Baker, Which PQ?

[rev]

Baker,

I just upgraded my OS to win7, and i'm having a few issues with framerate vs stability. it seems net_sys_highpriority or net_syshighpriority no longer works in pq 4.51 which is what i'm currently using.

Is there a PQ version that is more win7 friendly. I don't need 800fps, i'd be happy with 200 fps and non-choppy (sometimes so choppy i get icon'd) gameplay. Any suggestions? I've tried using V-sync, but the actual game play itself is so off from what i'm used to, i'm looking at v-sync as a last resort.

Thanks,

-Rev

[Baker]

Don't have Win 7 so no ideas there at this time ... I need to get ahold of a Win 7 laptop for a few days to do testing.

However, I think the cvar you are looking for is sys_highpriority. It works on Vista. Hopefully it works on Win 7. I'm not sure if it will solve your problems, but sometimes it makes things work better for me.

[This cvar can give ProQuake higher CPU priority, should also be available in Engine X.

sys_highpriority 0 = normal
sys_highpriority 1 = high
sys_highpriority -1 = low

Generally not messing with it is the best choice. Setting high priority can sometimes interfere with the mouse polling.]

[Phenom]

Baker 4 Prez.

[rev]

K... thanks anyway. As of right now, i've had to alter basically every video setting there is... oh well, i'll eventually find something that works.

[Baker]

Yeah that isn't a lot of help, I know

[Patton]

Dumb and stating the obvious

Did you d/l latest driver for your vid card?

Ok bash me now and call me capt. obvious.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I can use d3dpro451 nicely! Windows 7 even, no compatibility settings required.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

K... thanks anyway. As of right now, i've had to alter basically every video setting there is... oh well, i'll eventually find something that works.

Have you tried Omega drivers, or even Guru3d drivers

[rev]

yeah, i had omega drivers to begin with and NOTHING was working with those, so i upgraded to win7 drivers... what i've found has gotten me closest back to normal is dx8pro cmd line -mem 512 -zone 8192 and turning the maxfps down to like 300. I play with a 800x600 (4:3) resolution, increasing my resolution to 1280x1024 in game while lowering my fps helped too, that's using regular proquake.

i'm gonna give d3d a try now.

[Baker]

-mem 512 -zone 8192

-mem 512 is like 4 times as much memory as ProQuake could ever need to run anything. -mem 128 would be more reasonable, but if you have 2 GB RAM or so I guess it doesn't really matter --- but ProQuake won't be using anything above 128 mem for anything.

The zone param is unnecessary. ProQuake allocates a full 1 MB for aliases and such.

dx8pro is more reliable and more flexible than d3dpro, d3dpro is ever so slightly faster but with a lot less features than dx8pro. dx8pro won't crash on you, d3dpro can crash on some maps.

/Just providing general information.

[R00k]

Baker,

I just upgraded my OS to win7, and i'm having a few issues with framerate vs stability. it seems net_sys_highpriority or net_syshighpriority no longer works in pq 4.51 which is what i'm currently using.

Is there a PQ version that is more win7 friendly. I don't need 800fps, i'd be happy with 200 fps and non-choppy (sometimes so choppy i get icon'd) gameplay. Any suggestions? I've tried using V-sync, but the actual game play itself is so off from what i'm used to, i'm looking at v-sync as a last resort.

Thanks,

-Rev

Did you try this fix --> http://quakeone.com/68476-post12.html ??

This made my game smooth when using Windows 7.

[rev]

thanks rook, i think that did the trick, though i won't really know until a lot of people are on one server....