EVGA 6800 Blues, Help!

LedHed · Apr 16, 2005, 08:02 AM

Systems Specs:

SY-KT600 DRAGON PLUS v.1.0 Motherboard
AMD XP3200+
1.5g Corsair PC3200
GeForce 6800 Driver 7.1.8.4
XP Pro Full Install w/ Service Pack 2
200gig SATA Western Digital
420W Thermaltake Purepower Power Supply
6 Channel Onboard VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller (WDM)

FYI I got a 8367 In 3dMark03 (shouldnt I be getting higher with my sys?)

My problem begins in Counter-Strike Source. I previously had an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 128mb card running the game mostly high with no filtering at 70-80fps avg. I stuck my 6800 into the machine expecting a tremendous increase in performance. I told Windows to let me install the drivers on my own when prompted then I choose the 71.84 drivers from NVIDIA's website. Installed the drivers all went flawlessly. Entered Counter-Strke Source and was immediately dissapointed. I am running at framerates around 30-40 fps and I noticed a lot more settings were turned on so I turned it back down to what I had it set at with no filtering or anything just plain Triple Buffering and still I am running slower than my 9500 Pro was.

My opinion is that my motherboard thinks the card is PCI. The card is in the AGP slot with 8x enabled in bios. However when you go to Device Manager and look at the display adapters properties windows shows the location as PCI Bus 1. Also in 3dMark03 it shows beside the card properties PCI instead of AGP. As shown below.

PCI

Name NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Vendor ID 0x10de
Device ID 0x0041
SubSystem ID 0xa3433842
Revision ID 0x00a1

Then down below this at motherboard info it says under agp.

AGP

Revision 3.5
Rate 4x, 8x (8x enabled)
Available Rate 0x0000000c
Selected Rate 0x00000008
Aperture Size 0 B
Sideband Addressing supported (enabled)
Fast Write not supported

All of my PCI slots say

Designation PCI0 Type
PCI Characteristics 5.0V, PME Signal
Data Bus Width 32 b
Details Available, Long
IRQ 0

This making me think my motherboard is confused and thinks this card is in a PCI slot?

But then finally when I go down to the AGP slot it says:

Slot 5/5 (AGP)

NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Order 0
Designation AGP
Type AGP
Characteristics 5.0V
Data Bus Width 32 b
Details In Use, Long
Device Class Display Adapter
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Driver Version 7.1.8.4
Driver Date 2-24-2005
IRQ 16

Does anyone have any idea on why I am having such poor FPS in CS:S. Or does my mobo think my card is PCI? Sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Resistor · Apr 16, 2005, 09:07 AM

Use driver cleaner to clear all the old stuff left by Catalyst.. Try taht first..

LedHed · Apr 16, 2005, 09:43 AM

Already did that before I installed anything.

jasonbourne · Apr 16, 2005, 10:02 AM

u have to update ur chipset,agp drivers that will sort ur problem

LedHed · Apr 16, 2005, 10:09 AM

But I may be wrong about it thinking it is PCI? Just awhile ago it showed purple textures on a video stress test for CS:S and I have nothing unlocked this thing is running stock.

MiDKnYtE · Apr 16, 2005, 04:49 PM

if it's all stock, then you're in the correct range. Your cpu is probably bottlenecking the score.

http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.c...ml#3dmark_2003

LedHed · Apr 17, 2005, 10:48 AM

If I am in the correct range why am I performing so poorly in CS:S? Doom3 runs on high settings 1024x768 with 60 fps avg.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Apr 17, 2005, 12:29 PM

Well a good start would be....

install the latest chipset drivers:
http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/dr...4in1_v456v.zip

delete all files in C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\ and C:\WINDOWS\Temp
goto start, run, type
sfc /purgecache
then hit enter...

goto start run type %SystemRoot%\system32\cleanmgr.exe hit enter
click the more options tab, under system restore click clean up, select yes, then ok

defrag the HDD

reboot.....

Also, if you havn't already download and install, update and run
S&D's spybot. lavasofts's adaware, and spyware blaster

LedHed · Apr 17, 2005, 12:36 PM

Thanks for the help again

What are those files in the Prefetch folder? Never heard of the folder before.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Apr 17, 2005, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LedHed

Thanks for the help again

What are those files in the Prefetch folder? Never heard of the folder before.

windows prefetcher stores data for every application ever opened on your pc it's a good thing, speeds up application launch but it builds up and bog things down and wastes memory over time it good to clean it out once in a while....especally since you changed your video card brand!

may not help a while lot but should help a little all systems....