Bubblegum Bandit August 7, 2003 Share Bubblegum Bandit Member August 7, 2003 (edited) When ever I try to run this benchmark utility, it ends up just kicking me to my desktop.....I believe the farthest I have made it is through the third test and then all of the sudden the prog stops and I'm staring at my desktop. Any ideas why this is happening? My PC Athalon XP 1600 512 MB RAM GF2 GTS XP Pro Let me know what other specs you might need to solve. I just bought a new vid card and would like to compare before and after I put the new card in....thanks Edited August 7, 2003 by Bubblegum Bandit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Inferno August 7, 2003 Share Guest Inferno Guests August 7, 2003 up until that test, what is ur avg. FPS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubblegum Bandit August 7, 2003 Author Share Bubblegum Bandit Member August 7, 2003 (edited) 60s or so Edited August 7, 2003 by Bubblegum Bandit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Inferno August 7, 2003 Share Guest Inferno Guests August 7, 2003 hmmm.......i think the card cant handle that test then.....and crashes. I would A. Try the new card to see if it crashes. B. Open a window, pick up ur PC, and throw it out the window. or C. Tinker around with it a bit more and see what u can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubblegum Bandit August 7, 2003 Author Share Bubblegum Bandit Member August 7, 2003 does the same thing with the new card.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Inferno August 7, 2003 Share Guest Inferno Guests August 7, 2003 K bubble, tell me what kinda mobo u got..... 8X slot on it too?.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL August 7, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member August 7, 2003 Where did you get your copy of 3DMark2001? Did "a friend" give it to you or did you download it from the site? Even if your card couldn't handle the test (which I highly doubt), it would have just ran at like 1 fps or so not kick you to desktop. It sounds to me like something is wrong with your copy of 3DMark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage August 7, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 7, 2003 If your card is OC too high or your RAM is timed too agressively it can do that. Happened to me, i just had to tweak those back to more reasonable settings. Make sure you are not Overclocking too hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubblegum Bandit August 7, 2003 Author Share Bubblegum Bandit Member August 7, 2003 Um....no overclocking going on right now....everything is running stock. I DLed it from a mirror offered by futuremark's website. I think it was Major Geeks is where it came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage August 8, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 8, 2003 make sure all of your drivers are up to date, including dx9b and video drivers and chipset drivers. That is the majority of people's problems. Also make sure you have Anti-aliasing and AF turned off before running the benchmark. These MAY also cause problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubblegum Bandit August 8, 2003 Author Share Bubblegum Bandit Member August 8, 2003 AA and AF are off and when I did finally go ahead and put the new card in, assuming the old card just wouldn't run the prog....I dled dx9(not sure if you mean beta by b or if there is a b issure of the driver) striaght from the website and also dled the newest chipset drivers....still, to no avail, drops me to the desktop. I did however make it to the third game that it tests... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asphyxiator August 12, 2003 Share Asphyxiator Member August 12, 2003 What version of Directx do you have. 3dmark2001se requires directx 8, but wont run on 9... at least not on mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Inferno August 12, 2003 Share Guest Inferno Guests August 12, 2003 DirectX wont matter, because i have tried it with both, and when i have 9.0 on, it wont load 3dmark at all. It gives me an error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage August 12, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 12, 2003 Make sure your video drivers are the latest because they will support dx9. The "b" is the latest revision. Meaning not beta but newest. Did you just swap out video cards? Did you reinstall windows? This type of information is important because 3dmark could be trying to access a command ment for another card because the junk is still on your system causing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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