[quake2] ati-driver and q2 performance

Nelson Marques nmarques at netvisao.pt
Sat Mar 19 13:48:49 EST 2005


I have a higer FPS on Q2 than on Q3, much higher. SDL has lower 
performance, and I always run Q2 from X.

nmarques

Anders Storsveen wrote:

> I have the same fps in both glx and sdl in quake2. quake3 is always good.
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> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 03:52:06 +0100, Nelson Marques 
> <nmarques at netvisao.pt>  wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>  You forgot prolly the most important, SDL or GLX, I doubt that you 
>> get  such a poor performance using GLX, quake 3 uses GLX. That is the 
>> most  likely explanation.
>>
>>  Best regards,
>>  nmarques
>>
>> Anders Storsveen wrote:
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>>> what is it with the ati-driver that gives so crappy performance in  
>>> quake2?  I have great performance in quake3. 125 fps constant i  
>>> 800x600, in 640 in  q2 I get around 50 fps...
>>>
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