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I have a Nvidia 256mb - stable com_maxfps 125 on well built maps. Loses about 20fps occasionally at certain areas of some maps but only for a short time

Used to have a Celestica Radeon ATI 128mb. I could get a stable 125fps on all q3 maps (varied in some detailed custom maps). On OA it bounces about between 80 and 125 on alot of maps so still playable if the server has pmove_fixed 1 (not alot of them do :/ )

Uh oh, you're going to get it now! Voodoo 2 has 12MB of memory. fromhell will not be pleased, ;)



I have a box of old video cards but I mainly use these:

* Radeon x850XTPE 256MB - free driver GPU
* Quadro 560 128MB - need the quadbuffer support to play OA in stereo 3d

XFXForce FX5500 256MB DDR2

I got me an ATI RageM3 8mb hahahaahah! I can actually get a good 60fps (640x480,no dynamic light,16bit textures) out of it but usually stays at 40. I also have a 32mb Nvidia GeForce2 MX (800x600,fullquality,but no flares) Looks decent but gets 60fps across the board. Yes both my computers suck, both cards are soldered on the motherboards so no gpu upgrade.

Poor PsYthe and JESUS can only get 30/40 fps :( If I could donate some I would.

I have a GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB in my primary computer
and an Intel graphics chip with 0 MB in my laptop (uses 64 MB of the machines memory)

I have GeForce 8600 GT 512MB with full details on 1024x768 (my mouse won't move on 1280x1024) FPS is never below 70.

7800GT w/256
I get a steady 125 FPS with it in quake games.

256mb on the nvidia geforces of my primary computer (9600m gt and 9400m…guess what computer?;)).

Beside that, i could check everything...

Some Intel GMA965 chipset (X3100), as stated on Kernel 2.6.28, GEM (Graphics Execution Manager) and OA benchmarks (http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=2662.0).
I don't remember how much memory it emulates, but I think that's not what matters the most ;)

It's quite okay to play OA with. FPS flickers so much it's hard to tell how much I have (I don't know how to run some benchmark) ; I'd say it's around 60fps (from 50 to 80) on oasago2 with graphical settings between low and average ; And I think I had similar FPS with some Nvidia Geforce 5200 64MB I had on another laptop.

nvidia 7300 GT 256

Dual Video card GeForce 8800GT - 512mb SLI ready
I never seen anything below 125 FPS, using 640x480 res


You probably dont have your oa setting optimized for peak FPS performance. You should be getting 125 FPS

512 mb 8600GT.  Running 22" widescreen 1680x1050.  Solid 125 fps.

About 100mm x 230mm.

Yeah, I thought the same :). Not everything fits into the how big is your ... questions :P.

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256 MB oc'ed Version -> steady 125 FPS @ 1280 x 1024 of course

whatever's in my macbook.

I use the gFORCE

2 mx400 64MB

On many maps 125 fps (unstable) due to mapdesign)

r_picmip 3
vertex On

upgraded to geforce 9600gt, meow. r_picmip 0 r_texturemode gl_linear_mipmap_linear and various other settings in driver and oa on max with 125 fps.  max stable 166fps but jumping feels weird at higher than 125 to me.

You were probably connected to a server with pmove_fixed 0

yes. most servers don't seem to use it unfortunatly.

coincidently the author of noghost maverick posted something today re: the physics of q3 related to pmove_fixed with a summarised explanation - also linking the more detailed stuff.

Note the title : com_maxfps and game performance

http://forums.noghost.net/cgi-bin/ib/ikonboard.cgi?s=9b3903a1a06bf4ee0b336f52f614d388;act=ST;f=9;t=4425
(ignore pmove_accurate because oa doesnt support that)

ok I'm not badly affected because I can maintain a stable 125, but alot of people cant.. which puts them at a major disadvantage.

lets hope these server admin / hosters take note

ah ok .. so you didnt just pick a random number after all :D :D

2 options?! I have the entire range! OA only really starts to choke on 8mb cards

yes only two.  actually my ibook g3 600mhz 384ram 8mb rage mobility is in the 40-60 fps range though i cap it at 25 or 30 to keep it smooth

75hz with vsync gives me 1 less jump unit height than 125 and can still make the same jumps in maps with it.

mine is about 5 inches X 7 inches

it is pretty big and makes lots of noise :)

NVidia GeForce 9600 GT :D At $100 it's the best value for the buck you'd find through 2008 and up to now :) I like that NVidia actively supports Linux... very important to have manufacturer-made drivers!

Have a Radeon 4850.

