I had similar problems when I started playing Q3 on my laptop (which is two months old and is what I'm still playing on). What I suggest is for you to go into your cfg and increase your max FPS to about 300.

The reason for this is because when you have it maxed out at 125, the average you'll have it about 40-80 FPS, (because it drops down a lot) which can greatly hinder your playing Q3.

Maxing it out at 300 will have your average around 110-140. Try that and see if it helps...

if u ben have a bit knowledge about PC and the q3 then u dont be writing this nonsense, he do not have shity vga his vga is dam enaf to run two copies of q3 in the same moment.

if u set com_maxfpts to 300 u ben have biger averange fps bycose if u stand two mm to the wall and look at wall u ben have yors 300fps, but if u turn around and look at fighting guys yors fps get down to 80, then if u set the com_maxfps to 1000 meybe looking on wall u ben have 600fps, and if u ben walking on maps and looking all the time to wall u ben have averange around 500fps, but if u again turn around and look at the same fighting guys yors fps again get down to the same value >80<

u can set the limit of fps iven 1000000 but in action u ben still fel the bad feling of low fps

u cant incrise min fps in game by seting high limit on fps...

now its clear to u ?

and if u r so experenced player tell me why pro gamers usues 120 or 125 fps limit ? and they decrese video setings to hold stable 125fps ? do u know what means strafejumping ?

pls stop writing this crap....

sry dude, sure, for u it are the best settings.

HQ telled u only, what is behind the fps-story, and what he said is fact. Q3 dont give u any avagere fps, q3 give u that fps what it can in relation with ur settings, ur hardware. If u tell ur q3 - maxfps 125, than ur maximum fps is 125, if it goes under 125, than ur settings are to hard or ur machine is just to weak, but it have nothing to do with something average or stuff like that.

Again, maybe u have figured out good settings for urself and ur laptop, but the story u bring up with it, and what u tellin about the meaning of maxfps is totaly crap.

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Increasing it to 300 helped up it from dropping it down into the 40-30's to about 100-120.

man o man u dont lisen me at all, this is imposible, that why is a bulshit an that is a fact, if am hurt u with mine words, sciusme, but u r teling false about how it works, and u r trying make a fool, u cant breake psyhic lore in this game

it is so hard to understand ?

Backing to topic, the guy with problem, using yors sugestion can get olny worse efect, with com_maxfps set more that 250 u ben have an interupts in game, and if now his fps droping lower that 125 if he set it to 300, that only slow his movement more that is slowing curently.
That is why i am crytic about it, and he still dont say about what res he using, what driver, what video stetings.

meybe he just enable vsync in game
meybe he using AA6 and AN16 witch 1600x1200
meybe he use r_railSegmentLengt 0/1

eh can try delete q3config.cfg file from e+ and base3 folder

e+ mod needs a bit more power from vga that a osp or promode, bycose e+ uses some other video methotds