After a lot o time

Adun_Toridas · **Joined:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:46 am **Posts:** 4

After lotsa time, i finally managed to get Quake 4 on my PC. However, as it's quite old, i would like to know if it's going to run or not, and if it does run what should the configurations be for a superb performance.

My PC.

PIV 2.26
RAM 2GB
256 Video card Nvidia FX5500

thank you in advance.

simulation · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:38 am

Adun_Toridas wrote:

After lotsa time, i finally managed to get Quake 4 on my PC. However, as it's quite old, i would like to know if it's going to run or not, and if it does run what should the configurations be for a superb performance.

Not to be pedantic, but if you have Q4 on your PC how about running it? That will tell you if it will run or not.

BloodRayne · **Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:02 pm

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256 Video card Nvidia FX5500

That might be pushing it. Perhaps it'll run ok on low or med quality, not sure.
Like sim said, just run it.

gb_remake · **Joined:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:40 am **Posts:** 23

It will run, I had that card for a while. On 640x480 and low settings, and it will lag, but run it will. Same for Prey.

Doom 3 will run acceptably (can play, won't look good). ETQW won't run well at all on that, though.

I suggest getting an AGP 6-series geforce on ebay (6600 preferably). idtech 4 games will run fine on that.

LDAsh · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 1:35 pm

Here are some cvars that should help get it running better, you can then tweak to your liking instead of just using "low quality" in the menu settings:-

Code:

image_downSize "1"
image_downSizeBump "1"
image_downSizeBumpLimit "512"
image_downSizeLimit "512"
image_downSizeSpecular "1"
image_downSizeSpecularLimit "512"
image_filter "GL_LINEAR"
image_ignoreHighQuality "1"
image_anisotropy "0"
image_roundDown "1"
image_useAllFormats "1"
image_useCache "1"
image_useCompression "2"
image_useNormalCompression "2"
image_useNormalCompressionLoadDDSForPal "1"
image_useOfflineCompression "1"
r_multiSamples "0"
r_swapinterval "0"

You use these in a CFG file when running the game. You may need to use "vid_restart" in the console when applying them for the first time. There's a few more you can use to get even better performance out of the game(s).
Good luck.

Adun_Toridas · **Joined:** Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:46 am **Posts:** 4

well, well, well... it seems that without shadows and reflexions the game is quite playable in 800x600 and high quality (don't u ask me why, i mean it got some tweaks in big spaces and overilluminated corners, but it's normal in other situations).

Howerver, in low quality (obviously) FPS do increment a lot.

P.D. And doom3 runs perfectly in High Quality

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