I got 128mb now, but in 1 or 2 weeks I get a new pc with Asus9800GT 1GB :)

512 mB GeForce 9600GT :D

full length vlb isa slot here, beat that

Yah, I know i should have worded it differently!!!

Sad. Now integrated and mobile graphics have surpassed my 7800GS AGP with 256mb. They need 512mb to do it though!

64 on pc and 256 on lap

who else chose 8mb? I was starting to get lonely!!!!

I tried choosing all of them since I do actually own the entire range of the options, but I was stuck to two. This sucked.

where is the 1 GB and 2 GB?
I have 1 GB :)

I never knew so many people had crappy video cards hahaha. Until last week I had a Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS, but since I was playing on a burnt out card for about a year, one of my homeboys from Q4 sent me a BFG 8800 GT OC'd edition card.

Nvidia 6150 SE integrated graphics. :P  OA is the only game I play for PC.  I dont feel like putting in $150 for a new Power Supply and graphics card for a free game. 640X480 resolution FTW. :D

640x480 is a little small, but I agree that it doesn't always need to be like 1600x900 or something (800x600 is for me minimum actually)

I have a 3D Labs Oxygen VX1 with 32MiB of memory. It's not a gaming card and quirky drivers don't really help at all.
Recently I acquired a nVIDIA TNT2 M64 graphics card (32 MiB). I also had a Matrox G200 8 MiB.

I actually play OpenArena on my primary computer which has a Radeon X600 Pro(did not measure framerate, but did not experience any difficulty running OA on all high settings and resolution 1152x864), and will hopefully get a Geforce 6600 GT 256 MiB in the next month or so.

Up until 2005 my only computer had a graphics card with 256 KiB(yes, it says kibibytes) of memory.

So you lived on standard 320x200x8/640x480x4 VGA all this time?

Jeez! It wasn't until 1991 when I moved up away from 256kb to a 512kb RealTek card.

We'll due to financial issues and stuff, plus I live in a shitty country I had to make ends meet with a reject computer from our school. However, I learned a lot with these things. Especially why optimization is sometimes necessary. I'm glad that era ended.

BTW, It could go up to 800x600x4.

omg I thought my geforce 6800 (previous pc) sucked for gaming. Tweaking and optimizing windowsxp worked good enough for most programs, but for hi-q games you can't do much else than overclocking (which I can't really).

Upgraded to an 512MB DDR3 Nvidia 9600GT a while back, and recently got a 2.8gig triple-core AMD processor as well.

/timedemo 1
3190 frames 4.0 seconds 794.9 fps 0.0/1.3/3.0/0.4 ms
]/condump fps.txt
Dumped console text to fps.txt.

Pretty decent fps!!! :D

I has a Radeon 4850 with 512MB.

I also have a second identical card and a motherboard that can do Crossfire, but the one card is apparently enough to play UT3 and CoD4 at 1600x1200 and >30FPS, so I never bothered to figure out how to Crossfire them.

I have a GForce FX5500 256 mb ram in desktop and an integrated Intel GM965 256 mb ram in my laptop. Both working awesomely nice with OpenArena! =)

Same here. :D

It's 2009 and people are still stuck on the FX series? :(

Do you expect Win95 (http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=3362.msg27845#msg27845) users to have better cards ? ;)

Yes, the Geforce4.

I just updated the drivers of a Geforce2, it now runs OA smoothly (only loading is still a pain), haven't tested how good yet but better than the 1-2fps i got before ^^

It's so interesting the point that more than 50% of votes is at least for 128MB, of course, there are many people with more modest hardware.

I bought a new PC last May and it has an ATI HD5850 with 1GB graphics card but before I had two old PCs: one with a Nvidia GF2 with 32 MB RAM and another with an integrated VIA graphics card that took 16 MB of system RAM.

Luckily OpenArena runs well on PCs that are little more than pieces of junk though I prefer it on my new one with its new screen running at a 1920x1080 resolution. ;D

I think that your new PC barely run Quake2 in software rendering... ;D

Seriously, now you can unlock the secret "Legendary CVARS" like cg_angelyssHighpolyBreast, r_shaderModel3.0, r_hyperFancybutuselessFX, r_subdivisions 0.00000000010. :P

It's 2010 and now a gts250 with 1gb memory after various 9 series capacitor failures leaking all over the cards.

How can I change 128mb to 1gb :|

I have an ATI RADEON 5450HD 512MB

full fps @ 1280 x 960 and very good graphics

FYI: if you get 2fps in openarena, your video card is not working.

The fps should at least be 20 if you have a Voodoo Banshee (which is 1998 technology), and technically, all on-board hardware is superior over that.

In my MacBook Pro, 256MB GeForce GT 330M with CUDA, not that this affects OA all that much.

