Quake III looks like crap in win2k compared to win98se

[Daudi]

I have a geforce2 gts and just installed win2k for stability reasons. I have the det 6.49 drivers and QIII looks terrible. Not even close to as detailed as in win98se. It runs just as smoothly but I can't get over it. I am a picky person when it comes to this...it's just minor details in the game, but there is alot of them that's different with win2k which makes it annoying...basically it's not nearly as detailed with win2k. Is there a certain driver/patch I need for win2k in order for it to look as good w/ win98se.

 

[Gorgonzola]

umm, sure you haven't got some of your gfx settings different to the way you had them under win98? coz it looks exactly the same on mine.

 

[Daudi]

no their the exact same...i specifically checked the graphix settings in q3..same exact thing..

 

[lsd]

Is it a problem with lighting?

 

[SYST3M]

a good thing to try is that you keep your q3config.cfg that way you know al the settings are the same. i personally haven't had a problem with differences in q3 win9x/win2k. what point release are you using. try upgrading to the 1.27h patch as i have heard that it clears up some issues with texture compression. make sure r_picmip is set to 0 and not higher. r_texturecompression 0 [think thats the command, if you ever want to find a command but don't know all of it just type in what you know in the console, in this case r_text, and press tab and it will display all of the commands that start with that phrase] hope this helps. and it may be a good idea to jump back to the 6.35 drivers to see if that makes a difference.

 

[juiio]

Sorry to say it, but this is a user error and not anything to do with your OS.

 

[Pauli]

I have noticed this problem with MechWarrior Vengeance. I'm going to try it with WinME tonight.

 

[GT1999]

There is a clear difference in image quality in Quake III Arena between Windows98/ME and Windows 2000. The best thing you can do is the following:

- Edit your video drivers so that you can play games at 85+Hz refresh rates or get a program called nvreffix.exe from fileplanet.com

- Type "seta r_intensity 1.6" and then "vid_restart" in your Quake III console
- Type "seta r_overbrightbits 0" in the console and then you can adjust your "brightness" higher
- Type &quot;seta r_displayrefresh <xx>&quot; in your console, xx being the higher the refresh rate as possible.
- Disable texture compression, as mentioned.
- You can also try &quot;seta r_ignorehwgamma 1&quot; in the console, but I do NOT recommend doing this command together with r_intensity, it will create an overbright picture that you will not like.


I hope these commands help - they did on this end. Nothing beats 98SE for games, though - but Windows 2000 is a much better operating system, and is worth the small troubles it causes [sometimes] in 3D games. Once SP2 is out a lot of these problems will probably be resolved.

 

[Daudi]

what's sp2?

 

[GT1999]

Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000 Professional/Server/Advanced Server - it is due out sometime in the near future, probably February if Microsoft sticks to their 6 month SP update cycle.