Quake II and G200 OpenGL

[Taylorg]

Hello,

I'm in need of some help to get Quake II to work in OpenGL mode with my G200 and PD 5.13.

When I try and change Quake II to Default Open GL mode it comes back and tells me there is no hardware acceleration and it goes back to the console.

I have an 8MB SGRAM Millenium G200 AGP.
I'm running Win98 at 1280x1024@24Bit Colour Depth.


I've also tried dropping the resolution down to 640x480 and trying it but no luck.

The strange thing is thhat I have had it working before I had to rebuild my system. Is there and order that you have to load the software in?

i.e PD drivers then DX6 and then Quake II?

Please e-mail me with any help as I do not check these forums that often.

Thanks & Regards
Grant

Taylorg@msn.com

[Nuno]

You are running the desktop at 24 bpp and quake 2 uses the desktop color depth. G400 doesn´t do hardware aceleration in 24 bpp. Try 16 bpp or 32 bpp, and quake will work.

[Taylorg]

Thanks, I've set the desktop to 16bit and it works fine now. the frame rate is not great at 16fps in 1024x768 mode on a PIII 450.

I'll have to treat myself to a G400 MAX soon.

[Nuno]

I´m seeing I wrote G400, I mean´t G200... but that 24 bpp issue is the same inboth cards, glad you made it work.

You must realize G200 is almost 1 year and a half old and it has no multitexturing abilities. So you really can´t expect stellar performance in Q2, much less at 1024x768...

Hey, get the G400 and you won´t regret. 60 fps at 1024x768x16 trilinear filtering in my G400 at max speeds with a celeron 450, what do you think?

[Taylorg]

Yep the G400 sounds good :-)

[Bohrn]

I just upgraded to a G400 from a G200 but even with the older card I got better FPS than 16 in Q2. Like 28-32 and I only have a celeronA337. Might be ya wanna check on some other things.

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[Taylorg]

My config is Abit BX6 R2, PIII 450, 128MB PC100 SDRAM, IBM 9.1GB 7200rpm HD, Adaptec 2940au SCSI, DEC RZ28, Quantum Fireball 4.3GB ST, Plextor Ultraplex 32 CD, Matshita CW-7502B CD-R.

I have my games installed on a partition on the DEC drive. Maybe I would get better frame rates by putting the games onto my IBM drive.

[Nuno]

16 fps 1024x768 with the G200 (at default clock speed) is not bad, especially if Q2 is not tweaked for speed.

I got something like 22 fps at 1024x768x16 with G200 oc to 100/133, so...

[rei]

hey!

30fps in 640x480 is perfectly fine for me on my g200/c300a

[Taylorg]

I get 40fps with Quake II in 640x480 mode.
Quake I give me around 52fps at the same resolution.

I'm running with no tweaks in Q2 and no overclocking of my G200 or PIII 450.

[rei]

i don't much care for 800x600, 1600x1200...

[DuRaNgO]

I'm getting 40-42 fps at 800x600 16bit using MGATweak, check it out at:
http://mgatools.matroxusers.com/

jim



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p2-350 (o.c'd to 450) 128mb pc-100, Mill. G200 8mb sgram (o.c'd to 210 with MGATweak) PD5.21, win98se, DX6.1, THREE BIG FANS (and three little ones)