Low Quake3 scores with Geforce2 MX

[RoboTECH]

Dark4ng3l, at lower resolutions you are CPU limited.

HOWEVER, his scores are NOT indicative of this. Something else is wrong, or he would score MUCH higher than that.

I got higher than that with a Celeron 366 @ 534 + TNT2U

 

[Spoooon]

Did you disable VSync under OpenGL settings in display properties?

 

[lsd]

IF he was CPU limited his CPU would prbably be a p2 266. But its NOT. Yes the celeron is a castrated P3 but it has the same FPU. In q3 a c2 @ 870 is about a p3 700.

I remember having a similar problem with Q2. At any res. I`d get 60fps. All options were set on vsync disabled. I never found out what the problem was.

Evertec, did you disable vsync under game options?
Other than that the only thing left to do if a reinstall.

 

[RedWolf]

I really don't believe it's CPU limited. My scores dropped 30 fps when installing winME. You could argue that it's winME hurting the scores but the high res fps (1600x1200) hardly dropped at all (1-2 fps). I have a fresh install of winME and have disabled vsync in openGL settings as well as in quake3.

 

[Evertec]

I've got some wierd results to report. I made sure vsync was off in both the Windows OpenGL settings and in Quake3. I closed all programs and underclocked the CPU back to 533 At first, the framerates were as follows: (All in fast 16 bit)
640x480 - 60.1
800x600 - 60.2
1024x768 - 59.8
Then, I restarted the computer and all of a sudden, the framerates dropped 20 fps across the board. So, I overclocked back to 872 and it benchmarked at follows:
648x480 - 64.1
800x600 - 64.0
1024x768 - 61.2
The fact that at 533 MHz it performed almost as well as at 872 at first is baffling to me. Then, why would it drop 20 fps just by restarting the computer? BTW, again, it's not just Quake3 that is slow. 3dMark 2000 gets only 3800 3dmarks at default settings of 1024x768 and 16 bit. Looking through the online results browser, I see people with 450 MHz Celerons getting above 4000 3dMarks at those settings, and no one getting anywhere near as low as my scores. So, whatever the problem is, it's not limited to Quake3 or OpenGL. Again, thanks for your help everyone, and as soon as I get the time, I'll probably do a total format and start from scratch on this thing.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I barely get 60 fps with my cpu at the lowest and ugliest setings you can imagine and my cpu is NOT a p2 233