Man, what gives? my system appears to be a (mini) beast but i run games with very little fps. I can run unreal tourney 2k4 and doom3 but the fps are just terrible. In unreal tourney i get 50-60 fps on the torlan map playing onslaught on medium texture for everything and resolution at 840x. On doom3 it tells me to play it with medium detail on 640x resoultion. The only game i can play with full high quality settings including anti aliasing is quake 3 arena, but on certain maps i get 90 fps also. Now that you've read my frames time to be astonished(maybe) at my under performing system! AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (2200 MHz, NEWCASTLE s939) MSI k8t Neo2-F 512 Mb (one stick pc3200) BFG Geforce 6800 OC 128mb i've downloaded MSI Live update to update the motherboard drivers (Sound and Via and realtrek) And i also have DirectX 9.0c (says EVEREST HOME VERSION, didnt know i had it) and i also have windows xp updated .... and i have downloaded the NVIDIA forceware driver for my video card Version 71.89 and i have 6 fans in my computer 2 blowing in 2 blowing out a gpu fan and heatsink.. and i have a 450 watt powersupply..... so WHAT'S THE DEAL?

Not being familiar with your board but have you installed the chipset drivers ?? IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool

ER.. i dunno

:( ok i checked, yes i downloaded the VIA Chipset Drivers already and its up to date. (ran MSI Live update and checked)

Hi what performance results do you get running a benchmark eg Aquamark or 3dmark 03 (not3dmark05) 50-60 fps in ut04 is more than sufficient for gameplay, , is vsync on or off? though lower screen res is not, as youve found. my 6600gt runs at 1027 at 50fps full detail so yes theres a driver issue i think. Try older version of nvidia driver, fully unistall the latest one 1st. I take it oc is the brand? if overclocked can you run it standard? Also have you put the ram stick in the right slot green channel A? DIMM 2 NOT DIMM1. apparently this is important on the k8t. btw version of directx can be found by typing dxdiag , in the start/run box.

Ah. Thanks for your nice post. Well vsync was enabled then i turned it off and tried unreal 2k4 again and it was a tiny bit better in fps but doom3 was the same.. i havent tried 3dmark or aquamark yet.. I have a BFG 6800 OC 128mb (it comes from the manufacturer overclocked a bit) I recently installed a file that will let me fix clocking speeds to whatever i want.. so i will try the normal 6800 speeds.. Dxdiag only has 'Version 9 or higher' i cannot find exactly where it says 9.0c is the version.. and my 1 stick of 512mb ram pc3200 is in the slot furthest right so i think thats ok.

AQuaMark3 Scores (first time ever doing it) Processor: Vendor: AuthenticAMD Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ SpeedMHz: 2200 Type: 0 Family: 15 Model: 15 Stepping: 0 Flags: 0xE1D3FBFF Number: 1 HyperThreading: n/a MemoryOS: 536330240 Graphics: Description: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Vendor: 4318 Device: 65 SubSys: 0 Revision: 161 CoreClock: 5 MemoryClock: 1 Driver: nv4_disp.dll DriverVersion: 6.14.10.7189 VideoMemory: 128974848 TextureMemory: 243269632 OperatingSystem: Version: Microsoft Windows XP Type: Build: Service Pack 2 2600 Run0: DisplayWidth: 1024 DisplayHeight: 768 DisplayDepth: 32 AntialiasingMode: 0 AntialiasingQuality: 0 AnisotropicFiltering: 4 DetailLevel: 4 AvgFPS: 55.954353 MinFPS: 22.157953 MaxFPS: 128.000000 AvgFPSRender: 84.379791 AvgFPSSimulation: 166.060883 AvgTrianglesPerSecond: 16844060 MinTrianglesPerSecond: 2545615 MaxTrianglesPerSecond: 38698900 AquamarkScoreRender: 8436 AquamarkScoreSimulation: 8303 AquamarkScore: 55954