For some reason my FPS runs at 60-70 on some occasions and 250 on others. I have it set at 250 maximum, and I use GL extensions and all that. So glad I switched from the GMA 965 in my old computer...that only ran at 125 FPS if I cut all the graphical stuff down to just about nothing.

In my 5-year old gaming rig at home, 128MB ATi Radeon X800SE. Thing's a dinosaur but it just won't die. Runs OA at 300+ FPS with the same graphical enhancements I've only recently gotten on my laptop (which I've only recently gotten anyway). That GPU is going to outlast the machine, no surprises there.

I also have a BFG GeForce GTX 260 at home...216 processing cores and 896MB of memory (so I voted for 1GB), of which I have 100% access at any point. The thing needs 38 amps on a 12V rail. It's a beast. Uses 525W of the 750W power supply. Intense. Needless to say, it's still in the box as I've yet to purchase any other components to the custom system for which I bought the GPU.

Once I do, I'll be sure to perform a few stress tests and the like. OA is a fairly non-intensive game...for the record, the aforementioned X800 of mine crashes if I try to run a game made later than 2005 (ie Doom 3, Quake 4, Half-Life 2...anything not Civilization or OA). I'm not exactly designing a computer around OA overkill, but hey...why not play around a bit. :P 

Yeah for the FPS problems something is certainly wrong with this pc.  It segfaults with Urban Terror a lot and on windows blue screens randomly with gl/d3d.  Also I get shocks from the back plate which defy explanation after checking things out many times.

Well , recycled and 2nd hand PCs had a great success this year at CEBIT , and I mean 2010 .... lol

Try swapping your RAM modules, maybe one of them is fucked up.

Do some memory test (Everest or Ubuntu memory test should work).

What power supply you have? The backplate shocks can be explained if the PS is a piece of junk.

RAM Memory test:
http://www.memtest86.com/

ATI HD5850 with 1GB graphics on my laptop

memtest86+ done several times and also recently, not a problem.  The PS doesn't seem like a piece of junk either although that doesn't mean its not the problem.  It could be one or more of several things.  A USB hub seems a likely suspect though.  The crashes actually seem like they are unrelated.  If I switch the graphics card for an older ATI one the crashes stop.  The only problem with doing that is they are slow at textures so can only play really old or 2d games with them.

Yup. Even worse for me, FX5200 PCI. None of this AGP stuff :D

ATI x300 64mb on a Dell Latitude D610.

I'm about to up my pc with a 512 or 640mb 8800gts.
When I play I'm usually using an 8mb Rage M3 in my laptop, a 64mb Radeon 9600pro agp in my G5 tower, or an awful 128mb radeon x1300/x1550pcie in my pc which is completely smoked in opengl by the 9600pro.

I bought myself a nvidia GTS 250 as a welcoming back present (I was in hospital  twice with multiple leg fractures with complications after a car accident). That graphics card rocks and is more than sufficient to play OpenArena on, when I play com_maxfps 125 at 1280x1024 it stays in energy-conserving mode and I have to crank the game up to com_maxfps 333 to get the card's powermizer to go into hi-performance mode.

Experimenting with com_maxfps 333 for a bit I'm starting to agree more and more with the decision to elevate pmove_float 1 to standard, because 333 fps with client-side physics is just too powerful, jumps become ridiculously high. It becomes way too easy to reach the MH in oa_rpg3dm2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z7cyRh2eWg) for instance.

Welcome back, man!  :) :) :)

Thanks!

My leg got infected because there were tiny bone fragments sticking in my muscles so I had to get back to hospital in a hurry, and it took a while to get the fragments out and the infections under control. Things are going very well right now, I'm in a lot less pain then two months ago, my limp is almost gone and I'm working for four hours a day again. As you can see I'm even in a playful mood again sometimes :)

I use a geforce 6200. Its agp socket. Its sadly my most up to date desktop at around a 2004 model lol.

About the random freezing, low fps and blue screens.  Updating nvidia driver to more recent 260.* on Linux and 270.* for Windows 7 appears to have fixed it entirely.  Maybe will for others too.  The shocks have also gone without that usb hub.  It's funny really, as soon as those problems go away my ISP screws up by actually giving line settings against their own policy and not forwarding packets at the 3rd hop half the time.

This topic's about how 'big'.
(http://www.bytefixx.com/ebay/avid474.jpg)

So no one has this?

FUN FACT: Q3 supports this card.

Wow... what's that?

Its an old(?) DVR card, but I don't know what brand or type.

I have to say, the Voodoo3 was a big deal to me...

Before that, was the Matrox Expansion Card that enabled OpenGL