Topic: bad framerate in quake
started by: fatbitch
ANYWAY, i have an athlon running at 950mhz and a Geforce DDR/256, on win2k (though i get exactly the same framerate in winme). i run my desktop at 1280x1024x32bpp, and quakeworld at the same res/bpp. now, i would think that with my setup the geforce would be in heaven and be absolutely pumping along at well over 100fps. but i only get a maximum of 60fps, and am after more. the max quake can do is 72fps (its limited somewhere in the code) and it runs incredible at that framerate, eaiser tricks etc. so what am i doing wrong? like i said i would expect a geforce to fly, especially on an old game like quake. but it doesnt. any suggestions? thanks
oh yeah, and even if i run quake at 640x480x8bpp i still get the same framerate. if i take my destop res down to 800x600 say, i get 72fps, but i love 1280x1024 too much
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This message has been edited by fatbitch on February 10, 2001 at 06:51 PM
are you sure that the max is 72fps? hell, 60 should be enough, even for quake
btw, < Doom Legacy > fucking 0wnz j00.
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You weird man.
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the cl_maxfps command is the one, but that sets the max fps you can have, i.e it caps your fps to that number, so you cant get above that. i dont think theres a minfps command tho
quote:hrm... i dont think becuase you see it, its better. sort of like if your playing a game (lets say UT) on a net server. you perform a little rocket jump, and you lag just a bit. just because you dont see how far you go doesnt mean you didnt go that far.
Originally posted by fatbitch:
i said quake runs best at 72fps. longer jumps, higher rjumps etc.
heh heh, i know it sounds weird, but it makes sense to me.
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Originally posted by askheaves:
How much 3D acceleration can you do in Quake I? I haven't played in years, so I don't know. I have to imagine that a lot of the slowdown is because so much geometry and floating point math is probably still being done by the CPU, not a graphics card. Even OpenGL (if that's what's going) has limitations on what can be farmed out to the card.
Well.. Glquake uses hardware transforms, believe it or not. A quake1 level has a really rather low resolution texture set, so I suspect that you can happily store all the mipmaps of all the textures in a level in memory on a 32MB card. Really I would expect it to absolutely fly.
GLquake automatically detects whether a card can do multitexturing, and uses that to blend in the lightmaps. That said, it uses the GL_SGIS_MULTITEXTURE opengl extension to do this, there is another one, though, called GL_ARB_MULTITEXTURE, which is the only one i'd previously heard of before looking into this.. I do not know, but i hypothesise, that the ARB simply adopted the sgi multitexturing ext as a standard..
There's probably an internal frame rate limit...
But since Rhydant said that, exactly how big are the increments? a lot? a little? does it really matter that much? are we just doing this for the sake of arguement? am i just rambling on again? a.. oh.. yes i am.
Win2K treats everything like PCI without them, meaning you see framerates <= 72 fps.