ASUS P3V4X - Graphic problems???

[odd]

Hello everybody!

I have problem with my graphic during playing games. Lot of hacks when I play Colin Mcrae Rally 2, such as the forest around me comes up tree by tree. I can solve this in Colin by increase the “drivers distance" from default 2 to a higher value, but this option are not available in other games. My friend is gaming with an Gf2 MX and P2 (same settings resolution etc. as me) and have not such problems. Have tried all possible 4in1 and Nvidia drivers, without any increase of performance.

Since I upgrade my video card from TNT2 M64 to the Inno3D Gf2 Pro i thought everything should be better, but all is still the same. In other considerations the system runs well and with stability.

Do you think I have some hardware defects, as AGP-port?
I run the mobo with jumperfree mode, do you think it´s helping to try manual settings of the jumpers?
Do you have any other suggestions?
Thank you very much for helping me.
(Excuse me for bad english)

 

[Placid]

Have you messed around with agp driving strength?
I belive "ca" is supposed to work best with windows.

 

[J-dogg]

odd (Jun 01, 2001 12:46 p.m.):
Hello everybody!

I have problem with my graphic during playing games. Lot of hacks when I play Colin Mcrae Rally 2, such as the forest around me comes up tree by tree. I can solve this in Colin by increase the “drivers distance" from default 2 to a higher value, but this option are not available in other games. My friend is gaming with an Gf2 MX and P2 (same settings resolution etc. as me) and have not such problems. Have tried all possible 4in1 and Nvidia drivers, without any increase of performance.

Since I upgrade my video card from TNT2 M64 to the Inno3D Gf2 Pro i thought everything should be better, but all is still the same. In other considerations the system runs well and with stability.

Do you think I have some hardware defects, as AGP-port?
I run the mobo with jumperfree mode, do you think it´s helping to try manual settings of the jumpers?
Do you have any other suggestions?
Thank you very much for helping me.
(Excuse me for bad english)

odd,

What 4 in 1 version do you have? Just in case, the latest is v4.31 Final. I had to do the AGP driver manually. Find the latest versions here:

http://www.viahardware.com

Also, what o/s are you using? There is a specific bug fix for Win2k listed as MS AGP FIX.

BTW, there are also some VIA tweaks listed on this site. I have personally tried out the 4-Way Interleave. I did before and after using SiSoft Sandra 2001 memory benchmark. I'm at work and do not have the numbers, but it was a decent boost in performance.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

J-dogg

 

[odd]

Thank you for replay. I have used all 4in1 from 4.17 to 4.31, without help for this problem. Increase the VIO to 3.6V did not helps. I also took out one of the SDRAM and run with 64MB for detect if they were corrupt.
Even tried Slop´s beta4W which set my AGP value to FF. Nothing helps.
Please, do you have any other suggestions?

Regards
Odd

 

[Placid]

http://www.tweak3d.net/faq/faq.cgi

Maybe you can find something here.

 

[outhouse]

Placid is allways the guy with good links

you can also try www.rojakpot.com to make sure your bios is set to its fullest potential

and the biggie do you have sideband disabled in registry?

 

[odd]

Hello!
I currently run Win98SE and have play around with the BIOS without result during reading the BIOS guide you ment. Have already used all newer drivers, both from Nvidia and VIA. Also installed 4in1 separately.

My BIOS is 1005, and I know with Leadtek you have to go backwards to 1003 for get ride of the issues. Do you think this is a good idea?

In the benchmark program wintune, I can read;
3Dnow Present: false
Something wrong?

Thank you very much for trying help me. I´m a swedish guy and had some problems with the english, as you see.

 

[Placid]

Try removing the sb sound card and see if the problem remains.
Also make sure you use agp 2x mode with this card as per asus

http://www.asusnetq.com.tw/English/Component/slot1/mqa_p3v.asp#q4

 

[odd]

Thank you very much everybody.
I have tried the most of the tip you gave me, but the problem persist.
During install 4in1 no drivers install properly in the Device Manager. When I install AGP-driver and IRQ-driver manually, they become properly installed.
"PCI to ISA Bridge", "Power Management Controller" and "CPU to PCI Bridge" are newer able to be installed (impossible to update driver from device manager to), but they would be installed if I use 4in1 drivers older than my Win98SE. In the Device Manager I can also see my hard drive identified as a Generic IDE DISK TYPE47, and it´s impossible to update this manually to, link about it http://forums.matroxusers.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001780.html.
It´s seems as my Win98SE couldn´t identify my hardvare, except for these outside the tower as writer, gamecontrollers etc..
I´m very sad now. Do you think the mobo is corrupt?

Take care of you, helpful guys.

 

[odd]

Hello again!

I have disabled the PCI cards and everything else. Here are my results from Wintune (3Dmark2000 break down after a short time running)

Your results have been saved in the file c:\WinTune Results.html.

