i recently purchased a evga geforce 8600gt and installed/run latest drivers. i was able to play halo maxed out, doom 3 1024x768 resolution with 8 aa/af high quality 60+ fps. but then i downloaded quake 4 demo and when i ran it i got this message:
Winsock Initialized
Found interface: {7D8E1CA0-8E6F-4EC4-AC75-9EBA082B5CAB} Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection - 192.168.0.109/255.255.255.0
Sys_InitNetworking: adding loopback interface
engine using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
--------- Initializing File System ----------
Loaded pk4 CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/game000.pk4 with checksum 0x133ee477
Loaded pk4 CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/game100.pk4 with checksum 0x1235af71
Loaded pk4 CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/pak001.pk4 with checksum 0x4a4195c2
Loaded pk4 CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/zpak_english.pk4 with checksum 0xab62ab5e
Current search path:
CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base
CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/zpak_english.pk4 (779 files)
CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/pak001.pk4 (7663 files)
CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/game100.pk4 (2 files)
CProgram Files/id Software/Quake 4 Demo/q4base/game000.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
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Running in restricted demo mode.
------------ Initializing Decls -------------
Loading guides.... 59 loaded
218ms to load 1064k of material
29ms to load 43k of skin
163ms to load 719k of sound
2ms to load 1k of materialType
269ms to load 2078k of lipSync
56ms to load 105k of playback
1116ms to load 1666k of effect
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-------- Initializing renderSystem ----------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
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Found default language English with VO
641 strings read from strings/english_code.lang
1669 strings read from strings/english_guis.lang
5631 strings read from strings/english_lips.lang
6100 strings read from strings/english_maps.lang
Couldn't open journal files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec editor.cfg
couldn't exec Quake4Config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
-------- Initializing Sound System ----------
sound system initialized.
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--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 10 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
thanks, i finished the problem. the problem was my crappy vista, i had to allow it permission so i ran as admin and clicked allow (lol). thanks a lot though, seeing as you took time out of your time to help me out. here are some of my benchies, not as worse as people say:
Halo 1024x768 high everything vysnc maxed out (couldn't find fps b/c it has no console)
Doom 3 1024x768 8 a/af high quality 63 (game locks on 63 fps)
Quake 4 1024x768 8 a/af high quality low 43's high 63's (once agian 60 fps lock)
sorry i don't have any other resolutions, but my screen is small and only supports 1024 and barley 1200x1024. i tried 16 anti alias and that's where the video card falls down to about 23 fps. other than that the 8600gt is a decent video card with 1024 resolution and 8 anti aliasing no higher.
also this is GT and not gts. i got this video card at www.circuitcity.com for 119 dollars after mail in rebate. beats tigerdirects and neweggs 160~ price. very pleased with the card. cheers
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