Tell me how ETQW is running on your system please

[mellowd]

Well, i actually got this system preconfigured, not that much of a hardware connaiseur.
The card IS a 8600 GS, as identified by vista's hardware manager. I did manage to find some specs of the card, basically it's a crippled GT version intended only for low end pc's. Dunno why they put that kind of crap in with my other hardware....

As for ETQW i tweaked the setting a bit, and it's running much better now, but i was hoping for the full expereince.... so, WHO WANTS TO SUGGEST A NEW GRAPHICS CARD!

If you are going to get a new one, I can't recommend the 8800GT enough. It's faster and cheaper than the8800GTS's and almost hits 8800GTX speed in a few games.

[badrunner]

Agree with the other posters. An 8600 just isn't a good gamers card, the 8800 flies with etqw though.

[road_rage]

I just wanted to pipe in as I have almost identical config,
Intel Dual Core 6550
2GB RAM
Super cheap and super lame GeForce 8600 GT- 256M
Dell-WFP2407
1920x1080

I have been running into an issue of being booted out of the game which seems to be due to my screensaver not being aware(Doh), but beyond that I have been running on "high" for graphic detail playing only computer so far and everything has been very acceptable.

Does anyone know if there is a switch for etqw which will add the frame rate avg. to my logs ?

--RR

glxinfo for those interested...

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.14.19

[JurB]

Your can show fps by dropping down the console (ctrl-alt-~) then typing "com_showFPS 1"

With some extra tweaks (see posted link) i can now get it to run acceptable in Vista, better then with the same tweaks in Gutsy.
I'm a bit dissapointed by the Nvidia drivers in linux, i always tought nvidia was the way to go in linux... but things like Compiz ran much smoother with my 6 year old ATI + ati restricted drivers then with this card and nvidia restricted drivers. Do you guys use the newest nvidia drivers? Is there a big performance boost compared to the old (via restricted drivers manager) ones? Tried to install them via Envy, but that hosed X.

A lot of people seem to have troubles running ETQW smoothly on high-end machines, so maybe i'll wait to get the 8800 GT. There seem to be a lot of different GT's made by different manufacturers, wich one is yours, mellowd?

road-rage: Do you use Compiz? If so you need to enable the "undirect fullscreen windows" option, detailed instructions can be found in one of the ETQW posts.

Tnx for all replies

[mellowd]

A lot of people seem to have troubles running ETQW smoothly on high-end machines, so maybe i'll wait to get the 8800 GT. There seem to be a lot of different GT's made by different manufacturers, wich one is yours, mellowd?

I've got an Inno3d 880GT. Stock. It's the first time ever that I bought a card on release. I just couldn't handle my 8600GTS. I mamaned to sell my 8600GTS for 80% of the price I paid for it because it only 2 months old so I was happy.

They can be quite difficult to find now. The one I bought has already gone up my £25!

You will be more than happy with any stock model. Don't bother going with special editions because you usually end up paying 30% more for 5% extra. The 8800GT is simply fast enough as it is.

[JurB]

Wich driver? and how did you install it?
Do you have ETQW btw? At what settings can you play? MAX?

lots of q's

Tnx for the fast reply!

[mellowd]

In linux I installed the latest beta driver but to be honest I play all my games in Windows still.

I run Bioshock at MAX quality 1680 X 1050 flawlessly. I also can run the demo of UT3 at the same. I'm getting the full game soon so will be able to test at max quality but I don't see a problem.

Have a look here for a ETQW benchmark:

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=703&p=4

[cameran]

my setup:

intel core2duo
2gb ram
nvidia 7950GT

i can run ETQW at 1280x1024 with all settings maxed and get incredible performance - i'm guessing 50-60fps at all times. the performance is no different than when i used to play the beta in windows.

awesome game!

anyone want to start a [LINUX] clan?

cameran

[JurB]

Hmmm... the 8800 GT seems impossible to get atm
and the GTX costs 800 EUR

Why no [UBUNTU] clan?

[mellowd]

Hmmm... the 8800 GT seems impossible to get atm
and the GTX costs 800 EUR

Why no [UBUNTU] clan?

I'd wait for it. They really are that good.