Hi, I just purchased a Sparkle 320MB 8800GTS. It was to replace my older 7800GT.
My system is a Pentium 4 3.2GHz 541 system with 2GB DDR2 RAM and a Gigabyte 8I915P Duo-Pro motherboard. Yes, I know you'll say 'its your CPU' but thats definitely not the case.
My friend has an identical system (right down to the mobo) except he has a 7950GT. While I get 30ish FPS in FEAR at highest settings (excluding soft shadows) @1024x768, he never goes below 40 at 1280x1024, 4xAA with soft shadows on. It seems his PC beats mine at every turn.
I got 5058 3DMarks in 06 when I ran it today, which is very low for an 8800GTS I believe. It seems like its just not happy in my system - the Nvidia CP won't let me do more than 4xAA! My 7800GT could do 8x, whats going on? 8800GTS cards are supposed to be able to do 16x!
Anyway, if you could help me out, it would be great, I really need to know if its the card or.. whatever it could be. Thanks.
PS; when I put the card it in ran fine on my 7800GT drivers at boot (158.19) and got the same performance once I installed 158.22 (latest certified drivers for Windows XP). The driver install was clean - I uninstalled the 158.19s, rebooted, did a driver clean, then installed 158.22, so it can't be that..
My system is a Pentium 4 3.2GHz 541 system with 2GB DDR2 RAM and a Gigabyte 8I915P Duo-Pro motherboard. Yes, I know you'll say 'its your CPU' but thats definitely not the case.
My friend has an identical system (right down to the mobo) except he has a 7950GT. While I get 30ish FPS in FEAR at highest settings (excluding soft shadows) @1024x768, he never goes below 40 at 1280x1024, 4xAA with soft shadows on. It seems his PC beats mine at every turn.
I got 5058 3DMarks in 06 when I ran it today, which is very low for an 8800GTS I believe. It seems like its just not happy in my system - the Nvidia CP won't let me do more than 4xAA! My 7800GT could do 8x, whats going on? 8800GTS cards are supposed to be able to do 16x!
Anyway, if you could help me out, it would be great, I really need to know if its the card or.. whatever it could be. Thanks.
PS; when I put the card it in ran fine on my 7800GT drivers at boot (158.19) and got the same performance once I installed 158.22 (latest certified drivers for Windows XP). The driver install was clean - I uninstalled the 158.19s, rebooted, did a driver clean, then installed 158.22, so it can't be that..