Somthing doesn't seem right (evga 6800GT)

[Santos L. Halper]

Just got my evga 6800GT and did a fresh install of Windows.

Installed the 61.77 drivers.

Ran a few benchmarks at 400/1100.

3DMARK 2001SE - 16450

3DMARK03 - 9168

I thought these scores seemed a little low but I didn't really care. I figured I'd wait to see how Doom 3 ran before I got worried.

I set Doom 3 at 1280x1024 at high details. Seems to be running fine until a zombie or something comes on the screen and then the framerate dops to about 20.

Any suggestions? Or is everything running fine and I'm just crazy?

My specs are in my sig.

 

[heyheyhey]

Something is amiss, make sure your AGP aperature size is set to the highest setting (usually 256MB) in your BIOS.

 

[Santos L. Halper]

Already did that. Set it at 256 in the begining, but now I'm in the process of trying 128.

 

[Santos L. Halper]

Dropping the AGP apeture size down to 128 did not help.

I decided to run another 3dMark03 and got 9586.

This still seems kind of low to me.

 

[BakedGoods]

Yeah I've heard of people getting 12K with the 6800nu, that is weird.

 

[Big Lar]

I'd check the board drivers first, then make sure you don't have vsync on.

 

[Santos L. Halper]

I'm an idiot.

When I did my fresh install of Windows I forgot to do the first main thing.

INSTALL THE CHIPSET DRIVERS!!!

3dMark03 = 11986

Big props to Mase for makin' me look stupid.