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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in
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> "Bill M." <wbmcl@removexcite.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Matthew Vaughan" <matt-no-spam-109@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in
>> news:YQFbf.2432$te3.39244@typhoon.sonic.net:
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>>> "Bill M." <wbmcl@removexcite.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>> Would editing the vsync still be positive and if so how? I don't
>>>> see it in the control panel/display settings. The Sony can do 75Hz
>>>> at 1024 and if the FPS cranks, I'd drop the resolution down to
>>>> that, providing I can set the vsync to make that work.
>>>
>>> Editing the vsync setting would certainly change your *timedemo*
>>> results in a positive way, but should have no visible or other
>>> effect on what you actually experience during gameplay.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, it certainly did have a positive effect. The FPS cranked from a
>> limited 60 fps to well over 200 fps. And indeed, the game does not
>> suffer in any way visually.
>>
>> Bill M.
> 
> There are SOME games that may appear to have tearing of the textures,
> often with black lines in the torn looking edges.  Enabling VSync will
> help that issue.  However, the problem might turn up with my system
> and not yours with the same game.   I'm glad your system is bullish
> enough to do Quake in high res without vsync :)
> BTW-  GLQuake cannot do 32 bit color depth in any resolution higher
> than 800x600.  But the game itself is 16 bit depth so just play it
> with 1280x1024-16 like I do.  Looks pretty good, especially since the
> day when I was running at 320x240-16 and tweaking like crazy to get a
> couple more frames per second!   Who back then would have though we'd
> be playing it maxed out in hundreds of frames per second?! LOL!
> McG. 
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> 
> 

Indeed. It's also ironic that I upgraded my first 386SX-16 to a 486DX-33 
because of DOOM, then I upgraded to a Pentium 100 because of Quake. Now I 
have a system a dozen times more powerful - and yet I've gone back to the 
two games that hardly need this kind of power.

Bill M.