Want more FPS in Quake 3 in NT5?

[DosFreak]

If you are using the 5.10 NT5 drivers then copy the G400ICD.dll out of the 5.01 drivers and put it into the Quake 3
directory. You will get increased framerates and the shadow problem will not be there.


5.10/5.01

Diff
1152X864=27.9/29.6 1.7
1024X768=34.5/36.8 2.3
960X720 =27.0/27.8 .8
800X600 =47.1/51.2 4.1
640X480 =49.2/54.2 5
512X384 =49.4/54.6 5.2
400X300 =39.3/50.4 11.1
320X240 =49.9/55.3 5.4


P.S. Why do Matrox's drives always get slower and Nvidia/3dfx get faster? Also why are 960X720 and 400X300 windowed
and not full screen?

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C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
\RUN\DOS\RUN

[giskard]

Tried your suggestion. Gave me an extra 5 fps or so @ 800x600. Good tip. Now it's hit about the same speed as i enjoyed in win98.

Cheers,

giskard

[good health to all]

Did you notice the file size differences?
g400icd.dll for 501 is 1,884 KB
g400icd.dll for 510 is 796 KB

Talk about trimming the fat.

[good health to all]

I tried it with half-life. It doesn't work; so I have to go back to 510 icd.

[DosFreak]

Just copy the G400ICD.DLL to the game directory for games that work with it.

Yeah, I wonder what they took out to make it so small?

[GD]

Hi there!

Well, I suppose this does not work with any TurboGL driver right? :-)

Anyway I'll try it and let you know... I don't care much about average I just do not want my FPS to fall to approx. 7 during the action scenes...

Anyway I get 20fps with a PII450 using the normal settings... I wonder if this is the case with other systems as well...

However the difference between different configurations is very very small. This is what I mean:

a) 640- everything minimum : 20.4 fps
b) 640- everything to max apart from texture detail which is set to min: 19.7 fps
c) 800- as above : 19.4 fps

Let me know if you have any ideas of what might be wrong.

Again, thanks for the tip DosFreak!

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[DosFreak]

G200 users

DO the same thing but use G200ICD.DLL. I don't have a G200 so I ran the benchmarks on my G400. The G200 5.01 ICD was the fastest.

[NeSuR]

Hello everyone!

I tried with Half-Life in w98 with a G200 and it also works! You have to copy it to the half-life directory (not valve), so it should be (probably) \half-life. I did that, because for my system PD5.52's opengl is better than PD6, but PD6's direct3d is better.

Thanks!