Xtreme Grand Prix racetrack 6 discussion

[saaya]

its the last week, and the last track of the grand prix...
for most of you this should also be a completely new racetrack you havent raced before, so i hope you enjoy tweaking your machines for this latest racetrack wich has been opened just a few weeks ago.

[saaya]

unfortunately you need wmp10 and wmencoder9... here are the download links

windows media player 10
windows media encoder 9

they can both be uninstalled, right?
or is it like with wmp9 that wouldnt let you uninstall it?

[Thickbrit]

Oh dear,i have no idea how to tweak for this bench,i've never run a pc-mark.What sort of things does it test ? Do i need internet ? I doubt my "stripped to the bone" n-lite install will have enough left in it to run this.I think i'd better get started early on this one.

[Jamo]

oooooooo yeah -strokes raid array-

[boshuter]

Oh dear,i have no idea how to tweak for this bench,i've never run a pc-mark.What sort of things does it test ? Do i need internet ? I doubt my "stripped to the bone" n-lite install will have enough left in it to run this.I think i'd better get started early on this one.

I've never run '05, but from my experience with PCmark04 I can tell you it aint easy.. Just one tip that may or may not apply to you, on every system I've ran PCmark on ( all Intel w/ATI video) I get higher scores with the video card at default clocks, oc'ing the card only lowers my score.... please don't ask me why I've also had lots of problems getting the orb to accept any scores with my cpu running at 4.3ghz or above, which sucks when you can run 4.6 easily

[Jamo]

I get higher scores with the video card at default clocks, oc'ing the card only lowers my score.... please don't ask me why

erm, something wrong there mate, anyway i've got a few scores but i cant submit them, when i open pcmark05 to submit saved result it just hangs and does nothing for ages.......

[I_G]

I guess I'm out of this one....

I've been trying to get 05 to run on my system since it came out.

It just hangs at the virus checking until the CPU heats up enough to trigger thermal protection, and then it just shuts down.

I've tried uninstall/reinstall, different d/l sources, different OS installs....

If you guys have any suggestions, please share.

Thanks.

IG


saaya, Thanks for the competition! I had a lot of fun and enjoyed competing with some new faces. You guys are great! Maybe I can join you in the next contest (if I ever get 05 figured out!! )

C-Ya!!

edit: OK I got it figured out. Needed a newer Intel Matrix RAID driver.

[-Acid-]

well i cannot get a pc mark score at all
i do all the tests i think any ideas
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm05=71851

Jamo its Raid vrs SCSI lol

got post and i dont think the gf4mx 440se can do that test argh were is the gf3ti200 Attacks brothers p.c

[InSanCen]

I'm a bit iffy about installing WMP 10... the EULA is Draconian...

But that means I'd have to pull out...

Decisions, Decisions...

If I post a score, I gave in to temptation...

[D4nnyOcean]

I had the opposite happen with video card clocks. My score went up almost 200 points when I was running it on my work system. Got a Leadtek 6200 unlocked and overclocked. The overclock was the only difference between my runs.

3138

Funny, its the 3rd highest on the ORB for a 6200 and the highest with a single core.

Anyone know what advantage a RAID 0 will have on scoring? Just wondering if I wanna take the time to set a RAID 0 up.

[Jamo]

well i cannot get a pc mark score at all
i do all the tests i think any ideas
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm05=71851

Jamo its Raid vrs SCSI lol

got post and i dont think the gf4mx 440se can do that test argh were is the gf3ti200 Attacks brothers p.c

shamone! altho you dont get as much as i was expecting on the hdd scores and i dont even have raptors

dannyocean - i have raid 0 on 2 x 160gb western digi 8mb SATA drives, so compare my scores to yours

[Vapor]

I wonder what an iRam RAID0 config would do to the score...

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

how do i know which drive its running the HDD tests on?
My windows bootdrive is a POS 40 gb that averages around 15 MB/s sequential read....
but my other drive is a 320 gig raid array that averages 150+ MB/s sequential.
I just don't want my score getting raped by a dinosaur bootdrive.
I'd have winXP installed on the RAID array if my damn NVRAID floppy drivers would work. (they don't; and the stuff for making a new one on my drivers CD is 1.45 mb; a bit to big for a floppy, eh MSI?)

[Vapor]

I'm pretty sure it'll run on the boot drive...unless you have Pro, in which case it'll run on whatever you ask it to run on (I think).

[D4nnyOcean]

I noticed a score difference for me of about 450pts with hyperthreading enabled vs disabled. Enabled was of course better.

[-Acid-]

i changed gpu from mx440se to gf3ti200 and i still dont get a score argh
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm05=72237
is latest test score anyone care to guess my points

[Vapor]

A small tip to people....don't unplug your monitor, it Fs up the 3D tests.

[Der_KHAN]

when is week 6 gonna end?
i dunno if ill be done next monday.

[I_G]

OK I got it figured out. Needed to update the Intel Matrix RAID driver.

[Poki]

Is using a ramdisk OK? I know it'll piss off alotta people if we do but it is allowed in this competition?

[Vapor]

I did...everyone can use it, so why not?

It adds another form of tweaking too.

[saaya]

fm approved drivers only please, if anybody still needs help let me know, im in contact with somebody from fm who can hopefully help you with the problems

you need a directx9 card to get a score, is it ok with you guys if somebody who benched in the rest of the compo with a lower card goes for a dx9 card for this bench?

dont worry, the competition wont close on monday, pcmark2005 is new to all of us so im closing this on wednesday or thursday next week

about a ramdrive... well anybody can use a ramdrive, no?
it just makes benching more complicated and time consuming if everybody installs a ramdrive... i really dont know what you guys think about this, but id rather say no to ramdrives...

for anybody whos worried about wmp10, i really dont like it either, but you can uninstall it completely from what i can see, at least it seems to have worked on my system.

PS, i fixed the download link of wmp10 (it might be the download of the german wmp10, but at least this link works while the original one didnt... at least for me)

[Poki]

I made the assumption ramdrives weren't kosher in FM's eyes as they have been pulling results with them from the ORB. So is that a resounding NO to ramdrives or just frowning on someone using them?

[Ugly n Grey]

Ramdrives aren't cool at all, they are pulling published ramdrive scores from what I can see...

Edit: But if RAMDRIVE driven scores are going to stand for the duration, we pretty much all have to use one I suppose just to be competitive....

[Vapor]

Ramdrives aren't cool at all, they are pulling published ramdrive scores from what I can see...

Edit: But if RAMDRIVE driven scores are going to stand for the duration, we pretty much all have to use one I suppose just to be competitive....

I'm not in the contest any longer....no need to compete with me.

The gains from RAMDrives are WAAAAY to big to be realistic of overall system performance....though there are gains to be had in real life (like ensuring certain files get cached in RAM).

I'm keeping mine up until they take it down...I want it up and don't really have anything to lose by getting banned.

BTW, 'it' happens to be at 10955 now.

Oh, another thing I noticed with the AR Soft RAMDisk (the one I posted in my other thread) is that I can't use over 11% of my RAM for it, and it only becomes useful once over 241MBs, necessitating 2.5+GB of RAM.....so not everyone can use it (for all I know, I'm probably only 1 of 5-6 people on this forum that have 3+GB of decent RAM to put in their system....which would change their system config, invalidating their results for this contest [like I did]).