quick graphics card question Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss quick graphics card question in the Windows Vista forums; Originally Posted by arcadian110 just wondering if anyone can tell me why my new radion x1300 512 meg graphics card is rated at 3.8 in windows experiance index while ...

[felix8406]

Originally Posted by arcadian110

just wondering if anyone can tell me why my new radion x1300 512 meg graphics card is rated at 3.8 in windows experiance index while my old nvidia 6600 256 meg was rated at 4.1? seems strange since the nvidia only has 64meg onboard and shares the rest with system memory.

Will be hard to say. It could be do to quality, bad ram, or some other type of defect on the board itself. Could be a driver issue as well. I think you should pay a visit to the customer service website and ask them.

[Snuffy]

C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT

You should find 2 videos there.
1. winsatencode.wmv
2. winsat.wmv
along with winsat.txt and winsat.prx files...

added by edit: found that this BUG (Re: Windows Experience Index refresh has an error

Thread Starter: Stephen!! Started: 03 Dec 2006 3:37 AM UTC ) has been reported in TechNet and was also bugged, never fixed ...

[Snuffy]

C:\Windows\system32>winsat formal -v
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Command Line 'winsat formal -v'
> Running the Formal Assessment
> DWM running... turnning DWM off
> System processor power policy saved and set to 'max performance'
> Running: Feature Enumeration v1.0.0.0 ''
> Gathering System Information
> Run Time 00:00:01.76
> Operating System : 6.0 Build-6000
> Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Proce
ssor 4600+
> TSC Frequency : 2433500000
> Number of Processors : 0
> Number of Cores : 2
> Number of CPUs : 2
> Number of Cores per Processor : 30
> Number of CPUs Per Core : 1
> Cores have logical CPUs : NO
> L1 Cache and line Size : 65536 64
> L2 Cache and line Size : 524288 64
> Total physical mem available to the OS : 1.99 GB (2,146,107,392 bytes)
> Adapter Description : NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS (Microsoft Co
rporation - WDDM)
> Adapter Manufacturer : NVIDIA
> Adapter Driver Version : 7.15.10.9746
> Adapter Driver Date (yy/mm/dd) : 2006\8\22
> Has DX9 or better : Yes
> Has Pixel shader 2.0 or better : Yes
> Has LDDM Driver : Yes
> Dedicated (local) video memory : 250.49MB
> System memory dedicated as video memory : 0.00MB
> System memory shared as video memory : 271.75MB
> Primary Monitor Size : 1280 X 1024 (1310720 total pixels)
> WinSAT is Official : Yes
> Running: WinSAT Direct3D Assessment v1.0.0.0 '-wddm -v'
> Assessing desktop graphics performance
> Run Time 00:00:10.72
> Assessing Direct3D9 alpha blend performance

If this will help the really techy ppl...why the error:

11020171 (2844) - winsat\main.cpp:1161: > Running Assessment: media '-input {winsatencode.wmv} -encode {winsat.prx} -v'
11020671 (2844) - winsat\main.cpp:1430: > Assessment FAILED due to an error

I can find nothing that tells to verify or anything about winsatencode.wmv

[Znod]

I am searching "everywhere" and do not find them. How about giving me a path to them?

Did you see my post where my overall experience index dropped from 4.6 to 4.4 given the addition of what should be a vastly superior card? At this point, I have lost confidence in the experience index. PassMark tells me that the new card is the superior performer--although not by a huge margin. In my case it is a Radeon X1650 PRO 512MB versus an NVIDIA 7600 GS 256MB. My gaming graphics increased form 4.7 to 4.9, while my "Aero" index decreased from 4.6 to 4.4--which accounts for the decrease in my overall index. Who cares if the Aero index is only 4.4? What happened to your graphics index given use of your new card versus your old one.?

[Snuffy]

Seems the path is hidden, so you have to change to show hidden. but the path stated is 100%.
Path = C:\windows\performance\winsat\

PS: This morning Vista sent a Upgraded Driver fo 7300GS...
install went OK, several screen flashes.... then BSOD...
Yes, my very first BSOD with Vista...(I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYBODY UPGRADE THIS )

[Snuffy]

After many complaints, at least 1 set of Drivers for GeForce 7000 Series Video cards via Windows AU.. are fixed... after testing 3 times, the 7000 Series (s/a NVidia Drivers v.9746) will auto install and work correctly....