Has anyone had trouble with the GF4 and XP?
System AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz 300+ MB RAM, ECS K7AMA mainboard.
latest Detonator Driver. DX 8.1
Installing the Gforce 4 into the above XP machine, we expected to see something blazing fast. What we found were, the demos played horrible, dropping frames, choppy... The Squid demo was horrible, wolfman yuck...
So then we tried Unreal Tournament 4.36, when choosing D3D we had absolutely awful performance, with dropped frames and stutering mouse movement, selecting a resolution change would hang Unreal for a full 30 sec or so until it kicked in. If you backed out and chose OpenGL all the stuttering would go away and gameplay would be more fluid, but the openGL is so dark it makes it almost imposible to play...
Nascar 3's performace in D3D was lackluster as well, OpenGL performance was better, but not what was expected from a $400 video card...
Question is, what CPU is appropriate to run with the GF4 to get the best performance? What settings are suggested in XP to get this card to run correctly. It seems the GF4 works better with windows 98x, is it suggested to just run 9x OS instead of XP... Just the reviews I've read and the benchmarks I've seen and actually installing the card and seeing it operate this way was somewhat dissapointing. I am sure it's configuration of the OS and hardware to get it to work best. I'm up for any suggestions you may have. I always liked NVIDIA's graphics cards and this is the first major speed bump I've run into with'em.....
Thanks for any info or suggestions you could provide..
..Corn
System AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz 300+ MB RAM, ECS K7AMA mainboard.
latest Detonator Driver. DX 8.1
Installing the Gforce 4 into the above XP machine, we expected to see something blazing fast. What we found were, the demos played horrible, dropping frames, choppy... The Squid demo was horrible, wolfman yuck...
So then we tried Unreal Tournament 4.36, when choosing D3D we had absolutely awful performance, with dropped frames and stutering mouse movement, selecting a resolution change would hang Unreal for a full 30 sec or so until it kicked in. If you backed out and chose OpenGL all the stuttering would go away and gameplay would be more fluid, but the openGL is so dark it makes it almost imposible to play...
Nascar 3's performace in D3D was lackluster as well, OpenGL performance was better, but not what was expected from a $400 video card...
Question is, what CPU is appropriate to run with the GF4 to get the best performance? What settings are suggested in XP to get this card to run correctly. It seems the GF4 works better with windows 98x, is it suggested to just run 9x OS instead of XP... Just the reviews I've read and the benchmarks I've seen and actually installing the card and seeing it operate this way was somewhat dissapointing. I am sure it's configuration of the OS and hardware to get it to work best. I'm up for any suggestions you may have. I always liked NVIDIA's graphics cards and this is the first major speed bump I've run into with'em.....
Thanks for any info or suggestions you could provide..
..Corn