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    How's your Graphics Card - check it!!!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mattireland, May 28, 2007.

  1. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Follow this link, install the simple application which I made and reply with your graphics card and how many frames are displayed each second. This should be interesting! :)

    I'll start it off - NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX - 868.30fps

    The program can be found at:- http://www.mattireland.org/template 240307/downloads/GCardTest/GCardTest.zip

    The program is also attached to this post.

    P.S. Please do not have any other applications running at the same time. Thanks! We'll see how this goes! (The application does take a bit of time to load - don't worry).
     
    mattireland, May 28, 2007
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  2. Sponsi

    Sponsi Badibade

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    Tells me something about having to install Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D?
     
    Sponsi, May 28, 2007
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  3. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Cool. Sadly, it doesn't work with vista
     
    fabarati, May 28, 2007
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  4. stgben

    stgben Notebook Geek

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    Would you mind posting the source for this. I'd rather not run the program until I know whats going on under the hood.
     
    stgben, May 28, 2007
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  5. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Gave me a direct3d error too.
     
    wave, May 28, 2007
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  6. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    What does that mean to have FPS (frames per second) without any load? There isn't a point to getting a FPS value if the GPU is not under any load...that's the whole idea of game benchmarking - to test out various, usually graphically intensive games, and get back a FPS rating.

    You're probably better off working with FRAPS on DOOM3 or Oblivion or whatever other game you want.
     
    Gautam, May 28, 2007
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  7. touradg

    touradg Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi
    It gives me this:

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    I doubt if i can download DX9 SDk for about 500 MB! :(
     
    touradg, May 28, 2007
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  8. jessi3k3

    jessi3k3 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yep, it wants you guys to have the DX9 SDK in order to run this. Just forget it guys.
     
    jessi3k3, May 28, 2007
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  9. Charr

    Charr Notebook Deity

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    Won't even run for me, attempts to download the program and fails.
     
    Charr, May 28, 2007
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  10. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Yeh , clear your browser cache and it should download OK.
     
    mattireland, May 29, 2007
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