Re: timedemo slow on modern hardware

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From: Ken
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:42

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Try checking your monitor refresh rate for the resolution you are 
playing the game in.  I have to set mine for each resolution I play in.

rowan wrote:
> Hello,
>     I'm getting back into Q2 and I've got it all working but I'm getting
> rather low results from a simple "demomap1" timedemo. At 1024*768 I get 97
> FPS; on a XP2600+ with a Radeon 9800PRO :-\
> 1600*1200 gets about 55 FPS.
> 
> Q3 reports over double that on a "four" timedemo; it's not a vsync or
> cl_maxfps issue but I can't think of anything else to try.. Any ideas?
> 

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