Video Card and framerates.

[ValiantKnight]

Well it's an older game,

Everquest, not everquest II

I configure all particles(sparklies) to off, turn all advanced models(how nice the players look) off, and have tried to play at 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024, but it didn't seem to help or I may have been testing it wrong I guess.
Basically no amount of lowering the settings on the card seems to help. I'll try lowering the resolution again.


*edit*
10fps at 1280x1024
/switch video mode to 640x480
10fps at 640x480

Hmm, does that prove that it's not the video card?

Video card scores in line with others of its class on this system type on 3dmark 2005, 2200 if i remember in a range of 1300-4000. 4000 was a core 2 duo I believe with 2gb ddr2 and a PCIe 6600 or 6600GT.

Performance tests as far as I can tell are fine, on disk, memory, and processor.
It has me baffled. Every time I do some kind of diagnostic on it... "working as intended" or the performance is high, or good. Yet in game.. well 10frames per second isn't very good.