Quake 4 Performance

JimmyG · Oct 13, 2006

I just acquired Quake 4 and am running it on my game machine. See my sig. I haven't gamed for quite some time and am amazed that this game is so sluggish on my game rig. With all of the eye candy turned off and resolution a 640x480 it is still jerky.

What is it about my rig that is causing this. I suspect the video card, but don't know for sure.

Alexhk · Oct 13, 2006

Yeah your poor radeon 9600 is having trouble. I believe when my rig was a 6600GT and a XP-M quake 4 ran pretty well and it was beautiful on my XP-M and AIW X800-XT. My XP-M was overclocked to 2.4GHz but that isn't going to amount to much of a difference. New video card and you'll be all set.

hkgonra · Oct 13, 2006

I am not sure which system you are using but according to the chart of graphics cards at Tom's Hardware the card in your main rig is better than the card in your " gamer " rig.
No offense but both of them are pretty old and were bottom of the line for their generation even when they were new. I would think that upgrading even to a 9800pro would get the game running ok for you. Those can be head for about $50.

David · Oct 13, 2006

I ran Q4 at 800x600 with low detail and reasonable performance on a dual XP2100 machine with 1GB RAM and a Ti4200. It seemed to cope....

Checked for background tasks?

JimmyG · Oct 13, 2006

When I am in windows, I'm only using 17% of the physical memory. Everything else seem fast compared to my XP2400 rig. The FX5500 video card is indead old, but I just didn't expect it to be that slow. Is there anything in the game that I can tweak that could speed up the frame rate?

stratcatprowlin · Oct 13, 2006

With a FX5500 your gonna need a tweak guide like this one.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Quake4_1.html

JimmyG · Oct 14, 2006

I loaded the latest NVIDIA drivers and that made the game playable at 800x600. I guess I still need a new video card. Can anyone suggest a card in $150 range that would improve my game. It has to be an AGP 8x card to run on my A8V.

stratcatprowlin · Oct 14, 2006

Look for a Nvidia 7600GS.That will do you just fine.
I have one myself and it plays Quake 4 beuitifully.

Dan0512 · Oct 14, 2006

hkgonra said:
I am not sure which system you are using but according to the chart of graphics cards at Tom's Hardware the card in your main rig is better than the card in your " gamer " rig.
No offense but both of them are pretty old and were bottom of the line for their generation even when they were new. I would think that upgrading even to a 9800pro would get the game running ok for you. Those can be head for about $50.

Not bottom line, actually mainstream.

dan

hkgonra · Oct 14, 2006

Dan0512 said:
Not bottom line, actually mainstream.

dan

Most 5500's have a passive heatsink, doesn't that make them equivelant to the previous generation MX series cards ? Which would be bottom line series.

Dan0512 · Oct 14, 2006

hkgonra said:
Most 5500's have a passive heatsink, doesn't that make them equivelant to the previous generation MX series cards ? Which would be bottom line series.

Bottom line of the FX series is the FX5200. AFAIK the FX5500 is clocked much higher.

dan

stratcatprowlin · Oct 14, 2006

The fx5500 is clocked a whole 20 mhz more on the core than the fx5200.Now that we have that cleared up,as far as it having a passive heatsink means nothing(although it is really not much faster than a mx) because there are some 7600 series cards with them and I would hardly compare them with the mx series.

rainless · Oct 14, 2006

stratcatprowlin said:
The fx5500 is clocked a whole 20 mhz more on the core than the fx5200.Now that we have that cleared up,as far as it having a passive heatsink means nothing(although it is really not much faster than a mx) because there are some 7600 series cards with them and I would hardly compare them with the mx series.

I had the FX5200 and it was a WONDERFUL card. It was actually much faster than the 6200TC I temporarily replaced it with. The thing to be careful about is whether you have a whole card, or one of the half-card value solutions that have the same name but don't deliver the same performance at all. I think my FX5200U would've run Quake 4 just fine. As would my 9600pro. I think the 7600GS (I have one of these, but in PCI-e) would be an excellent card to pair with Quake 4. I'm loving mine. (And it is indeed passive.)

soulfly1448 · Oct 14, 2006

7950GX2: 1600x1200 with ALL options on ultra-high FTW!

stratcatprowlin · Oct 14, 2006

soulfly1448 said:
7950GX2: 1600x1200 with ALL options on ultra-high FTW!

Find one for $150 and I'll buy one too.

Spoudazo · Oct 14, 2006

No, here's how you play Quake 4

On a 52" HDTV.

Well, actually I don't play much on the HDTV, as for some weird reason, this graphics card doesn't like playing on HDTVs, though my 7900gtx and 7800gtx always did fine.

It was playing fine at 1280x720, but when I went to 1920x1080, it crashed.

Sorry for the bad picture quality, my camera is a 1.2mp camera, hehehe.

Goateh · Oct 15, 2006

Definately the video card there man.

I run Q4 on 1024 and its good as

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