Load this file with your browser to continue your system analysis and compare your results to WinTune's extensive database of similar systems.

Summary
Intel Pentium III
(1) 733 MHz
Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Inno3D GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
1024x768@16bits/pixel
2164 MIPS (Integer operations)
852 MFLOPS (Floating point operations)
187 (Integer application simulation)
182 (Floating point application simulation)
185 (MMX application simulation)
110 Video MPixels/s
389 OpenGL MPixels/s
478 Direct3D MPixels/s
320 Direct3D Null driver score
175 Direct3D Primary driver score
1551 RAM MB/s
133 cached disk MB/s
2,9 uncached disk MB/s

System Details

BIOS: Award 06/12/00
Bus: PCI,ISA
APM:
Possible 'hog' apps running: (none)
Other apps running: Current test status; ZAPalProxyWnd; WinTune; WinTune; DDHelpWndClass; Creative Mixer Starter; Energim tare; MS_WebcheckMonitor

CPU Details

CPU load: 0
low MIPS: 1460
CPUID: 0x0683 0x383F9FF
MMX Present: True
3DNow Present: False
Streaming SIMD Extensions Present: True
Processor Serial Number Present & Enabled: False
dhrystone time (s): 0,92
whetstone time (s): 0,012
Integer time (s): 4,2
Floating point time (s): 4
MMX time (s): 5,1

Video Details

AccOpt: Normal
Total video time (s): 5,7
Window open time (s): 0,017
Text scroll time (s): 0,016
Line drawing time (s): 0,57
Filled objects time (s): 0,13
Pattern blit time (s): 0,0071
Text draw time (s): 0,23
DIB blit time (s): 4,7
Window close time (s): 0,0086

OpenGL Details

Time (s): 0,22

Direct3D Details

DirectX Version 600
Time (s): 0,6
Null device test time (s): 4,7
Primary device test time (s): 2,9
Secondary device test time (s): 0

Memory Details

Memory Read Speed (MB/s): 1586
Memory Write Speed (MB/s): 1858
Memory Copy Speed (MB/s): 1209
Installed RAM (MB): 128
Free RAM (MB): 74
Memory used (%): 36
Page File Driver: 32-bit
Total Page File (MB): 150
Free Page File (MB): 99
Read speed, 4 KB blocks, MB/s: 2738
Read speed, 8 KB blocks, MB/s: 2762
Read speed, 16 KB blocks, MB/s: 2724
Read speed, 32 KB blocks, MB/s: 1717
Read speed, 64 KB blocks, MB/s: 1718
Read speed, 128 KB blocks, MB/s: 1718
Read speed, 256 KB blocks, MB/s: 986
Read speed, 512 KB blocks, MB/s: 498
Read speed, 1024 KB blocks, MB/s: 497
Read speed, 2048 KB blocks, MB/s: 496
Write speed, 4 KB blocks, MB/s: 3472
Write speed, 32 KB blocks, MB/s: 1850
Write speed, 256 KB blocks, MB/s: 1727
Write speed, 2048 KB blocks, MB/s: 383
Copy speed, 4 KB blocks, MB/s: 3014
Copy speed, 32 KB blocks, MB/s: 1380
Copy speed, 256 KB blocks, MB/s: 252
Copy speed, 2048 KB blocks, MB/s: 191

Disk Details

Disk Last Scanned: 00:00:00
Disk Last Optimized: 00:00:00

Cached Disk, 128 blocks
Open file time (s): 0,00027
Sequential write time (s): 0,0047
Sequential read time (s): 0,028
Random write time (s): 0,00044
Random read time (s): 0,0019
Close file time (s): 0,00037
Open file bytes: 1024
Sequential write bytes: 524288
Sequential read bytes: 4194304
Random write bytes: 65536
Random read bytes: 262144
Close file bytes: 1024
Open file MB/s: 3,6
Sequential write MB/s: 106
Sequential read MB/s: 140
Random write MB/s: 142
Random read MB/s: 129
Close file MB/s: 2,7

Uncached Disk, 2048 blocks
Open file time (s): 0,00028
Sequential write time (s): 1,1
Sequential read time (s): 0,65
Random write time (s): 1,7
Random read time (s): 2,7
Close file time (s): 0,0013
Open file bytes: 1024
Sequential write bytes: 8388608
Sequential read bytes: 8388608
Random write bytes: 1048576
Random read bytes: 1048576
Close file bytes: 1024
Open file MB/s: 3,5
Sequential write MB/s: 7,4
Sequential read MB/s: 12
Random write MB/s: 0,59
Random read MB/s: 0,37
Close file MB/s: 0,74

Anything wronng?

Best regards
Peter

 

[Placid]

The program says dx 6.0?
Have you updated your win 98 with microsoft?
You should run dx 7.0 at least.