if im benchmarking...

[Matthius]

when im using 3dmark, what should my settings be in properties on the desktop thingie? should i have aa off as well as texture sharpening? and what about that other thingie and texture quality?

[Sazar]

Originally posted by Matthius
when im using 3dmark, what should my settings be in properties on the desktop thingie? should i have aa off as well as texture sharpening? and what about that other thingie and texture quality?

to get best score... you normally reduce all your IQ settings....ie to performance/best performance or whatever the control panel says...

since I have not used any dets in the 3x.xx series and higher I am not aware of the other settings so I will let the experts help you out there :)

the less the IQ.. the higher the score should be... per se... in the range of perhaps a few hundred 3dmarks on 3dmark03... dunno what it would be on 3dmark2001SE for nvidia cards... my variance from performance to quality settings is not that great... so I just bench on balanced all the time...

and yes.. AA/AF should be turned off unless you specifically want to bench and check scores with it turned on..

[Matthius]

cool. thanks. why dont u use the newer drivers?

[AgentX]

Yuo turn everything off AA, AF, mipmap detail, texture sharpening and make sure more than anything that vsync is off.

[jAkUp]

Originally posted by Matthius
cool. thanks. why dont u use the newer drivers?

he has a raddy.

[Matthius]

oh...yeah... right. that makes a lot of sense..detonators on a radeon...crap.:afro:

[ragejg]

did you increase yer 3dmk2k1 scores yet (did you find the bottleneck in your system)?

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YOu can also play with LOD bias in rivatuner if you have that installed...

heh, or is that a cheat?:angel: