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- Jul 15, 2005
I know that I'm supposed to have the full version of 3DMark05 in order to get on a team or do anything "official" with a score, but I thought I'd share this anyway.
I got 3DM recently (free, non-full version) and I've been messing around with it, and until tonight I've been getting lousy scores. My scores are usually 1400-1900, sometimes a lot lower...once even going as high as 2100 or something like that. But they are usually in the lower range I mentioned.
Tonight, a buddy was helping me do some updates to my rig (via chat). I updated the drivers for my chipset and my GPU, went into safe mode, used Driver Cleaner Pro and all that. I've also taken steps to remove all the Spyware stuff using 3 different programs. After installing new drivers, I was totally blown away by my score. Mind you it isn't the highest score in the land, but it is a drastic improvement for my rig. And my buddy even told me I outdid his score. "Blew it out of the water" is what he said. Also note that he has a GigaByte GF6600GT @569/569.
After doing all this stuff, my score tonight was 4,951 3DMarks! Like I said, not the highest or best score in the land by any means, but still a great improvement for me. It was so cool to see the tests go from 1-10 fps to 20-30fps or better. Maybe one of these days I'll bite the bullet and buy the full version.
I got 3DM recently (free, non-full version) and I've been messing around with it, and until tonight I've been getting lousy scores. My scores are usually 1400-1900, sometimes a lot lower...once even going as high as 2100 or something like that. But they are usually in the lower range I mentioned.
Tonight, a buddy was helping me do some updates to my rig (via chat). I updated the drivers for my chipset and my GPU, went into safe mode, used Driver Cleaner Pro and all that. I've also taken steps to remove all the Spyware stuff using 3 different programs. After installing new drivers, I was totally blown away by my score. Mind you it isn't the highest score in the land, but it is a drastic improvement for my rig. And my buddy even told me I outdid his score. "Blew it out of the water" is what he said. Also note that he has a GigaByte GF6600GT @569/569.
After doing all this stuff, my score tonight was 4,951 3DMarks! Like I said, not the highest or best score in the land by any means, but still a great improvement for me. It was so cool to see the tests go from 1-10 fps to 20-30fps or better. Maybe one of these days I'll bite the bullet and buy the full version.
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