slow frame rates in Quake 4

[winnie]

Hi,

I would be very grateful if anyone can give me a clue as to why I'm only getting around 16 to 20 frames per second in quake 4?

I have a dell dimension 9150 with a 2.8ghz duel core processor, 1gb ram, 250gb hdd and a 256mb ATI Radeon x600.

I'm running quake 4 on a resolution of 640/800 in medium quality.

thanks.

 

[Federelli]

Make sure you've got Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering disabled.
Then make sure you've got Catalyst 5.12 drivers.
Finally, download the 1.0.5 Beta Patch, it will improve performance because you've got a dual core processor --> http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/quake4/quake4_1_0_5_beta_patch.exe.html

Type r_smp 1 in Quake 4's console, so that you get the performance increase .

 

[mastronaut]

Slow Frames

I would do a disk clean up and a defrag first. Then go to Tweakguides.com
They have a guide for Q4 that can help you, they also have a guide on ATI
cards! Lots of excellent advice. Good Luck!

 

[winnie]

Thanks for the advice guys, i've now managed to up my frame rate to over 30 which is acceptable, if anyone else has any other tips I would very interested!

 

[Federelli]

That's as much performance as you can gain with your PC, unless you've got Antialiasing or Anisotropic Filtering enabled, which you should disable for extra performance.

 

[dady393]

answer:shake the monitor!

Shake the monitor, it will increase fps with about 10-15, after this try and kick the monitor, this adds about an increase of 30-70 fps. If your still not getting enough, throw the monitor through the window!