[quake3-bugzilla] [Bug 3526] Recent ATI drivers not cooperating with SDL_GL_ACCELERATED_VISUAL

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https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3526

--- Comment #6 from Tim Angus <tim at ngus.net> 2011-08-21 17:08:06 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Also, quake3 engines seem to have an abysmal performance with the catalyst
> driver, at least on windows. Strangely, users have reported renaming the exe
> file to "quake3.exe" fixed these issues for them.

You probably already know this, but it's relatively well known that various
video drivers detect Q3 and enable a specific optimal code path that performs
well with the way Q3 uses the OpenGL API.

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