Reply 140 of 218, by SPBHM
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wrote:Mine is a Pericom chip. Assuming that the default win7 driver(pci.sys) is sufficient for your PLX chip(couldn't find much in their website, atleast the pericom website had FAQ section), then only the bridge vendor can do something about the code 10 error. Chances are however remote to get any meaningful support from them. But I'm sure that if that is resolved, your graphics card will get detected and drivers will get installed.
the driver should support, but unfortunately it always gives me error 10, and from what I was able to find via google it's a common problem with these 8400GS's and there is no known solution and people just give up.
wrote:I didn't test with 3dMark05 but with 3dMark06 and yeah the CPU tests were terrible compared to a slide show even, something around 0.09 FPS. Even a Core2Duo E7500 scored only 0.83
For some reason, the cuda tool didn't run on my system. I found similar tools and their results on my system are in the previous pages of this thread. I guess we shouldn't read much into these synthetic benchmarks.
If I remember correctly the 3dm06 CPU test is compeltely different, while the 03 and 05 is similar, but as I said, with a PCIE8400GS and the same CPU it should be getting 10x higher score on 3dm03 CPU test, while the GPU part of it seems acceptable, so there is something going on
I installed HalfLife1 and the lowest i got was 21 FPS standing still(snapshot attached) inside the office complex till now. The lowest i got in the intro was 32 FPS. If your Sempron 1.8GHz platform gets 48 FPS, then it seems that my P3 850MHz platform getting 32 is normal. It's only that the overall gameplay is somewhat jerky though it doesn't look like stuttering. If only someone can confirm that a P3 850 MHz coppermine @100 FSB with PC133 3-3-3-6 timings will not go below 30 FPS at any point in HalfLife1(other than during loading, obviously) with a decent native PCI/AGP graphics card (Voodoo or Geforce FX5500/6200) on a VIA Chipset motherboard!!!
well, the only other slower PC I have at the moment running this game is my Pentium II 400 with the voodoo 4, at the same place the 8400GS + sempron was getting the 48 the PII was at 34 with 3dfx mini gl driver and around 24 with the default OpenGL... but it's also the CD version, win9x... not really comparable I guess,