[quake2] ati-driver and q2 performance

tei 421621 at ingta.unizar.es
Mon Mar 21 09:42:27 EST 2005


Looks like ATI its optimized for Direct3D and some normal OpenGL 
operations suffer from that.

ATI cards are fast ( I myself have a ATI card ) but not that good for 
OpenGL.

Anyway 50fps looks suspicious similar to 60 fps, maybe some fixed 
framerate or vsync its active?

Anders Storsveen wrote:
> 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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