Quake 4 problem...

Macabre · 10 Mar 2007 at 21:39

I can't seem to run it on Ultra Quality maxed. Well I can run it but its horrible.

So if I enable everything and run it max then I hit new game or w.e, it will start loading, takes ages to load :/. Then once its loaded and you walk around its all laggy and horribly slow if you get what I mean. Sort of like lag when your playing online similar to that, but this is on singleplayer. Spec is in sig. I just find it strange as I can play any other game fine on max, Oblivion, Battlefield 2, F.E.A.R. etc.

jongeeone · 10 Mar 2007 at 21:40

perhaps that setup does not like the game? :S

try more virtual ram?

Cupra · 10 Mar 2007 at 21:52

have u set aa on the game or on your gpu?

snowdog · 10 Mar 2007 at 21:56

Quake 4? Should run A-ok on your spec, I have it on ultra quality and except for occasional stutter @ start of gaming when loading a next chamber (when doors open ) (due to it needing 512 mb vram), its smooth.

Do you have any junk running in the background, perhaps a virus, or anything that sues cpu power a lot?

Try disabling programs like anti virus perhaps...

MeatLoaf · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:00

Have you put the latest patch on for Quake 4 to enable dual core cpus?

Macabre · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:02

Try more virtual ram?
I set AA as 16x (Its application controled)
No viruses what so ever, but I do have an anti-virus running, not scanning just sitting idle AVG. I don't leave any programs running really, just Msn and Xfire.
I have the latest patche and enabled the dual core.

MeatLoaf · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:14

Id lower AA to something like 4x or 8x.

In ultra and high detail mode 8xAF is automatically enabled.

I run in ultra mode with 4xAA and get about 80.5FPS on the spec in my sig

With 8xAA I get 32.2 FPS

I didnt bench it with 16x AA as it wouldnt have been playable

( using doom 3 to bench it with the timedemo as its basically the same engine

Macabre · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:23

^Okay well right enough I lowered it down to 4x AA and in game its smooth no lag etc. However it still seems to take a while to load up levels etc.

Duke · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:26

What hard drive do you have?

snowdog · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:27

Macabre said:
However it still seems to take a while to load up levels etc.

Hdd, get 8 raptors in raid 0 and you'll never complain about loading times

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Macabre · 10 Mar 2007 at 22:41

Lol.

Harddrive is 250GB Western Digital.

V|per · 11 Mar 2007 at 00:48

There have been lots of reports, me included in this one, that when upping to ultra level detail, levels seem to take an age and a half to load, i think its just one of those things with the game, there doesn't appear to be a fix for it :|