Very low simple and medium graphics score

[MikieJ]

Hey everyone, I ran all the tests and got a 299.8. My scores for simple and medium 3d graphics were quite abysmal - 4.5 fps on the simple, and 3.0 fps on the medium. On the complex, I had around 30 fps.

Also, I had no other processes running except objectdock, but strangely enough it says i only had 1127.8 available ram out of 1.5 gigs...Ive checked for spyware/virsues/adware/malware many times and have always cleaned whatever I had.

Games run ok, in particular World of Warcraft runs consitently above 40 FPS with most of the high options on which is good, but i just find it strange that I have such low scores on these tests. I have the latest version of Direct X, however I'm not too sure about my Video card drivers because Gateway has their own drivers for their laptops with the Radeon X600 in it. For all I know, I could be using the wrong drivers, I am using the ones that I downloaded off of the Gateway website and it says its the most recent update.



PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 6.1 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Wednesday, March 28, 2007


Benchmark Results

Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 69.4
CPU - Floating Point Math: 403.8
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 172.0
CPU - SSE/3DNow!: 1546.4
CPU - Compression: 2008.3
CPU - Encryption: 15.5
CPU - Image Rotation: 338.8
CPU - String Sorting: 1348.6
Graphics 2D - Lines: 40.4
Graphics 2D - Rectangles: 148.2
Graphics 2D - Shapes: 15.2
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 107.1
Graphics 2D - GUI: 170.2
Graphics 3D - Simple: 4.3
Graphics 3D - Medium: 2.8
Graphics 3D - Complex: 22.5
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 2014.7
Memory - Read Cached: 1145.3
Memory - Read Uncached: 1034.3
Memory - Write: 801.2
Memory - Large RAM: 318.1
Disk - Sequential Read: 19.8
Disk - Sequential Write: 21.3
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 1.7
CD - Read: 1.6
CPU Mark: 485.7
2D Graphics Mark: 340.8
Memory Mark: 392.8
Disk Mark: 154.9
CD Mark: 201.1
3D Graphics Mark: 9.5
PassMark Rating: 299.8

System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
Number of CPU: 1
CPU Type: Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
CPU Speed: 2387.6 MHz
Cache size: 1024KB
O/S: Windows XP (WIN32)
Total RAM: 1534.1 MB.
Available RAM: 1127.6 MB.
Video settings: 1280x800x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
MANUFACTURER: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
BIOS: BK-ATI VER008.029M.004.000
DATE: 05/05/13
Drive Letter: C
Total Disk Space: 89.5 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS

[passmark]

The available RAM number looks about right. Windows and the disk cache can use up 100MB's of RAM.

The 3D result is low. But the complex (full screen 3D) test is OK. Normally the simple test gets higher frame rates than the complex test. But your machine is the reverse.

It is only the '3D in a window' tests that are bad. I am guessing that if you ran WoW in a window (and not full screen) the performance of WoW would also be abysmal.

I do think it is most likely a driver issue.