quake 3 performance issues?

Post by **themexicanbob** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:31 am

ok i havent palyed q3 for years

i recently found my old cd of it and feeling kinda nostalgic i loaded it up

and omg it runs like a heap of *$!&!?* i mean worse than it did many years ago on my old voodoo 2 card and (possibly) k62 processor

i have an AMD 64 with a gig of DDR ram and a 256 meg geforce6000 (its a 6000 somthign i cant remember the exact model of the top of my head) running windows xp and it actually runs it worse than my old pc (ok this may not strictly be true as it was a mighty long time ago but its certainly runnign shockingly poor and often unplayable)

real crazy thing is both doom 3 and quake 4 (and half life 2, far cry and any other fps you could care to name) run absolutely incredibly they look stunning and the graphics fly

so whats going on? does quake 3 have an issue with amd64's? windows xp? geforce6000? i really dont get it ever other program i have run on my pc has run flawlessly what with quake3?

the performance also seems to get even worse when palying over either the net (my ping is usually>100) or over a lan

any help would be gratefully appreciated :icon31:

Post by **busetibi** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:10 pm

did you upgrade the game to point release 1.32?

Post by **themexicanbob** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:13 pm

yes i did

i also made sure i was runnign the latest drivers for my graphics card

Post by **busetibi** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:32 pm

punkbuster issue?
i more or less have the same set up,
amd 64 3000+ , 1 gig ram, 256 meg GeForce 6800GT, OS xp pro and q3 flys with all detail maxed out

Post by **themexicanbob** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:34 pm

possibly a punkbuster issue

its de-activated by default isnt it? i dont think i switched it on

but i could be wrong

Post by **busetibi** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:40 pm

yes,default is de-activated
sry, its been that long since i dealt with PB,maybe check out the q3faq?
http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13902
second topic down

Post by **themexicanbob** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:42 pm

thanks i will check that and do a search for anyone having punkbuster issues

thanks for the help

Post by **busetibi** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:05 pm

its worth while getting the pbweb exec, as pb can and will drag any system down while it updates in a server

Post by **Survivor** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:46 pm

busetibi wrote:its worth while getting the pbweb exec, as pb can and will drag any system down while it updates in a server

PBweb is dead. They replaced it with a setup program that updates all the games using pb at once.

Post by **themexicanbob** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:01 am

quick follow up

just to say i got it sorted

i messed round trying to update punkbuster but nothing seemed to help

in the end (out of sheer desperation) i uninstalled and re-installed quake 3 updated it to the latest point release and its running perfect

dont know how or why but im not complaining

Post by **busetibi** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:34 am

glad you got it sorted.
its almost 2 years since i played Q3, guess im out of the loop regarding pb
@ Survivor