Benchmark oddity....very wierd

[gamerman4]

I have been d/ling graphic card benchmarks for a while to test them out on my hardware. I need something confirmed for me. Can some download this http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/files/ParticleFury145.zip (200KB very small)
It is a particle benchmark that pretty muich creates a whole lot of particles.
I need someone to set it to 32000 particles and tell me what FPS they got (it says on the lower lefthand corner).
I think I got a screwy driver because the particles from the center look like squares until they get closer to the screen.

 

[gamerman4]

Are ATi card so bad at OpenGL that they can't even render particles correctly? Here is a picture of what I was talking about with the blocky particles.

If you look at the center, the particles are squares. On my brothers PC with a Geforce FX5200, all of them are very smoothly blended.

 

[Hairy_Lee]

i get about 73 fps tops. you might want to check your driver settings and move the quality higher if you can

 

[gamerman4]

AAHAAA! It turns out the my mipmap detail was set on very low quality. After turning it up, everything was great!! thanks for the info!! I thought I had a screwy gfx driver...