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rhilibryn   11-19-2008 at 07:47:59 PM

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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit

Quake 3, at every resolution just about and just about any in-game setting, is really smooth sometimes and extremely choppy the majority of the time. Any ideas?

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San Pedro   11-19-2008 at 08:18:41 PM
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Do your other games run fine?

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rhilibryn   11-19-2008 at 08:29:35 PM
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San Pedro wrote :

Do your other games run fine?



Half Life 2 - Won't load (always stops responding), which is weird because countr-strike source loads and plays just fine.. just don't know about buying Left 4 Dead yet if Half-Life 2 won't load.

HL Counter-Strike 1.6 - 1600x1200 run perfectly (it has a lot of tearing but thats nothing but a monitor/vsync issue to resolve).

World of Warcraft WOTLK - 1600x1200 resolution on highest settings plays smooth.

Tomb Raider Underworld Demo - 1680X1050 Highest settings plays beautifully.


Message edited by rhilibryn on 11-19-2008 at 09:00:51 PM
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rennervision   11-19-2008 at 10:38:49 PM
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Any chance you use a screen saver? I disabled mine years ago when a couple of my games would run fine and then, after a few minutes, would start displaying a low framerate. It didn't happen with all my games, so it drove me crazy until I figured out what was causing it.

And I suppose you could try uninstalling HL2, manually deleting any files that remain for the game, then reinstall it.

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