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Windows 2000 vs Windows 98SE in Quake 3 Team Arena

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Aydalh

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I'm somewhat disappointed with the results of my timedemos.
I have TB 1000Ghz, Asus A7V, GeForce2 GTS, 128 RAM, 10gig 5400 Maxtor HDD.
I used the detonator 3 drivers on both OSes.
At 1024x768 with all the details on (FSAA off though) I ran mpdemo1 with timedemo enabled, in which there are 3-5 bots and 1-7 rockets constantly displayed on your screen and I got the following results:
Win 98SE: 59 fps
Win 2000, clean install, no tweaking, admin account: 34 fps
Win 2000 with some services turned off, powerused: 41 fps
Disappointed with the results this is where I started messing with the CPU priorities. On high priority mode with no outside applications running besides Q3TA I got up to 47 fps before suffering a major crash. On realtime mode I crashed twice 10 min through the demo. My system has always been stable and running at 47 celsius cpu/23 celsius mb.
Damn if I know what to do. I'm getting a new harddrive next week and probably some more RAM but 12 fps is a huge difference when you're using the same variables with the lower value pushed to the very maximum =[
 
Somewhat disappointed?😕 You have a serious problem if that's all your getting with that system. Are you sure your running the demo properly? Those numbers don't make sense. I have a P3-750@930, 512MB, GeForce GTS DDR and at 1152x864, 16-bit color I get 105 fps under 98SE. 🙂
 
FYI:
I was just playing with drivers for the NVIDIA geforce..7.10 and above hose my system...6.49 gave me 1000 more 3d marks...that made me decide to keep win2k as I am only about 500 short of my tweaked ME score...
 
the 6.31 drivers for 2000 SUCKS for OpenGL that is why you got good scores in 98)...it is REALLY stable but no performance...upgrade the drivers and see what that does for you! 🙂
 
badthad I'm talking about Team Arena. Try 32 bit with highest detail textures and see if you get the same fps. And don't forget to load the demo in timemode, I could get a zillion fps staring at a wall.
 
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