Omega Drivers and 3Dmark

[Dethshaft]

I am sorta having a dilemma and thught amybe someone might be able to help.

a few months ago my setup had 512 MB of RAM and a processor running at 2.9. The card I am using is a Sapphire ATI 9800 np flashed to pro. These benches were done with the Catalyst 3.7's. The card is overclocked to 414/380 and my benches are:

2003- 6059
2001- 15,881

Now, with a processor running at 3.33 and 1 gig of RAM, I get a score of 5100-5200 in 3Dmark 2003!!! This is running the omega 3.10's

I uninstall all things ATI, then delete the folder. After that i boot in Safe mode and run the cab cleaner so I know that it isnt left over files cauing this problem.

I have heard that Omega drivers are known to give you lower scores but do they really hurt them this bad?! The only other explanation I might have is a could have damaged my card when removing the heatsink BUT I doubt that because I don't get any weird artifacting (except twice things got a little haywire with artifacting but after a quick restart everything was fine).

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[wannaoc]

From what I understand Omegas are not good for purely benchmarking, they are mainly designed for gaming which accounts for a little lower scores.

 

[Dethshaft]

From what I understand Omegas are not good for purely benchmarking, they are mainly designed for gaming which accounts for a little lower scores.

yeah but this seems like far from a little. I mean 1000 points difference? I would go ahead and uninstall these and put in the Catalysts but I want to know if this is normal or not.

I just did a run of 3dMark 2001 and I yielded 19400 points which is a large increase from what i had before. If I remember correctly, doesnt 2003 test the graphics card more and 2001 tests the RAM and CPU? If so than I can see that the problem is with the drivers.

 

[Dethshaft]

Well I put in the Cat 3.10's and I still get around 5100 in 3Dmark 2003. I just defragged but I have no idea what is going on. If I set the resolution to 800x600 I get 6400 but I do not know what the standard is for comparison. EXACTLY what should I set everything to?

If worse comes to worse I will just reinstall windows and see if that helps