turning on triple buffernig in Q3 arena

[John Rambo]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

johnR

[Alec]

Since no one answers John RAMBO:

I GUESS (but I´m not sure) that if you force Triple Buffering with the Registry Hacks, It will be enabled in the game.

But I´m not sure...

[Frankfurt]

well, i had it enabled, but i noticed that when it was on my FPS went from ok to horrible, i know its my system, but thats my opinion of the triple buffering in Q3A

Frankfurt

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Here is my crappy system config:
K6-3 450, 256MB SDRAM,Tyan Trinity ATX (S1598 2mb cache on board), <b>Matrox G400 Max </b>
Windows 98SE/Mandrake Linux 7.0/win2k/beos 5.0 (free version)
SB 128 PCI
AOpen Lan aln-325c

[Rik]

I've a sneaking suspicion that the support isn't yet in the ICD for Triple Buffering- I can't see the extension listed in the driver info in Q3A.
When you stick V-Sync on in Q3A it makes the games much slower and jerkier, and I don't think this should happen when Triple Buffering is on.

[xortam]

Odd statement about V-Synch ... intuitively, it would seem that enabling it would smooth out the motion, yet potentially decrease the FPS.

[Nuno]

With V-synch disabled (as it is by default in the ICD) there isn´t a point doing triple buffering. TB increases performance (in some cases) with V-synch on because as you have 3 buffers you have more chance to hit a "start refreshing" in the monitor.
One more buffer also increases memory requirements. In games with lots of textures (like Q3) it doesn´t nothing but hurt performance because the video card starts doing AGP texturing sooner.

[John Rambo]

Ok, but what is the default setting of buffering in q3 arena ?. Double buffer with Vsync disabled or enabled.

Is it true?, that OGL API doesn`t know about TB. (D3D does).