Lads......i just reformatted my pc, spec is:

Athlon XP2000 (1.66ghz?)
256mb DDR PC2700
60gb HDD
Radeon 7000 Graphics Card (64mb ram)

Anyway, it aint that old, and shouldent be that bad to be honest,m i nkow its nothing by todays stanbdards....

But...Its soooooo slow, I have just reformatted, theres nothing on it, the graphics card drivers are the latest from ATIs site.....

But, when I try to load something, it aint even a game i get the error "OpenGL benchmark = 30, a pentium 300 with accelerated graphics should score 300"

Something is majorly wrong and I dont know what, its doing ym head in, soooo slow

PS. No replies saying "dont be tight, buy a new pc, or new gfx card", the one i got should be working a lot better than this I dont ask a lot!

 

ps...edit to say i ran 3dMark20001 and the benchmark score was 1188

Its definatly underperforming by a mile

 

I don't know mate


I know I just had to reformat and reinstall, and I lost all my audio and graffix drivers too (but I'm on win98SE and have onboard graffix and sound as my PC is oooooooooold )

I eventually with some help from peeps on here found and installed new VGA drivers and chipset audio drivers so all sorted now (except my USB plug in card reader/writer won't show up even theo I installe dthe software for it )

So just keep bumping till someone who knows what the problem is reads it pal

 

Have u got the latest drivers for the graphics card?

 

Yes Paul

Cheers Thrush!

 

...and your latest chipset drivers....shouldnt make all that much difference but you never know!!

 

got to search and type in "dxdiag" then when it opens go to display. Make sure that all the acceleration's are enabled. If there is anything wrong then u will see in the notes at bottom

 

Just done that paul, all seems fine.....

Its wank

 

do a search for "omega drivers" and use those

 

Big up Jim for fixing it for me.,......top man

 

Ditch the omega drivers and get the dna drivers http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=24

 

where did this come from?

have i not been reading properly (not unusual !! ) or do you have specific hardware knowledge re this PC Jim?

 

mark, omega is just a hacked version of the standard stuff, i thought it migt help. turns out it was just the mobo stuff (VIA4in1) not being installed and the AGP port being knocked back to legacy.

installed via drivers n speeds QuADRUOPLED then installed omega drivers and speeds increased about 10% ontop

 

jim,i know the omegas are a modified version of the standard drivers....ive used them but then found dna which are also a modified standard driver but seem to be better,try them