Help with New Graphics Card (FX5950 Ultra)

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Hi all,

can anyone tell me anything about any tweaks or whatnot to get the best out of this new card?

Here's what I've done so far:

Changed Graphics Aperture Size in BIOS to 256MB
Edited XF86Config to reflect the new video RAM setting
Re-emerged the nvidia-kernel

Im getting about 2400 FPS on glxgears, does that sound right?

Many thanks...

Nick

grepcomputers · Guru Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 375

Well, I'm getting roughyl 3200FPS in glxgears, and I only have a FX5900 (128MB VRAM).

If you go to /etc/modules.d/ and edit "nvidia" you can turn on Side Band Addressing and AGP Fast Writes. I have these turned on. However, I also have 2x Quincunx Multisampling enabled...

Changin SBA, FW and FSAA are the only things I can think of off the top of my head...

cheers...

Angrybob · Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 575

why do people keep using glxgears as some kind of benchmark? use a real game like ut2004 or quake.

the only useful thing you can tell from glxgears is the following:

if glxgears_score > ~1000 then graphics card is working else you are using software mode

andrewy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 602

I get about 1400FPS with a GeForce 4 440 MX 64mb, so you should probably get a better FPS rate than you're getting.
But, as Angrybob said, glxgears isn't that great for a benchmark. Try ET or the u2004 demo.

DarrenM · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject:

Aperture Size doesn't effect performance and doesn't need to be set like that. It's the amount of system ram that can be used if the video card runs out of memory.

http://www.ocfaq.com/article.php/overclocking/vidcard/43

You will need to post specs for the rest of your system before we can judge if that is a good score. Also, search around the forums. Especially the games forum as there have been a few threads on glxgears and other benchmark performance.

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Thanks guys,

Turns out I dont have a big enuf PSU, new one arrives tomorrow ;-)

Cheers

Nick