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« Reply #20 on: 2003-12-07, 01:55 »
Trust whoever you like, but I play LOTS better when I have a smooth 125 fps visual and over 100 hz. Any lower on either and I start missing rails etc. The mind picks up so much more than you are aware of (unless you've got some kind of handicap Slipgate - Wink) - and it's only logical that you use this, provided your input hardware is precise enough.
The latter is also something that I'm very nitpickish about. I'm just a sucker for being able to put the blame where it REALLY should be at -> my faults :]
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« Reply #21 on: 2003-12-07, 07:15 »
Actually that's very true, Tab.  I've determined that the higher FPS sends client snapshots to the server at a more precise interval.  The smaller the time between updates, the more precisely the movement physics are calculated.The 70-80 FPS "sweet spot" range is a sort of harmonic to this where the numbers round just right in order to replicate the +125fps behavior.  It's a bloody shame the client can't update the game logic independently of the rendering passes, but the renderer slows EVERYTHING down when FPS drops.
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« Reply #22 on: 2003-12-07, 13:04 »
Well, we knew quake3 was sloppily coded - this is just a reassurance that we're not wrong about that ;]
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« Reply #23 on: 2003-12-08, 05:53 »
I run Q3 at 640 x 480 with a monitor refresh rate of 60 hz.  Ph33r  Sipgate - Evil

My average FPS usually is around 80 or 90.  It begins to drop on levels with a lot of shader effects or whenever there are a lot of dynamic lighting effects in my view.  Then I usually run around 40 or 50.
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« Reply #24 on: 2003-12-08, 07:44 »
I feel your pain buddy. I started q3 on a celeron 566 with ONBOARD video. I ran640x480, everything off, picmip 5, and got 12FPS if I looked at a wall. Ten FPS if it was a corner. That extra triangle hurt. Slipgate - Wink
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« Reply #25 on: 2003-12-08, 08:43 »
What's funny is Twilight plays like that deliberately.  Slipgate - Laugh
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« Reply #26 on: 2003-12-08, 08:46 »
Oh I know. And so did about 75% of the people at quakecon.
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« Reply #27 on: 2003-12-08, 14:27 »
/me points to his pentium 200mx with tnt2 32mb pci  where he played q3 on AND generations arena and even sof 2
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« Reply #28 on: 2003-12-08, 17:38 »
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I feel your pain buddy. I started q3 on a celeron 566 with ONBOARD video. I ran640x480, everything off, picmip 5, and got 12FPS if I looked at a wall. Ten FPS if it was a corner. That extra triangle hurt. Slipgate - Wink
Gahah!  I've only had this working graphics card for about 2 years.  Before I used to play Q3 on a 350 mhz with a shitty ATI Rage onboard.  I ran 8 fps on average.  Slipgate - Smile  You have no idea how badly Generations ran on that thing. Hell I couldn't even really run OpenGL.  I had to download those GL drivers for Win98.  lol  I settled for SOG mostly instead though the sprites from Wolf's flame-thrower would absolutely kill my machine.
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« Reply #29 on: 2003-12-08, 19:40 »
k6-2 450, 128 MB ram, and a RIVA-128! so HAH!
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« Reply #30 on: 2003-12-08, 22:29 »
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k6-2 450, 128 MB ram, and a RIVA-128! so HAH!
I know I am   :offtopic but...

Pfft.  I still have you topped I'm pretty sure.  The ATI Rage only had 8 MB onboard ram and my system had only 64 MB RAM.  I did later update it to 192 though.  The only guy that could have topped me was GK, but he had a 32 MB video card
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« Reply #31 on: 2003-12-09, 14:21 »
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pentium  300 mhz with a mortrox 8mb card in it .

every time I started q3a up after the first time he couldnt play of the movies , so I had to delete al the movies out of my quake 3 folder Slipgate - Tongue

after that I bought that nvidea tnt2 card . but I put it in my pc instead of that of my dad , thats why I was back on a pentium 200 mmx .


later we bought a geforce 2 for that pentium 300 . o then i had
pentium 200 mmx with tnt2
pentium 300 with geforce2




beat that  Sipgate - Evil
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« Reply #32 on: 2003-12-09, 22:34 »
Mortrox.. sounds like a brand Sauron would sell to orkish gamers...
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« Reply #33 on: 2003-12-10, 06:57 »
Or something NeOrc is trying to shut down.  Slipgate - Laugh
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