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I don't have any background programs running.  Also, changing
resolution settings hardly makes any difference either.  The thing is
that once I decided to push the speed to near 1660MHz by putting the
FSB to 144, I started getting much better results, around 50 to 60
fps.

I got 10576 in my 3D Mark benchmark, which showed that my Graphics
card is performing as expected compared to other 1800+ CPUs and isn't
being slowed down by some background app.  All this indicates to me
that even my Athlon 1800+ is a bottleneck for a game like UT2003
because whatever graphics details is thrown at the 9700 can be handled
well, but it's the physics of the bots running around the map which
saturates the CPU so much.  I checked benchmarks with that of
Anandtech.com, and the numbers seem to check out where even the 2.8GHz
P4 is only achieving around 66 at 1024x768.

So my bottom line, UT2003 players should have at least an Athlon XP
2100+ to get something playable.

"Jules Augley" <aug...@HOMEbtinternet.com> wrote in message news:<b0lohc$fkt$1...@knossos.btinternet.com>...
> "Johnny5" <know...@knowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:LyqX9.31408$vd6.6193979@news3.news.adelphia.net...
> > I would check and make sure you don't have some cheesy program running at
> > startup sucking up all your cpu cycles. I have seen some programs put the
> > cpu in 100% utilization......Not good. Also disable any antivirus program
> > you have when you play games.
> > "LL Deja" <lld...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:c4d04f8b.0301212001.303ccd2b@posting.google.com...
> > > I just got my Radeon 9700 (non-pro) and expected to be able to fly in
> > > Unreal Tournament 2003, but in DM-Antalus with 8 bots and the
> > > following settings (1024x768 32bit and most of the bells and whistles
> > > turned on to High), I am getting an average of 39 FPS.  Is this
> > > normal?  I am using all the default settings that came with the driver
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > I have the driver date 12/18/2002 (not sure what driver version) from
> > > the ATI website.
> > >
> > > I have Athlon 1800+, 512MB, and Epox 8KHA+.  My CPU might not be top
> > > of the line, but 39 FPS just plain sucks.  Any help would be
> > > appreciated.  I have also found my Unreal Tournament (non-2003)
> > > framerate to have not improved much either at 1024x768.
> >
> >
> If you are running the benchmarks in the UT2003/Benchmark folder then that
> is about right. I have 9700 pro on XP2400+ and I get just over 41fps at the
> same settings. If it is not the benchmark exe then I know nothing.
> 
> Jules