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Title: Slow
Post by: chuuno on August 05, 2007, 04:21:30 AM
This game runs very slow.  Slow enough to prevent me from playing.
My hardware is:
256MB of RAM
Radeon 7000
Pentium 4 1700MHz processor
Windows XP

Can anyone tell me why it's so slow and how to fix it?


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: anyone on August 05, 2007, 05:51:58 AM
I'm not a professional but I bet it's the RAM. 512Mo would help. ;)


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: sago007 on August 05, 2007, 05:58:43 AM
256 MB should be enough for a Quake 3 engine game.

The graphics card is more likely the problem. ATIs OpenGL support has always been below average.

If you are using the drivers with Windows or Windows Update you might not have any OpenGL hardware acceleration at all!
Try some different drivers if you can still find them, a newer driver is not always better.


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: iLeft.bye on August 05, 2007, 06:55:27 AM
that conf is more than enough. play at 800x600. you need the proper drivers if you dont have them.


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: fromhell on August 05, 2007, 11:20:59 AM
It's your drivers.

The game is playable on 1998-spec cards (Voodoo2, TNT) so it shouldn't really be a problem on R100


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: dmn_clown on August 05, 2007, 01:23:12 PM
Can anyone tell me why it's so slow and how to fix it?

mess around with your settings until you find a speed that is right for you.


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: Fitacus on August 05, 2007, 01:38:44 PM


The game is playable on 1998-spec cards (Voodoo2, TNT) so it shouldn't really be a problem on R100

Playable...but for serious online gaming u need constantly 125 FPS ;) Get a cheap Nvidia GF3 via eBay that would be enough for smooth fragging and maybe double RAM. 


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: w1zrd on August 05, 2007, 01:53:23 PM


The game is playable on 1998-spec cards (Voodoo2, TNT) so it shouldn't really be a problem on R100

Playable...but for serious online gaming u need constantly 125 FPS ;) Get a cheap Nvidia GF3 via eBay that would be enough for smooth fragging and maybe double RAM. 
If you are serious about gaming you would use a constant 333.3 fps, r_picmip 6 and plenty of Jolt.


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: beast on August 05, 2007, 02:48:42 PM
If you are serious about gaming you would use a constant 333.3 fps, r_picmip 6 and plenty of Jolt.

World beginning to spin around me... Seizure imminent... Someone frag me before my head explodes... :-)


Title: Re: Slow
Post by: supermatic on August 05, 2007, 04:09:49 PM

Try adjust setup/system/network/data rate



Title: Re: Slow
Post by: Linux on August 06, 2007, 03:16:32 PM
chuuno, how much fps you got?