured during move data process: -113 D:\Docume~1\Admini~1.c55\Locals~1\Temp\WZ51E.tmp\d ata1.hdr (whew - try typing that fast!) If I stop at that point and pull up explorer, data1.hdr is not in the named directory (already moved or never there??).

Any ideas on how to correct this or what might be wrong? W2k is on the D: drive and there is plenty of free space (~ 800 MB), and I have tryed dling the file again with the same result.

I have an even stranger error when I try to run UTBench on UT. The demo seems to play without errors, but when I enter the commands timedemo 1, followed by demoplay UTbench, I get the following error (UTbench is in the requested dir per readme):

Assertion failed: Actor class[ FileE:\unreal220\Engine\Src\UnChan.cpp[]line:712]. There are several other lines following the top one, but I didn't copy all of those down. When I click OK, I am back at the screen there before I started UT and UT is closed. The E:\ really throws me, because UT is on the D: drive and I have not pointed to my E: drive at all (so far as I know).

Again, any ideas why this error is occurring? I am trying to run UTbench on the UT demo 3.48, is this possible or is the full version required?

JohnT

[This message has been edited by JohnT (edited 17 May 2000).]

[Arsa]

JohnT:
That's known problem: that happens because installer (or unpacker - depends) fails to get to your Temp directory, which changed from Windows NT and 9x.

That happened when I changed my locale settings (to russian that is ;-), but it seems that it's not the cause.

What I do most of the time, is manualy unpack exe file (which is actualy self-extractable) and run setup.exe after that.

[JohnT]

Arsa -

Well, now, that was an intesting exercise - I have never manually extracted the files in a self extracting .exe file before Hoowever, now that it's installed, it crashes back to the desktop at the instant the rocket hits the first enemy helicopter - just as described in a previous msg. Oh well

Any ideas on my UTbench problem?

Thanks for the help with getting 3Dmark2000 installed!

JohnT

[Damien Green]

Yep Arsa - you've got the same options as me - I used D3D software T & L - at fiorst this looked like the answer - the system benchmarked properally (al;beit at a much reduced speed - lack of 3D NOW instructions) Unfortunately - I;ve just tried this again and it no longer works for me - same problem as before. Your problem sounds as if it's exactly the same as mine - the benchmark either crahes just as the rocket is fired or on the explosion. I've heard of people with PIII running 3D Mark under Win 2000 without any problems - so I assume it's an Athlon, 3D Mark 2000 and Win 2K issue (it works okay under Win 98SE).

I have eliminated the following possible causes:

1. Motherboard - I have two Athlons - one with an Asus K7M and one with an Abit KA&. These boards have completely different AGP chipsets - and yet the problem occurs on both.

2. Graphics card - I have the G400 Max in one machine and a Nvidia TNT2 Ultra in the other - again same problem occurs on both machines.

3. All other cards in my system - I've tried running with just the graphics card in both systems - same result.

4. CPU, Graphics card overheating - neither of these components are overclocked - I have a Global win VO32+ heatsink on the Athlon (which now runs at a constant 32 degrees centigrade) - The Matrox card alwys feels cool to the touch - I've even tried blowing a cold hairdryer constantly over the card during the benchmarking progress - no change.

Basically it all narrows down to a bug in the graphics card drivers - a bug in 3D Mark 2000 when running on an Athlon under Win 2K - or a bug in Win 2K and Direct 3D again related to the way in which the Athlon is handled.

Hope this helps sopmewhat - not a solution but a process of elimination.

[Arsa]

Ok, now the question is wether it is
1) G400 drivers (I have 5.04)
2) viaagp driver
3) 3DMark itself on AMD processors

Basicaly what we need is somebody to test it on K6 (6!) on W2K on G400... ;-)
Oh, and could you test it in Windows98? I don't have it...

BTW, look at here: http://www.madonion.com/forum/showfl...collapsed&sb=5

Maybe there will be some answers...

[ALBPM]

I hope you guys are submitting these high scores to MadOnion?????

The G400 seems to have fallen towards the bottom due to lack of submissions.

Lets get it back up!!!

Paul

[SteveC]

JohnT - I believe 3dmark2k MUST be installed into C:\Program Files\MadOnion.

Give that a go.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[JohnT]

SteveC -

Ok, I give it a try on C:. As it is, I can run the first three tests if I disable 3Dnow! but it crashes with the following error as the second set of tests are to be started: File \data\GameScene2\level\dorf.ldb is corrupt.

Using Find, now such file is found anywhere on the PC - the closest match is Gamescene2.ras in the D:\Program Files\MadOnion.com directory. I tried dling a new copy, manually extracting the individual files, and reinstalling a new copy in a different directory on D:, but get the same result.

I'll try the C: drive and see if that makes any difference. Most of the w2k stuff is on D: because NT4 is on C:

JohnT

[SteveC]

that \level\dorf.ldb is a file which is inside that gamescene2.ras file - it gets generated on the fly. Usually you only get that error if your PC is overclocked.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"