Q3 can barely even run after converting to XP Pro

Post by **lollerskates** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:15 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?

Post by **4g3nt_Smith** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:27 pm

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

Post by **lollerskates** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:26 pm

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

Post by **Scourge** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:37 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

Post by **SoM** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:30 pm

that 133mhz memory bus isnt helping you either

Post by **Bacon** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:22 am

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 :icon26:

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:32 am

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.

Post by **Bacon** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:25 am

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.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:26 am

I really don't see how, but stranger things have happened.

One in a million I guess.

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:27 am

scourge34 wrote: One in a million I guess.

Sounds about right.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:28 am

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

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:33 am

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.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:44 am

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.