FPS Fluctuation

[nitro/adminofdeath]

Well i recently upgraded to windows7

i had to update my NVidia drivers and since then when i play quake i have FPS Fluctuation. It only happens when i pick up something(white flash) or when i get hurt(Red Flash). cl_polyblend i think it is. Anyways i cant take off the previous driver and i dont want to turn polyblend off.

My gfx card is Nvidia Geforce 9600GT

here is my settings in NVidia Control pannel

and the other half


Hope someone can help

King regards
NITRO

[Patton]

It was running fine before upgrading video driver?

[nitro/adminofdeath]

yep

[Baker]

You really need to state what client you are using. I do know this, if you use ProQuake 4 AND the -gamma command line parameter, it doesn't use hardware for those types of effects so it should be really fast.

But no other modern client has that kind of option, so if this is Qrack (or anything else really -- I only kept the ancient glquake gamma system option in ProQuake for performance) you are probably going to have turn something off if you can't play around in the NVidia control panel and find an answer.

[nitro/adminofdeath]

Yes i guess.
Well im using proquake 4 anyways only have a -game proquake in cmd line which is only a gfx pallete.

I guess ill have to turn something off then thanks for help

[Baker]

Add -gamma 0.65 to your command line (play with 0.65 +/- if you want), it should solve your issue entirely.

[nitro/adminofdeath]

ah thanks alot baker that did it

Finally i can quake again

[foq]

I had the same issue when I tried to play Quake on Windows 7, and this resolved it. Also, Darkplaces seems to sperratically run like shite in Windows 7. I would delete the config.cfg file to set everything to default and it would run fine, then I would immediately exit without changing any settings, and it would run like shite again.

[Baker]

ah thanks alot baker that did it

Finally i can quake again

Not sure why hardware brightness flashes slow down some clients so badly on certain hardware, but it does.