Computer problemFollow

Asking for a friend, he got:

Using Athlong 64 3200+
1Ghz RAM
Geforce FX5600 Ultra

The benchmark 2 is 3000 at hi resolution....

Is is normal??

well some of us are having the game completely exit on us after a lil while anywhere from 30sec-2min for me, and i got 3.2gig ati mibility radeon 9k with new drivers, 512mg ram. when running at 1600x1200 it would dump me out REAL quick, when running at 1024x768 res with 1024x1024 background in let me play just a lil longer, then when i play with background at 520x520(i think thats what it is) i never get dumped... what the hell is up with that. ive heard other people having this problem and they say its the video card, like the game doesnt like ati cards or something, this is the first game ive played that would dump me out for no reason (that i know of at least) very annoying

Probably some Program forcing itselt to the 'Foreground' of the PC...

maybe?

The AMD Athlon 64 3200+ does exist :)

They even have 3400+ :)

It just not too smooth in the game with 1024 configuration and closed a lot of details. For a CPU power like that and a middle range VGA card, I thought the score would be more like 4000 to 5000 range??

On the other hand, my system can score 5500 last time I did or more with only amd 2100+ overclock to 2.2ghz and a radeon 9800 pro bios hck to 9800 pro... and playing in full details and 1600x1200 never lag a bit

So I thought as cpu speed, it's similar(or the amd 64 is a bit better since its 1mb cache with default 200fsb... not sure if that 64 bit will be an advantage but I heard not), fsb is the same(200mhz ram)... the only difference is the vga card and that's a big different in the benchmark 2 score we got

You can find it on the playonline website (www.playonline.com) It will be on your left after you choose your country.

And as for the computer issue...

Maybe you have a firewal enabled and it is kicking you out when the game updates. It happend to me a lot until I noticed that in the firewall settings FFXI wasn't set to be a trusted program that access the net. I would be able to log in, play for a while, than *poof* I would be looking at my desktop :-\

I too suspect that your video card is the problem. With Athlon 64 3200+ you and a high quality video card you should expect to see high res benchmarks in excess of 5000.

I have a 2.4ghz P4, 1 gig corsair PC3200, ASUS P4C800D 800FSB, ATI 9800 Pro 128mb.

With no overclocking of the CPU or Video card my high res benchmark score is 5006. Even in low res it only jumps to 5100 and change.

If I over clock the video card, as much as I'd risk without creating artifacts, I can only get the high res up to 5076.

I'm not fussed. Running FRAPS shows the game running at 30 FPS almost all the time and only drops to 20 FPS at the AH when really busy. The game is limited to 30 FPS. I higher score is not necessary. I currently run the game in 1024X768 with a 1024X1024 overlay. All the options are maxed. Although I can't see any visual improvement by turning on mip-mapping or manually setting FSAA etc, so I leave them in their default settings.

One question I have is that when I overclock the CPU by either 10% or 20% my benchmark scores actually drop. Anyone got a bone they could throw me on this?

Anyone out there have a machine that tops 6000 or 7000 on the benchmark? If so can you post your specs?

Peace.

AMD 2100+
Abit Nforce2 NF7-S board
1 Gig Kingston Xpert PC2700 (CAS 2)
9700 Pro

All stock

4200 in high res.

With a Athlon 3200 you should be in the 5000+ range.. that card is holding your system back.