Quake 4 and slow performance

Hi, I was just planning on writing a similar post.
I've got an Athlon XP 2500+ with 1gb RAM and a ATI Radeon 9800. I
could play Half Life2, Doom3, Fear, everything with excellent
performance.
Quake IV however, is the first game on my system which runs slow as
hell. Auto-detecting the settings gives me 640x480 with low detail and
this looks bad. And even then the frame-rate could be better. When I
push the settings to 800x600 with medium details it runs as fast as a
turtle. I'm gonna test once more with minimum services in the
background, tweak the settings a little and if things don't change,
I'll remove it from my machine.

Kris



Seeker schreef:

I just downloaded and installed the quake4 demo for windows. My
system is an Athlon XP 2000 with 512 MB RAM and a 6600GT. When I ask
the game to automatically set the video settings for my hardware it
selects low quality, which has a 640x480 resolution among else.

The game runs with a pretty slow performance when there are enemies
on screen.

Will upgrading my RAM or CPU enable me to play this game and enjoy it
or should I pay an arm and a leg?

Walter Mitty wrote:
I've got an Athlon XP 2500+ with 1gb RAM and a ATI Radeon 9800. I
could play Half Life2, Doom3, Fear, everything with excellent
performance.
Quake IV however, is the first game on my system which runs slow as
hell.

I had the same except with an Athlon XP 3200+ until recently. I only
played the Quake IV demo but it seemed to run as well as Doom III had
done on the same machine, i.e. 1024x768 medium-ish detail. Got to be
driver related.

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Walter Mitty wrote:
I've got an Athlon XP 2500+ with 1gb RAM and a ATI Radeon 9800. I
could play Half Life2, Doom3, Fear, everything with excellent
performance.
Quake IV however, is the first game on my system which runs slow as
hell.

I had the same except with an Athlon XP 3200+ until recently. I only
played the Quake IV demo but it seemed to run as well as Doom III had done
on the same machine, i.e. 1024x768 medium-ish detail. Got to be driver
related.

I have an Athlon XP 2400+ 1GB ram Nvidia FX5900, I can play both Doom3 and
Quake4 @ 1024X768 at around 40-50fps, Quake4 exhibits some slow down in the
larger areas if theres alot going on but is still reasonably playable on
medium settings

Quake IV didn't look too good on my 9800 Pro either. I got an X850XT though
and the game looks noticeably better at higher rez, AA and AF. I only have a
Mobile Barton at 2550 and 2GB RAM.

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Hi, I was just planning on writing a similar post.
I've got an Athlon XP 2500+ with 1gb RAM and a ATI Radeon 9800. I
could play Half Life2, Doom3, Fear, everything with excellent
performance.
Quake IV however, is the first game on my system which runs slow as
hell. Auto-detecting the settings gives me 640x480 with low detail and
this looks bad. And even then the frame-rate could be better. When I
push the settings to 800x600 with medium details it runs as fast as a
turtle. I'm gonna test once more with minimum services in the
background, tweak the settings a little and if things don't change,
I'll remove it from my machine.

Kris



Seeker schreef:

I just downloaded and installed the quake4 demo for windows. My
system is an Athlon XP 2000 with 512 MB RAM and a 6600GT. When I ask
the game to automatically set the video settings for my hardware it
selects low quality, which has a 640x480 resolution among else.

The game runs with a pretty slow performance when there are enemies
on screen.

Will upgrading my RAM or CPU enable me to play this game and enjoy it
or should I pay an arm and a leg?