Re: Quake IV Performance Question(s)

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From: Erik Max Francis
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:51

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Martin Welch wrote:

> That document is the key document I used to tune performance. They 
> reckon image_useCache determines memory rather than swapfile.
> 
> I'm convinced that memory is my problem - I'll drop another 512Mb stick 
> in to see if it makes any difference.

The symptoms you describe are almost always associated with swapping, 
which means that you don't have quite enough memory.  As areas are being 
paged in, there's disk activity, which kills the framerate.  Once 
everything has stabilized, it runs smoothly.

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