ATI Radeon AIW 8500 and Quake 2 Performance

[cdm0]

I have an ATI Radeon AIW 8500 and recently installed Quake II. Being an old game, I thought Quake 2 would run perfectly and smoothly in OpenGL mode, but it runs quite the opposite. Although it does run the game in OpenGL mode, the game becomes VERY sluggish during battles and when I pass through a complex part of a map. I tried messing around with the OpenGL settings in the ATI Control Panel, but the peformance remains the same. I am using the latest drivers (Catalyst 3.7).

Anyone know what's wrong and how I can fix the performance issues?

 

[Ionizer86]

Did you lower stuff like FSAA and Aniostropic filtering? Is your CPU performance reasonable?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

What are the specs of the rest of the computer? In the BIOS, what you set asd the AGP aperature size?

 

[cdm0]

Specs:

Soyo SY-KT400 Dragon Ultra
AMD Athlon 2000+ XP (1.67 GHz)
512 MB RAM


Did you lower stuff like FSAA and Aniostropic filtering? Is your CPU performance reasonable?
--> No, where can I do this and what should I set it to?

In the BIOS, what you set asd the AGP aperature size?
--> Default settings (never touched it). What should it be set to?

Thanks

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: cdm0
Specs:

Soyo SY-KT400 Dragon Ultra
AMD Athlon 2000+ XP (1.67 GHz)
512 MB RAM


Did you lower stuff like FSAA and Aniostropic filtering? Is your CPU performance reasonable?
--> No, where can I do this and what should I set it to?

In the BIOS, what you set asd the AGP aperature size?
--> Default settings (never touched it). What should it be set to?

Thanks

Right click on desktop, properties, settings, advanced, openGL, check AF and AA settings. Turn those off, the 8500 isn't designed to handle those.

It should be set to 128MB or even 256MB if it makes a difference.

 

[cdm0]

The settings didn't affect the performance. From what I've been hearing, Quake II is old technology and my card simply doesn't support it. Oh well.

Thanks

 

[mooojojojo]

Originally posted by: cdm0
The settings didn't affect the performance. From what I've been hearing, Quake II is old technology and my card simply doesn't support it. Oh well.

Thanks

Quake2 is OpenGL and ATi cards are not bad at that (I'm judging by Quake3 which is also OpenGL and runs fine on my system which is weaker than yours Celeron2GHz/9000Pro). It should run fine on your system. What resolution are you running it at?

 

[xSauronx]

the 8500 has decent aa/af at least in lower rates, i play Q3 based games wit some aa/af on my 8500 when i had it and had no problems

maybe this has to do with that cs related thing alot of people question about regularly, too lazy to find it, maybe in the tech faqs at anandtech?