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lollerskates
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Joined: 17 Mar 2005
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Posted: 03-17-2005 02:15 PM

I ran q3 for years on Win2k and got 100 fps easily, and after I do a clean install of XP Pro and install quake the fucking game can barely even run the opening movie. The game runs at like 2-3 fps and it takes about 30 seconds for the drop down menu to drop down after I hit the tilda key.

I installed the newest Detonators, Point Release, Motherboard Drivers, etc and it still does this.

I have a 1ghz AMD Athlon, ApolloKT133A motherboard, Geforce 2 Ultra 64 MB, blah blah blah. Help?

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4g3nt_Smith
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Posted: 03-17-2005 02:27 PM

RAM amount would be helpful. Did you ever think you computer couldn't run XP very well?

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lollerskates
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Posted: 03-18-2005 12:26 PM

384 MB, So, I didn't ever think my comptuer couldn't run XP very well.

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Scourge
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Posted: 03-18-2005 12:37 PM

I wouldn't recommend any less than 512 on XP. It'll run on 384, but I wouldn't expect to have very much running.

edit: I just turned everything off in startup for pretty clean boot, rebooted and checked my memory. I was already using 256 mb just to run windows. That doesn't leave a lot to play with. But honestly, it sounds like you may have other problems. End of my $.02

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SoM
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Posted: 03-18-2005 01:30 PM

that 133mhz memory bus isnt helping you either

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Bacon
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Posted: 03-18-2005 05:22 PM

scourge34 wrote:
I wouldn't recommend any less than 512 on XP. It'll run on 384, but I wouldn't expect to have very much running.

I got XP on a 533 Mhz/96 eg Ram/4 Gig HDD/4 Mb Video laptop that runs like a dream

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Posted: 03-18-2005 06:32 PM

What would happen if you tried to open Photoshop or anything that requires more than a Mb of ram though. I've booted it with 128, but that's about all I could do with it. Anything I tried to open would take forever and crash shortly after.

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Bacon
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Posted: 03-18-2005 08:25 PM

Everything ran fine =o

Had photoshop, and dreamweaver both running, coding my website, winamp open, no problems. I have no idea how, because it's kind of hard to believe it runs on this thing.

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Scourge
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Posted: 03-18-2005 08:26 PM

I really don't see how, but stranger things have happened. One in a million I guess.

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Tormentius
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Posted: 03-18-2005 08:27 PM

scourge34 wrote:
One in a million I guess.

Sounds about right.

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Kills On Site
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Posted: 03-18-2005 08:28 PM

I can run XP Pro well on a 300MHz, 256MB, 6 GB HDD laptop and it isnt the smoothest or fastest, but it works quite well

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Posted: 03-18-2005 08:33 PM

Kills On Site wrote:
I can run XP Pro well on a 300MHz, 256MB, 6 GB HDD laptop and it isnt the smoothest or fastest, but it works quite well

That doesn't surprise me as much. I ran it on a 600mhz machine smoothly. It had 512 also but I <i>could</i> run it on 128 or 256. Just like I said, it always was real unstable.

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Posted: 03-18-2005 08:44 PM

Kaziganthe wrote:
Yeah your RAM definetly isn't the problem, unless its bad or something. Reinstall q3 if you haven't already. GL

What I was thinking, that doesn't really act like it's running out of ram if it won't even start properly.

Have you tried going back to an older det version? I noticed sometimes the dets wouldn't agree with my GF2. Since then I've switched to ATI so I don't know how the new ones act.

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RAM amount would be helpful. Did you ever think you computer couldn't run XP very well?

384 MB, So, I didn't ever think my comptuer couldn't run XP very well.

that 133mhz memory bus isnt helping you either

scourge34 wrote:I wouldn't recommend any less than 512 on XP. It'll run on 384, but I wouldn't expect to have very much running. I got XP on a 533 Mhz/96 eg Ram/4 Gig HDD/4 Mb Video laptop that runs like a dream

What would happen if you tried to open Photoshop or anything that requires more than a Mb of ram though. I've booted it with 128, but that's about all I could do with it. Anything I tried to open would take forever and crash shortly after.

Everything ran fine =o Had photoshop, and dreamweaver both running, coding my website, winamp open, no problems. I have no idea how, because it's kind of hard to believe it runs on this thing.

I really don't see how, but stranger things have happened. One in a million I guess.

scourge34 wrote: One in a million I guess. Sounds about right.

I can run XP Pro well on a 300MHz, 256MB, 6 GB HDD laptop and it isnt the smoothest or fastest, but it works quite well

scourge34 wrote:
I wouldn't recommend any less than 512 on XP. It'll run on 384, but I wouldn't expect to have very much running.

I got XP on a 533 Mhz/96 eg Ram/4 Gig HDD/4 Mb Video laptop that runs like a dream

Everything ran fine =o

Had photoshop, and dreamweaver both running, coding my website, winamp open, no problems. I have no idea how, because it's kind of hard to believe it runs on this thing.

scourge34 wrote:
One in a million I guess.

Sounds about right.