Friday, December 17, 1999

Q3A Tweaks -- 9:57 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

In my never-ceasing quest to tweak Quake III Arena for a few more frames-per-second, I ran across this Q3A tune-up guide on nV news. Some of the information I knew already, namely that setting cg_gibs 0 and turning off dynamic lights give a substantial speed increase. What I didn't know is the dramatic effect turning marks on walls off and setting cg_draw3dicons 0 would have.

Here's my setup. I start with the "high quality" settings, then I set geometric detail to "high," filtering to "bilinear," turn off dynamic lights, and set cg_gibs 0. I ran some timedemos of demo001 with those settings (#1), then with marks on walls off (#2), then with both marks on walls off and cg_draw3dicons 0 (#3). Here are the results:

#1: 41.7 fps, #2: 46.6 fps, #3: 48.0 fps.

Not too shabby if you ask me. Try these settings out for yourself!

News for 12/17/1999

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