Quake 3 graphics problems

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24. April 2008 - 8:18
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Hello, my friend has radeon 9500. Is q3 playable with this card? We've tried many different settings, but still get such glitches you can see in screenshot. We use newest ATI drivers.

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24. April 2008 - 8:22
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try to change some setting in catalyst drivers

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24. April 2008 - 8:26
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CZE|BEAZT wrote:

try to change some setting in catalyst drivers

How that supposed to help?

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24. April 2008 - 8:38
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i have no idea what exactly is bad because iam nvidia user. i dont know catalyst drivers

but it looks like software based problem, not hardware problem

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24. April 2008 - 8:41
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Does it happen in all games or just quake?

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24. April 2008 - 8:58
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It happens only in Quake. It might be OpenGL problem. Any of you use Radeon 9500?

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24. April 2008 - 9:23
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It could be a single option from drivers affecting this or just driver version (try older drivers).I wouldnt exclude your q3 cfg as well,maybe a graphics cvar is the problem,u just have to find out which one.

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24. April 2008 - 9:23
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try to set everything to default on ati catalysator...
and if that doesnt help

use some omega drivers or so..which are good as well imo!

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24. April 2008 - 12:31
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basically, the card if more then fast enough for q3.
if it just happens in opengl games, im going for driver problem.

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5. May 2008 - 7:33
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rUnThEoN?! wrote:

basically, the card if more then fast enough for q3.
if it just happens in opengl games, im going for driver problem.

Agree 100%. I did have ati 9200se it is muuuuuch weaker (64bits vs 128..etc) card and it gived me 125fps almost all time.

Ati card ? Catalyst w.o. control center (i d o n o t install that C R A P). It iis much better conjunction: catalyst + ray adams ati tray tool !!).BTW "Installing a new driver is only recommended if you are experiencing issues with your ATI product, including..." newest, driver for Ati (Ur kidding..)? Start trying from old time tested ones for that card; and maybe try WHQL certified - still something. Em cards cooling is ok?

OK my oldfave drivers source/info/any guru3d, may try starting with this one maybe will lucky (; gl

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5. May 2008 - 12:12
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i guess that it is not a driver problem,i think its a cfg problem.....
and i guess that u didnt do the cfg by urself?u try to play with a cfg made by friends?
try to play with defaultsettings.and if this works it was a cfgproblem.
(sry for my english..its not so good Crying )
but pls come here again and tell us,what problem it was and how u fixed it.

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