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I recently installed quake 2, but I cannot get it to run smoothly. In vanilla Quake 2 I get exactly 83 FPS. Changing the resolution does not change the FPS I get. In Quake 2 XP I get around 24. If I lower the resolution from 4K to 1080p I get around 40. Turning all the visual stuff off adds about 5-10 FPS to that.

And I don't understand why. I am running it on a laptop with a 7700HQ, a Radeon 560 4GB graphics card and 16GB of ram.

Things that I tried so far:

- Updating my graphics card drivers, no effect
- Reinstalling Quake 2. I briefly got 250 FPS when I turned 8 bit textures off, but then when I installed Q2XP again hoping the problem had solved itself, I got the same low framerates in both XP and vanilla.
- tinkering with the config file. I tried adding set r_primitives "2", no effect.
- the frame rate cap is 600fps
- limiting the game to one CPU core. no effect
- running clockblocker to prevent my GPU from idling. no effect

The weird thing is Quake 3 Arena runs like a dream, in 4K with 16x AF and 8x MSAA.

So why $#%@$@#$# can't I get Q2 to do the same?

Can you guys help me out?
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Try yamagi?

https://www.yamagi.org/quake2/
Post edited October 31, 2019 by clarry
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clarry: Try yamagi?

https://www.yamagi.org/quake2/
Thanks for the tip. My FPS in Q2 vanilla is now 300, as it should be, but in Q2XP I'm still stuck at 24.
try yamagi.
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So you do not have troubles exactly with Quake 2?
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QWEEDDYZ: try yamagi.
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So you do not have troubles exactly with Quake 2?
I still have the same problem with Q2XP