Quake 3 Arena and Radeon 9500 Pro

[Rich3077]

Hiya,


I just upgraded from a geforce 2mx 440 to a Radeon 9500 Pro.
Okay.. I know this Radeon is better than my old card.. but I am getting the same FPS in Quake 3 Arena
as my old card.
I must be doing something wrong.

System is a P4 2.4b @3.1
1 gig PC2700
Agp apature set at 256 MB

I havent tried the timedemos because I can't remember the command to start them,
but while playing the game my FPS hangs in the 90's.

I was really looking forward to seeing awsome frame rates.
Any advice??

Thanks
Rich

 

[BFG10K]

Did you completely remove all traces of your nVidia card?
Also check your control panel and make sure you don't have FSAA, vsync or turform enabled.

I havent tried the timedemos because I can't remember the command to start them,

~
timedemo 1
demo four

but while playing the game my FPS hangs in the 90's.

Ah, there's your problem right there. Quake III has a default framerate cap of 90 FPS during the game. To disable it, use com_maxFPS 0 either in the console or in the config file.

 

[Rich3077]

Thanks BFG10K!!


I always did want to see frame rates in the hundreds!

I tried the com_maxFPS command and it works like a charm.
Frame rates now between 200 and 300 during play.



Peace
Rich