[goliath]

i dont no y this is happening im only getting 6500 in 3dmark 2001

is this card meant to br this slow?

i 'upgraded' from a gf4 mx coz the visuals stink on that (i had a 5900 in between but sold it coz ive been lured by the 12000 score of the 6800)

this is a temporary solution till the next gen cards will b on the market and affordable

i installed unreal 2 and i let it autodetect setting; its really slow and choppy

the rest of my sys is:

p4 2ghz
512 mb RAM
XP pro with sp1

is this card meant to be slower than a gf4mx or the old geforce 3? i cant find any direct comparisions

please help

[Dark Biene]

please take a look here
it´s a comparision with some other cards (german) but the pics will say more *smile*

tested cards:
5. HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800Pro IceQ-Edition, Tyan Tachyon G9800Pro, Sapphire 9800Pro Atlantis, PowerColor Evil Commando2, Sapphire 9600Pro Atlantis
5b. Tyan Tachyon 9600Pro, Gigabyte GV-R96P128D, Apollo Devil Monster 3, HIS Radeon 9200 ViVo
6. Asus V9950Ultra, MSI FX5900U-VTD256, MSI 5900TD und Pixelview FX5900
6b. MSI GeForceFX 5800 Ultra, MSI FX5600-VTDR128 und AOpen Aeolus FX5600
6c. Albatron FX5200U und PixelView GeForce FX5200
7. Albatron GeForce4 Ti4800-V Medusa, Albatron GeForce4 Ti4800SE Medusa und Albatron GeForce4 Ti4400
8. MSI Ti4800SE 8X, MSI Ti4200 VTP8X, MSI 4600 VTD und Sparkle GeForce4 Ti4200-8x
9. AOpen GeForce 3 Ti200-DV, MSI GeForce 3 Ti200Pro VT, Pixelview Ti200 und Asus V8200 Ti2 Deluxe
10. Ennyah Digicolor GF 4MX440, Asus V7700Ti Deluxe und AOpen GF 2Ti VO
11. ATi Radeon 8500 64MB, 7500 und 64 ViVo

direct 3dmark2001 benchmark with a Rad 9200 is here


all Links from au-ja.org

[Mertsch]

wow that card is really damn slow LMAO ...
but didn't u know that ... those cards are just passiv cooled and just like the FX5200 its an office card ...
but to have a look the frame rates ...
1. take www.3dcenter.org/atuner and set everything in the 6 fields to OFF! or application ...
2. make sure shadows are off in UT/any other game

[goliath]

i knew it was slow; as i sed its a temporary upgrade from an mx coz i want 2 save my money and get a new generation card

if atis budget is a slimmed down 9800 like the 9000 was an 8500 i will hopefullty be able to get an athlon 64 this summer.... just gaming with this is so bad....

[pils]

i knew it was slow; as i sed its a temporary upgrade from an mx coz i want 2 save my money and get a new generation card

if atis budget is a slimmed down 9800 like the 9000 was an 8500 i will hopefullty be able to get an athlon 64 this summer.... just gaming with this is so bad....

lol!! u will never buy one then!! you need to start somewhere, and with today's price/performance ratio there isnt a better time!

stop waiting and being a cheap skate ....

[dredlock]

Wow lol.....sounds to me that you seriously bought this card to be a big performer and your mom said she would only spend 99.99 on you. If you seriously thought a 9200 would be capable of pulling 12,000 in 3dmark '01, then I really dont think you would know how to build an AMD 64 correctly. Im not here to put you down though...this is just my opinion....GOD I LOVE FORUMS!!!

[goliath]

yeh Dredlock i kind of know that its a budget card... it was £39- dont mean to diss u but i dont scab off my parents money, kind of grew out of that when i was 12... :finger:

whats the point of spending £200 now when in a month that £200 is gna get u a lot more bang for ur buck?? the 9600pro actually beats the ti4600 with all the nice AA + AF enabled, which is more important than pure speed.

i think i 4got 2 mention it but i have exams so im only light gaming. i just wanted to know if the card is MEANT to be that slow- this is a temporary card...

[dredlock]

then dont post in forums and go study...if your light gaming then dont complain with what ya got....plus sounds to me you need to do a lil more research before you come in here..i can list 5 things why the MX kicks the 9200 ass in 3dmark 01 ...ill give you 1. hmmmm memory bandwidth?

[goliath]

hey smartass they have the same memory bandwidth... maybe its you who needs to read up b4 u dish sh*t out

[dredlock]

lol damn man..im just posting my opinions...nothin bad about you geez....dont get your panties in a twirl and all get along in here...

[Mertsch]

woooooooo woooooooooooo
cool down !!!!
if this ain't going to stop here I will stop this ...
damn its just a GPU not a girlfriend ... so shake hands and be friends

I was in sucha situation once, too
everyone could do a fault when expecting something else then you got ... hey this happens any day any time
I upgraded from a GF2GTS to a MX440 and whooo I payed losta bugs for it but the performance increase was like 5% ? ... argh the only thing now useful on this card was the damn TV Out ... at least I could make use of this one

[dredlock]

I just wanna say...the only good use for an ATI 9200 is inside a notebook over an FX 5200....ohh and to the guy with the 9200 probs.....have you gone into your BIOS and altered your AGP Apature size at all...or enabled fast write...or maybe have it on the right agp speed? I belive the 9200 is a 4x

[goliath]

Mertsch lol ur a joker!!!!

yeh ive dun everything i can with it. im not overclocking as there really is no point.

i guess im probs upset coz the last card i had in here was a fx5900; as i sld it for more than i brought it i shouldnt be whining :hmm:

dredlock i think ur right this isnt even a light gamer card... its crap; i guess i did get my panties in a twirl...

u get what u pay for....

[Gunny2k2]

:hail: :beer:

Personaly i like ATi's better for image quality , sure they dont have the same speed as an nVidia card but each compnay has to have different experties to be competitive in this day and age,

My Laptop;
P4 3.20Ghz HT 800FSB
1Gb 333Mhz Corsair Ram
40Gb 4200rpm Fujitsu HD
ATi Mobility Radeon 9600 128Mb

My Pc;
AMD 2Ghz 2400XP+
1Gb 333Mhz Corsair Ram
2x IBM 120gbs ata100, 1 x Maxtor 40gb ata133 HD's
ATi Radeon 9600XT 128Mb

Both systems run Unreal Tournament 2004 on FULL/HIGHEST GFX , ok laptop is slow cause HD and PC slow cause CPU/HD's

but they run flawlessly which is what counts to me and both these sytems are my first ATi Cards, i ve had nVidia cards since they made the dam TNT2 Model 64 and Geforce 256 Pro (those where the days hey ???? )

[goliath]

ok now im relly confused

i load up unreal tournament 2003 with 2xAA and 16X AF with default settings ie 800*600 and i got massive amounts of corruption

i tried again 3 times; without AA/AF it was ok

now i just tried it after leaving it off for a few hours with AA/AF and no problems.

im beggining to think my RAM is the culprit. i ran memtest up to 73% before i lost patience and its found no errors. i also did the bios check thing and thats fine

what the hell is going on :knife: ?????

[Mertsch]

UT 2k3 / 2k4 uses heavy textures ... heavy in size ... if you now activate AF + AA you increase this even more
now ur card is simply overloaded and textures simply do not get rendered ... any screenshot made ?