Posted October 17, 200519 yr I just purchased a used 6800 GT (AGP Version) off of ebay. So far, I'm not impressed. Benchies: Doom3: 1280x1024 High Quality No FSAA 2x AA Vsync off timedemo demo1 = 32.5 timedemo demo2 = 34.4 System: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ OC'd @ 3200+ 1 GB OCZ Gold DDR3200 ABIT NF7-S2 Mobo Audigy 2 ZS PNY 6800 GT AGP @ Ultra speeds (coolbits) A freind of mine has a slightly better rig, but the same vid card, and is pullin 49 FPS on his first run and 61 FPS on his second! I am running the newest Nvidia drivers, newest drivers for everything for that matter. Help!
October 23, 200519 yr Try testing some of the older drivers, sometimes the older ones work better for the game.
October 23, 200519 yr Author Thanks for the replies. I will try diff drivers. As for the PCIE > AGP, not enough $$$.:snivel:
October 25, 200519 yr The PCI-E 6800s are just as much as the agp As in he cant afford the extra cash to buy a new mobo.
October 29, 200519 yr pci-e video cards cant even saturate an agp slot's bandwidth, pci-e is where we are goin, but no real performance gain atm cuase cards now dont need to transfer more data than an agp slot will give them. as for the rest, perhaps your just a noob? stock drivers? are you oc'ed at all? by tweaking a couple things, your friend could get those fps even with the same system as yours.
October 31, 200519 yr Author I'm gonna bump this thread BC i have a new problem, rather than start a new one. I'm trying to OC the card, and faced serious instabilities running FEAR. So I turned Fast Writes off in the BIOS. But in Windows, the Nvidia control panel reads that fast writes are off in: Chipset OS Optimal But are on in: GPU I cant seem to disable fast writes on the card. Ideas?:rolleyes:
October 31, 200519 yr I don't see why people spend that much on a video card. I can run Doom 3 on ultra settings 1024x768, 8x AF, and stay at 50-80 fps constant, with a drop to about 40 when I go between rooms. This is on a 6600 GT. $130 dollars. My advice is to get more ram than you think you need. A lot of the time, it will make games playable at ultra high settings, even with a shit graphics card. You don't get perfect framerates, but you don't drop $500 to get there.
October 31, 200519 yr My advice is to get more ram than you think you need. A lot of the time, it will make games playable at ultra high settings, even with a shit graphics card. You don't get perfect framerates, but you don't drop $500 to get there. RAM effects loading speeds you jack ass. More RAM = more your computer can store for faster loading. Again, you jack ass. Over all decent SPEED and quality RAM, like corsair paired with a fast AMD = a good computer even with a bad video card. Jack, ass. REHHHHH you raged me with your ignorant post.
November 1, 200519 yr RAM effects loading speeds you jack ass. More RAM = more your computer can store for faster loading. Again, you jack ass. Over all decent SPEED and quality RAM, like corsair paired with a fast AMD = a good computer even with a bad video card. Jack, ass. REHHHHH you raged me with your ignorant post. Cheer up son its not all that bad :)
November 1, 200519 yr Author I don't see why people spend that much on a video card. I can run Doom 3 on ultra settings 1024x768, 8x AF, and stay at 50-80 fps constant, with a drop to about 40 when I go between rooms. This is on a 6600 GT. $130 dollars. My advice is to get more ram than you think you need. A lot of the time, it will make games playable at ultra high settings, even with a shit graphics card. You don't get perfect framerates, but you don't drop $500 to get there. Ok, before you hijack the holy fuck out of my thread, I paid 200$ for this card over ebay, it was a steal. You also added nothing to the discussion about disabling fast writes.
November 1, 200519 yr Ok, before you hijack the holy fuck out of my thread, I paid 200$ for this card over ebay, it was a steal. You also added nothing to the discussion about disabling fast writes. was it 128mb or 256mb?
November 1, 200519 yr Author PNY AGP 6800 GT 256MB GDDR3 (dint know they made GTs in 128MB versions...:rolleyes: )
