Vision Tek 4850 review

[jimmyz]

Finally some XP testing. I use service pack 3 on XP media center 2005, Basically XP Pro.

I had immense problems with crysis benchmark utilities on 64 bit ultimate. the bench app would start the game at the july 7 screen and proceed to be the game not the beach flyover that it should be. I re-installed twice, both the game and applications as well as the patch. also tried without the patch. any advice is welcome. On XP it runs fine though so lets see how it fares.


1680 x 1050 no aa high settings card stock

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1680 x 1050 4x aa high settings card stock

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1900 x 1200 no aa high settings card stock

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1900 x 1200 4 x aa high settings card stock

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On to the synthetic tests.

3DMark 06 stock gpu.
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3DMark 05 stock gpu.

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3DMark 03 stock gpu.

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Lightsmark 2007 for this I used the stock setting when bench is opened. as I have with my other cards. big improvements in this bench.

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These runs at 3240 Mhz on the cpu. including custom config runs.

A member ask me to post a comparison with his rig. so this is for Kai. But I figured the rest of you might like a lower cpu run or two. these also are at 1400 x 960 so that might be of use to some also. this represents a midrange rig a little better.

3240 360 x 9 baseline no aa

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same but with 4 x aa

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custom config no aa

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custom 4 x aa

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same but with a decent oc, still under CCC control unfortunately
It ran through 2 1/2 loops at 700/1138 but would lock. (vpu recover FTW). and i dropped it to 685/1100 and all was good again. I figured this would be a good place to start my overclocking area as well.

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[msgclb]

Finally some XP testing. I use service pack 3 on XP media center 2005, Basically XP Pro.

I had immense problems with crysis benchmark utilities on 64 bit ultimate. the bench app would start the game at the july 7 screen and proceed to be the game not the beach flyover that it should be. I re-installed twice, both the game and applications as well as the patch. also tried without the patch. any advice is welcome. On XP it runs fine though so lets see how it fares.


1680 x 1050 4x aa high settings card stock
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On to the synthetic tests.

3DMark 06 stock gpu.

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1280x1024 default: 3DMark06: 14408 3DMarks

The only purpose of my posting this is show that Vista 64-bit Crysis does work!

Using XP, jimmyz got the following Crysis score:

DX9 1680x1050 AA=4x, 32 bit test, Quality: High ~ Overall Average FPS: 20.045

When you look at this first image try not to laugh! This is an example of what I get testing Crysis on Vista 64-bit using DX10.

1680 x 1050 4x aa high settings EVGA 8800GT SC 512MB in SLI cards stock



DX10 1680x1050 AA=4x, 64 bit test, Quality: High ~ Overall Average FPS: 7.375

It wasn't until recently that I found a work around to my problem. In this second image I'm using DX9. What an improvement that makes.

1680 x 1050 4x aa high settings EVGA 8800GT SC 512MB in SLI cards stock



DX9 1680x1050 AA=4x, 64 bit test, Quality: High ~ Overall Average FPS: 31.73

1280x1024 default: 3DMark06: 15911 3DMarks

You can imagine that I was really disappointed with my SLI setup until I used DX9. I don't know if this is a driver problem or maybe DX10.

*jimmyz* Have you tried the work around that I described over at TCP? Also, what monitor do you use?

It took me a long time to get Crysis to work with my Vista 64. I found that solution that I described doing a Google search.

PM me if you want to compare how our Vista 64 systems are configured.