3D Hercules 4500

Q_Ball

Bought the card today, the Kyro II chipset. Loaded the default drivers on the accompanying cd. Ran Mad Onion 3d benchmark 2001 hoping to see a huge improvemnet over my TNT2.

838.

[edit] It's on their (hercules) site. stoopid me [/edit]

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[This message has been edited by Q_Ball (edited 29-07-2001).]

ThrAx

thats to be expected it doesn't mean its a **** card though, only the gf3 can get full potential on 3dmk 2001

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bugler

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[This message has been edited by bugler (edited 30-07-2001).]

Spoonman

yep I got one myself, its not good with 2001 mark but with games like UT, Serious sam and Q3 its performs extremely well.

Just out of intrest what CPU you running it on, while my score is bad also in 2001 its well over double what your getting.
Try it with 3dmark2000 in 32bit colour, it beats most mid range cards then in the same CPU class up to the GF2 GTS.

Volvagia

Tried a 3d prophet 4500 on my machine and it worked lovely and smooth. 90 fps in q3 with all the graphix turned on with plenty of bots. but that was prolly helped by my 1gig athlon.

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How appropriate you fight like a Cow!!

-ADREN-

That 1Ghz with out a shadow of a bout help it..

A Grafics card accelerater.. remeber is a nd accelerater on to uer CPUs proformace.. so if u had even the 1 ghz on a TNT2 card ude be getting good wnough stuff.

Q_Ball

Actually i have a 1gig athlon and had a TNT2 before the new card. 128 PC100 tho but i'm looking to get that upgraded when i can finally afford it.

Havent tried it in 3d mark 2000 but will as soon as i find the pc gamer cd

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Stonemason

Q-Ball you better pick up some pc 133 its recently started to rise in price again i think some places are selling it for arround £28 for a stick of 128 if you cant afford that then its time for a change of job or to hassle ya dad for more pocket money depending on your situation

Stone


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Spoonman

hmm might be the drivers, that score is very low for a 1Ghz athlon, I get way over double that with just a 1Ghz duron.

Funny thing too about 2001... its the same engine as maxpayne and gives such low scores but maxpayne absolutely screams along on my system in 1024x768x32 with everything on medium settings.

Q_Ball

What drivers are you using? I use the 7.111a set that came with the card.

Also, i hadnt customized openGL or D3D. what customizations are you using?

Stoney, wanna put some by for me, i'll pay ya when i have the money

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[This message has been edited by Q_Ball (edited 02-08-2001).]

Spoonman

I'm using 7.114 drivers you should definitely install those and make sure your running dx8.

Download them from the hercules site:

ftp://ftp.hercules.com/video/exe/KYROBASED/3DPK-9X-7114.exe

Should bring you upto speed.

Q_Ball

DL'd the drivers, gonna give it a shot later.

Thanks a lot spoonman

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ThrAx

what r u getting now?

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Q_Ball

Now it wont even run, i get a **** load of CL_FlushEntityPacket errors in HL (not sure if it's a grafix-card prob but it's pnly started since the card has been installed), games seem to stutter now, i cant even play starcraft smoothly anymore

I've installed the latest chipset drivers, set AGP aperture to 64mb, made sure AGP speed was on 2x, tried adapter default and optimal refresh rates but it's still fupped.

I'm well and truly píssed off at this stage. Thinking of reinstalling my old TNT2, at least it ****ing worked properly

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[This message has been edited by Q_Ball (edited 09-08-2001).]

ThrAx

methinks u bought a broken one, i have the latest default kyroII drivers from the power vr site and mine works grand, no errors. I think u should replace it, or at least remove all the old drivers and update the new ones and get the kyro tools prog, it'll let u over clock the card and change any settings you like, u can get this from 3d files.com i think, but im not sure cant remember where i got mine from

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Q_Ball

Methinks i gots a bo*** one too. gonna change it tomorrow.

cheers thrax

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Q_Ball

Ok i have a new board and after tweaking the BIOS i score ~4200 in 3dmark 2000. what is everyone else getting?

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Spoonman

Sounds about right, heres my results:

http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?1949899


[This message has been edited by Spoonman (edited 17-08-2001).]

Q_Ball

cool i finally got it sorted except....

Have you suffered and occasional picture tearing?

and are you using any of the 3d optimisations for the card?

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It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

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