Quake 3A Four Demo w/ GeForce 4 Ti 4600

[zimmie6576]

This is a bit of nit-picking, but someone may have the answer. I recently ran the Q3A four.dm_67 demo with my new Ti 4600 card. My concern is only get about 100 fps (there is always a decimal, but it keeps changing, .1, .3, ...). On the benchmark posted on this site, the 4600 gets 218 fps. My processor is only a 1.2 GHZ T-Bird, whereas the test one was an Athlon XP 2000+, but I don't think that that would acount for me only getting half the score. Here's my info:

1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon T-Bird
512 Meg RAM (PC133)
Visiontek GeForce 4 Ti 4600 (using version 28.32 drivers)

Oh, and I ran the demo at the same resolution and color depth as was done in the benchmark on this site. I even played around with different color depths and resolutions, and I was getting the same score. Does anyone think I may have to increase my maximum frames per second in Q3A? I've heard this was possible, but I haven't figured out how to do it.

I know 100 fps is good, but with much lower level cards getting 130 fps and higher, I am quite concerned.

 

[merlocka]

is vsync on? you might be measuring your refresh rate...

 

[rainypickles]

there is a maxfps cap. i guess it is there to keep things steady?

i think you do com_maxfps to see the cap. /com_maxfps = 0 to uncap. i am not sure about quake syntax and how to make it persistent. set com_maxfps=0 ? i have no idea. but that is the command, i think.

 

[harbinger52]

You will be CPU limited on Q3. You shouldn't be that low though. Im only getting 167fps w/XP1800 + G4 4600

 

[ButterB]

I am running a P4 1.3 and a PNY GF4 ti4400 and I am having the same issues. I am reaching a FPS of 122.5 on maxed settings @ 1024x768. I was assuming I would reach somewhere in the 170-190 range. Even with fastest settings (512x384) I am getting only 140 FPS. Vsync is off, AA is off, antiscopic is off, com_maxFPS 0 (anything I missed?). Is this a CPU limit? I could have sworn that I saw P3 800 users getting 150+ with GF3s. Just seems low to me. My 3dmark seems on par with similar non oc'd systems (7266) so I'm just curious what it could be or if its the norm for that CPU speed.

B-

P4 1.3 Dell 8100
(please don't laugh, I'm working on building a new one)
256MB PC800 RDRAM
PNY GF4 ti4400

 

[BAMAVOO]

do max fps 400 and see what you get

 

[BFG10K]

At what game settings? If they're CPU limited then you're not going to get the same results as someone else using a faster processor.

Also make sure vsync is disabled in your driver control panel and make sure you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers installed for your system. You can also disable the framerate cap using com_maxFPS 0 but note that this setting makes no difference when running timedemos.