Ok the problem was the graphics card was overclocked too much.
@550Mhz I get 116Fps with no in game tweaks. No tweaks tried to gain FPS in Quake.

Playing the game itself is silly fast with FPS going up to 300!!! On 1024x768 :0

Skalabala wrote on 2021-08-04, 19:30:

Ok the problem was the graphics card was overclocked too much.
@550Mhz I get 116Fps with no in game tweaks. No tweaks tried to gain FPS in Quake.

Playing the game itself is silly fast with FPS going up to 300!!! On 1024x768 :0

116fps in quake 3? Did you use a sound card? The sound engine kills the cpu. I got 168fps without a sound card.

I am sure that it must have been quake 2 😀

Skalabala wrote on 2021-08-04, 19:30:

Ok the problem was the graphics card was overclocked too much.
@550Mhz I get 116Fps with no in game tweaks. No tweaks tried to gain FPS in Quake.

Playing the game itself is silly fast with FPS going up to 300!!! On 1024x768 :0

116 fps in quake2 is really good.

My record so far in quake2 with my Geforce 256 DDR is in the 140s.

I cant remember witch driver it was. I ended up not using that driver since I lost some fps in quake3.

Edit: btw. I have made a custom version of both quake3 and quake2 with extremely compressed textures and sounds. I have reduced the quake3 pak files with 350 megabytes if data, and quake 2 with something similar. Send me a PM if you want to try ut out. It is basically a low res and low res sound mod. These versions made wonders on low specs computers. I have one computer with a pentium 233mmx @266 with a riva 128. I got 12fps with stock settings in quake2. With my custom quake2 with custom exe and custom cfg I now get 32 frames per second in timedemo1 map demo1.dm2

Whats the sense of getting more FPS if it looks like Doom 1 in the End ?

matze79 wrote on 2021-11-08, 09:01:

Whats the sense of getting more FPS if it looks like Doom 1 in the End ?

It is fun to make games playable on machines that back then that almost couldt run the game in the first place. Back in 1997 i went to lans playing Quake 2 every weekend with my pentium 133 with a s3 virge. Probably had around 10 frames per second back then. Stilled played.

Nowdays it is fun to try to get past 60 fps on poor machines, just to get a smooth playable experience

Heh. Guess we are looking at the birth of fastquake2

The filesize of my quake2 and quake 3

yeah recompressing data, we did this for Fallout 3 and New Vegas, recompress all audio files and also all textures to gain maximum performance.
But the Point was we simply had no money to buy a better computer 😁

Im just hunting more frames per second 😀

This is with sound and a crippled dirty win98 and not the best nvidia driver
Using K6-2+

Skalabala wrote on 2021-11-09, 18:37:

This is with sound and a crippled dirty win98 and not the best nvidia driver
Using K6-2+

Wooooow!! You impressed me all right. I was struggeling for months to break 100fps

Could you tell me more of your hardware and drivers?

Drivers for gpu is not clean, I was testing games. Had about 10 drivers on it. This was done with 7.76.
Windows 98 SE but installed random updates and patches.
DirectX 9.0b
Asus P5a
K6 2+ 660MHz, 600MHz gives 106.8fps
512Mb ram
Geforce 3 Ti200
Aureal vortex 2

On what graphics settings did you test quake3?

LubieCipy wrote on 2021-11-10, 07:06:

On what graphics settings did you test quake3?

Super low 800x600, 1024x768 is about 1-2fps slower

Does anyone know witch driver is fastest for the geforce FX 5950 ultra card?

During my early testing with early performance config files I got by oure luck 93fps in demo four in quake3 with my 5950 ultra. I just cant remember witch driver it was.
The thing is that I got less frames per second with all the other cards I tried. So I was thinking If I could find the correct driver combo again I probably could get further than 100 frames per second in demo four in Quake 3.

I know that a FX 5950 ultra bottlenecks the cpu quite hard, so it totally got me by surprise that the FX 5950 performed like that.

Well i remember to get more Frames per Second with a GeForce 3 Ti then with any FX Card in a K6 xD
A Radeon Card did perform slower at Minimum FPS then a Rage 128 with SG-RAM 😒
Also Rage Fury Maxx did not benefit from Second GPU in a K6 😁

I Need to try a gf3 card then

Quake2 demo Ultra tweaked LOW SPEC COMPUTERS

Its ugly as F__k, but it runs faster. 😀

I thought that when running these benchmarks, to make it fair that we were supposed to run the default settings on the benchmark?