What's going on - Quake3 low fps

[tish beta2]

Damn! everytime you guys start with quake3 and fps, I have to reboot into win98 ¦ )

If only that turboGL thing would work in win2k... Hey! I could try that right here right now! double-clicking the quake3.exe file.... screen goes dark and clicks twice... wow something actually happens... I see the grey background, and a nice shaded microsoft mouse-pointer... ooohhh lotsa HD work. poff. a message box,

quake3.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.

And error log is being created.

Button: Cancel

Damn!

Oh whell. hmmm rollcage 2 demo not yet finished download. What more can I tell about...?

Ah got it! last night, I did a completely uninstall (following matrox' prosedure), and fired up quake3. Now I didn't get much (maybe nothing?!) performance increase at 10x7, but I noticed a lot difference at 8x6. So I went online at that resolution. Wow now everything looked alittle like slow-motion!

Hmm... 80% done... ok a little more.

hey, check this out: http://guru3d.com/news.shtml#768

Not far now...

¦ )

Damn, just 85%? what do I got here, a modem or something?! oh...

Now now, this reminds me of the 5.21 driver flopp. Hey folks, with the new ICD in this driverrelease, you'll get a whopping 30% performance increase! ops, I take that back, that was some beta drivers and not the released one Is this TGL more riff-raff? or just some ant-rant?

shit I better stop...

[tish beta2]

Ok now I'm in win98 end tried q3 alittle;

25.1 fps: everything max (including flares)
34.2 fps: bliniear
34.3 fps: textquality one notch down+blilinear
41.0 fps: normal @ 1024x768
60.5 fps: normal @ 800x600

And some with Ant's settings (exactly. Ants first, then mine):

66.0 ¦ 38.4 fps: 800x600
42.4 ¦ 25.3 fps: 1024x768

sys spec:

G400 Max (standard clock)
P3 450@504
ASUS P2B-DS 1011
192MB PC100

Yap, thorough uninstall with matrox' uninstallation prosedure. Q3 reports TurboGL.

I currently play with normal settings @ 800 cus then I get the magical 60 fps! Heh it looks kinda slow-motion compared to 40 fps... wierd

PS. no vsync.

[This message has been edited by tish beta2 (edited 10-10-1999).]

[Darek]

Thanks guys!

After reading all these messages, I concluded that there is nothing wrong with my system. The new TGL might improve some performance at lower resolutions but not much at 1024 and higher. It seems that 25 - 27 fps is normal when everything is on and all settings at max at 1024. So, if anyone claims that can get better than that I suggest you check your graphic options to make sure that we are using the same language. It also seems that there is not much performance gain going from PIII 450 to Athlon 600/PIII 600.