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what patch do i need to get more fps

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what patch do i need to get more fps

Post by vertical »

Hi guys, thx in advance

I have unreal gold and i do 44 fps and i have unreal225 and i do 69 fps.
and i have a nvidia quadro 64mb v. card

how can i get more fps on my games, i heard about patches and opengl or something, would this help?
thx in advance
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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The fastests driver is Glide on a 3DFX card. That's how Unreal was meant to be played. When you have an nVidia card, OpenGL with the OldUnreal OpenGl driver is probably the fastest, because nVidia has a very efficient OpenGL ICD. (For ATI D3D would probably be faster)

You should do some testing: dry D3D and OpenGL with comparable settings, disable vsync, and use the console command "timedemo 1" to benchmark.
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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tou'll have to patch to version 2.26 to get the driver to work. Or have version 2.24.
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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tou'll have to patch to version 2.26 to get the driver to work. Or have version 2.24.
Yes, indeed. I forgot to mention that. The OldUnreal OpenGL drivers are not for Unreal 225 but for Unreal 224v, 226 and Gold.
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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thx a bunch guys, ill do some testing, that was great and fast response :D
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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I do have a question about that Kerilk, you made several openGl patches, why didn't you made a patch for 225f ?

I asume that certainly the mapmakers (like me on a small scale, helping peep more out than building myself)would apreciate that, not to mention that certain mods seems to play better in 225f like CTF (menuwise that is).

Didn't you have the time to build one, or is technically not posible to make one?

I for sure would apreciate a patch for 225f :)

Though at the moment i would have little use for it, two days ago my 6 months old geforce 5900XT completely fried out, due to my powerunit, which is also fried and also causing damage to my MoBo :( :( :(

But in case i get a new one, heck yeah i would like to have a 225f OpenGl patch for sure.

Btw i am running your 226f patch and its great work Kerilk :)
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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As far as I know, the souce (programming) code of the 225f driver is not available and/or lost. This makes it impossible to program a new OpenGL driver for it.
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Re: what patch do i need to get more fps

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Sixpack_Shambler might have found a way to build a working GL patch for 2.25, but none of us have time to work on it right now, too busy working on something else, or tied by real life stuff.
Anyway this is not hopeless so maybe one day.

As for the patch I believe most of the credit need to go to Smirftsch.:)
Anyway, glad you like it.
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