the_Scarlet_one
I know this may sound almost stupid, but are you plugged into your integrated graphics?
NO

If you removed the drivers, I would think you wouldn’t have been able to play the game, as that should remove the open cl, directx, and other driver components that would allow the gpu to work properly with the game. If you are accidentally plugged into the igpu, then the gpu wouldn’t display any change when you remove the nvidia drivers and software.
Playing the game was fine. 


Again, I could be mistaken, so I am just trying to help figure this out.

Also, your claims about 3D mark testing everything extensively, where did they come from?

Markus54
Here is a link that explains benchmarking. It includes 3dmark. You should check it out.
http://www.makeuseof.com/...ee-benchmark-programs/

Markus54

the_Scarlet_one
3D mark doesn’t test your network or many other things you mentioned. You don’t even need a network connection to run it once it is loaded, so I think your understanding may be slightly flawed. It tests the performance of your ram, your cpu, and your video card to give you an idea of how they are performing. You only need network to load your scores once the tests are completed.

The size of the files is because there are multiple benchmarks loaded for one program, like firestrike, timespy, ice storm, and so on are all loaded into 3D mark Some of these are for mobile platforms and some are for pc’s. If you were to remove the ones you don’t need, you would see the size of the file drop exponentially. I think you are assuming because you think you understand. Unfortunately, I believe your thinking is getting in the way here. Your statement that it should be obvious to all proves that you didn’t know that, you just assumed.

We are trying to help. You don’t seem to want the help or want to try the things that are suggested. You have clearly admitted that basic programs will not install, and you tried to justify that by saying it does things that it doesn’t do.

Hopefully your 640 holds you over until your replacement can get in or you can get a refund, which ever you chose in the end.

Also, windows loads a generic driver.. got it.. I just bought a 1060 recently for a spare compare and windows installed the latest update, in which it installed an old driver over the new one. The gpu wouldn’t work, because there was conflicting drivers. Once I removed both drivers and updated to the newest, everything works perfect. This may not be what you experienced, but windows force installs the wrong things sometimes, so we were trying to help.

Have a good day and good luck in the future. When you actually want help, please reach out and others will possibly help.

Then it is crappy bloatware. Games today use the internet to play massively multiplayer setups. A gaming benchmark if it is worth its weight should test the cpu, ram, video card, monitor, hard drive/ssd and maybe even the Blu-ray/dvd player. CPU to interpret software instructions, ram cause that is where the game gets stored during play, hard drive/ssd because there are software swaps, network card because there a lot of games that people play online, monitor to see if it can handle the game resolution, video card for performance. I have had games where I had to leave a dvd in the player so I could start the game. It was a security measure. 
As for windows I think Microsoft has made great strides in getting the drivers right. Are they great? I don't think so, but it is much better than what it used to be. They have been at it for quite a while.

CraptacularOne

berryjohnsonan
Many times your installed graphics hardware does not match required configuration and this situation may cause of various graphic or other problems. So benchmarking is the technology that can solve your many CPU problems. You just take a look  guide.
Which will disclose perticular reason of problem. So you can find their exact solution.

While your desire to help is admirable, I'm not sure replying to a thread from 3 years ago is going to do any good. 

cneuhauser

Markus54
OK, I did an experiment. This morning I played Age of Empires. I have  a patch that allows me to play at 1920 x 1080p. All that does is allow me to play full screen on my 27" monitor. It also allows me to have more villagers and warriors. I can now go up to 1000 in this game, right now I have it set for 375. Not a big load on the graphics card. I ran task manager. The cpu utilization never went over 30%. 
Now, this afternoon, I played Elite Dangerous. With task manager running I hit 51% utilization and a cpu clock rate of 3.87 GHz. It is not my cpu or ram, which only went to 5.6GB. 
So those of you looking to blame my system, you're barking up the wrong tree. 

1) Not all GHZ are the same, as many of the posters in here have asked, what CPU/MOBO/RAM do you have and how much ram in total
2) Why are you benchmarking in Age of Empires when Elite Dangerous is the game of choice; each game utilizes system resources differently, so you're comparing apples to oranges
3) There are shadows and other specific eye candy that will drag even an RTX 2080 to its knees
4) I seriously doubt you were running Elite Dangerous on Ultra with your 640...that GPU is 8yrs old which is ancient history in GPU terms
5) When was the last time you backed up all of your data, and performed a clean install of your OS and Drivers? (I do this once a year, if not twice a year) The reason for doing this is that if you're constantly installing and uninstalling games, a lot of times games make registry edits to your system, and they don't correct for them upon uninstall... so your registry is probably all sorts of screwed up