32 FPS in Q2 with a Radeon LE??

[EasyPickins]

That cant be right on a PII 458 MHz, 196M RAM. I've used Radeon Tweaker and gone thru all the options and set them to the recommended. I've got it running at 180 MHz. V-sync is disabled (but monitor refresh is 85 MHz). HyperZ was enabled by using a registry tweak. I'm using the latest drivers released a few days ago.

Any ideas? What am I missing, because this is slower than the Voodoo2 I just took out!

 

[DarkKnight]

It's probably slower cause Quake 2 was optimized for the Voodoo 2 and not the Raedon. My Voodoo 5, which is a hell of a lot faster than my Voodoo 2, runs slower in Quake 2.

 

[vss1980]

Darknight, nah, my TNT2 could pull well over 30 FPS easily in Quake2 when it was on a P2-400. Quake2 is an old game now and it did have a few optimisations for the Voodoo, but it should still be able to go higher using OpenGL (I assume you have put it in OpenGL mode and not standard software rendering).

 

[CoMmAnDoMoE2001]

Quake2 was not optimized for Voodoo's It runs F**King fast!!!! on mine

 

[CoMmAnDoMoE2001]

Quake 2 was optimised for OpenGL
and back then Voodoo's were the best for Quake 2 coz they had full support for OpenGL and that they were one of the best card back then.
everything I have said I saw in a article a few weeks ago online sorry that I can't support the link :|

 

[EasyPickins]

Yes, of course in OpenGL mode. lol.

 

[CoMmAnDoMoE2001]

Their is this problem I know of
the Voodoo 2 is still in your Reg
Backup your savegame files and reinstall Quake 2
this worked for me in Diablo 2 when installing a Geforce

 

[vss1980]

Yeah, and dont forget to grab the patches, 3.20 is/was the latest version (I doubt it has been improved upon since I stopped playing it a year ago).

 

[CoMmAnDoMoE2001]

Yea
or tweak Quake 2
some people did and got 20fps more

 

[Finality]

What resolution are you running at?

At 800 by 600 I was getting about 65 fps on my TNT2 stock. With my GTS @ 1024 I'm getting well past 120.

 

[oldfart]

You should be getting A LOT more than that. Mke sure there are no 3dfx opengl files hanging around. Delete your config.cfg file. Start the game and it will generate a new one. Be sure to use defaulty opengl, not 3dfx.

 

[EasyPickins]

800x600

Didnt mention it before but now the sound card isnt working either (sound blaster16)...no conflicts in device manager. grrrrrrrr