Quake 3 Performance

[rhilibryn]

p4 duo e8400 3ghz
asus p5q mobo
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
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?

 

[San Pedro]

Do your other games run fine?

 

[rhilibryn]

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.

 

[rennervision]

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.