Min settings to run Q3 good
hey my friend is having this problem
when usally alot of ppl conect to the sever ping starts to get bad.
also when they press TAB Q3 ping goes to 999 for a while
basically when he does to much with q3 it cant handle it then ping starts to go bad..
he is currently using 800 mhz cpu ,GeForce 2 ti
if anyone has commands out there to put all graphics settings to lowest it may be of some help
thx..
tell him to check his background processes too. good chance that something's hogging the resources and causing quake to hang and stuff.
especially since his processors fairly slow, if hes running windows a serious look at tweaking would probly pay off a lot. try www.tweakhound.com (if i remember right)
I used to play on a 700MHZ with a Geforce 3 Ti. I had tweaked my config a lot to have good framerate. You can also use nvHardPage program to get the most performances of your card I can send him my config if he wants.
seta r_primitives "1"
seta r_finish "0"
seta r_dlightBacks "0"
seta r_dynamiclight "0"
seta r_drawSun "0"
seta r_fastsky "1"
seta r_flares "0"
seta r_smp "0"
seta r_vertexLight "1"
seta r_simpleMipMaps "1"
seta r_depthbits "24"
seta r_stencilbits "8"
seta r_stereo "0"
seta r_colorbits "16"
seta r_texturebits "16"
seta r_detailtextures "0"
seta r_roundImagesDown "1"
seta r_picmip "16"
seta cg_noProjectileTrail "1"
seta cg_marks "0"
seta cg_gibs "0"
seta cg_lightningImpact "0"
seta cg_damageKick "0"
seta cg_damageDraw "0"
seta cg_smoothClients "1"
seta cg_simpleItems "1"
seta cg_shadows "0"
seta cg_predictItems "1"
seta cg_drawStatus "0"
seta cg_drawSnapshot "0"
seta cg_drawRewards "0"
seta cg_drawIcons "0"
seta cg_drawFriend "0"
seta cg_drawFPS "0"
seta cg_drawCrosshairNames "0"
seta cg_drawAttacker "0"
seta cg_drawAmmoWarning "0"
seta cg_draw3dIcons "0"
seta cg_draw2D "1" // let that be on 1 better otherwise its weird
seta xp_noSnow "1"
seta xp_drawStats "0"
seta xp_drawSpeed "0"
seta xp_drawPing "0"
seta xp_drawNames "0"
seta snaps "40"
seta com_maxfps "xxx" // try arround here u can put cg_drawfps to 1 for seeing how much fps u got ... i guess it would be arround 80 for you.
seta cl_maxpackets "100" // depends on your net ... 100 - 120 for me cause i got 6mbit.
Guess he has to try a bit arround with this settings here ... its different on each chip ... but how it is now it should be low
seta r_ext_texture_env_add "1"
seta r_ext_compiled_vertex_array "1"
seta r_ext_multitexture "0"
seta r_ext_gamma_control "1"
seta r_ext_compressed_textures "0"
seta r_allowExtensions "1"
Hope it could helped a bit ... all in all this should be very low settings ... but ultra low isnt = very good anytime ... in some kinds its better to get medium settings for good performance.
seta com_maxfps "xxx" // try arround here u can put cg_drawfps to 1 for seeing how much fps u got ... i guess it would be arround 80 for you.
ihmo better set optimal value for q3 - com_maxfps 125, with good setting he will get 125 fps on his pc
seta cl_maxpackets "100" // depends on your net ... 100 - 120 for me cause i got 6mbit.
maxpackets is command for set how many packets u will send to server, so dn speed isnt important here. On normal adsl with 128 kbits upload u can use cl_maxpackets 125.
most importand command what base forgot is: r_mode - its for set resotion in q3. recommendet is r_mode 3 - 640x480
wrote:seta cl_maxpackets "100" // depends on your net ... 100 - 120 for me cause i got 6mbit.maxpackets is command for set how many packets u will send to server, so dn speed isnt important here. On normal adsl with 128 kbits upload u can use cl_maxpackets 125.
Dunno what u have heared out this line ... it isnt meaned like yey i got 600kb/s down i could take 125fps omg ... here in Germany our internet is called that way 6mbit charge - 2mbit charge - 100mbit charge ... so it wasnt a way to show everyone that i got enough download, just wanted to show rage the relations of my sets (which run pretty well here).
most importand command what base forgot is: r_mode - its for set resotion in q3. recommendet is r_mode 3 - 640x480
Its a normal menue graphics setting so i think it isnt mentionable cause its a friend of zack and he knows that things iam very sure
Second thing cause i didnt wrote anything about it is that iam not 100% sure about the different numbers ... i know 8 = 1280 x 1024 but i wasnt sure about the other, thx for completing my post