Gainward Geforce FX 5200 card worse then Geforce 4 TI4200?

LoneGreyWolf20

I bought a computer back in March to become my gaming computer. Here are the specs:

Windows 98SE
P4 2.4 GHZ Processor
Geforce 4TI 4200 128mb 8x
512 MBs DDR Ram
C-Media Audio Card

The video card bought with the system slowley started to crap out and I ended up having to get it replaced. I first called the company that I bought teh computer from which will go unamed at this time ( it is isn't a major company BTW ) and they told me they will replace the card for me with a Geforce FX 5200 card free of charge. I got the card today and just installed it a little while ago and ran a Benchmark on it (MasmoBench) and it actually only scored a 548 which is about 300 under what I had scored before with the Geforce 4 card. Looking at other results it seems that this card rates below even a Geforce 3 card and just above a Geforce 2 MX400 card. Is this the norm with this card? Can I get better scores out of it some how?

I have tried to use the Omega drivers for me OS and it tells me that it cannot find Nvidia Disks 1 - 6 or so and then when I skip through it because I don't have these "disks" and I look at my DXDiag it says that the drivers that I have are the same ones before I installed the Omega ones, but it says Omega next to it... is this normal?

Donovan Jones

jaysavesthedayy

dood, your Ti4200 is so much better than FX 5200. A finely tuned 4200 can easily whoop an FX 5200 ultra (in games that arent in DX9 and dont have AA turned on)

realjessy

of course yes!

blah

The FX serires is really not a DX 9 card. Its really pretending. DX 8 is good enough

means96

I have an Asus 8200 Deluxe = G-Force 3. I purchased a 5200 Ultra figuring it would have to work better only to discover a 3D Mark 2003 drop of 265 points, and the graphics werent any better.

Dimension_IV

Well, and I made this discovery. Make sure that GF FX 5200 doesn't have a 64-bit memory bus!

What are the results of some of your other benchmarks? I'd love to know as I just bought a BFG GeForce FX 5200 to replace my dead Ti4600 (too broke to afford a good card).

Wildman95gs-t

I get 10541 on 3DMark2001SE, with settings of 800x600 16 bit with everything turned off. I have gotten 11165 defore my XP2200 crapped out, i get 1811 on 3DMark03
I have a friend that just bought a PNY FX5200 ULTRA 128 Mb and his system is very simular to mine except he has an XP2100+ and a mobo that support 8X mine is only 4X and he gets only around 10000 on 3DMark2001SE, he does get better on 3DMark03, around 2500.

gpuica

maybe we should compare in-game fps...(depends on your computer), i o/c-ed my ti4200 to 270/570

if you hav the nfs:u demo, tell me whats your lowest fps in the first curve with all the cars right in front of you and with these settings (try using FRAPS):

1024x768

Card Settings:
3
LOW
0
OFF
HIGH
OFF
0
1
ON
ON
ON
ON
ON
(tell me if i missed something)

remember: you can use alt+tab to check these settings while in the menu/racing