Bizzare Quake 4 issue

skidude

skidude

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With my new stuff, when I try and play Quake 4 on ultra settings, the game takes a LONG time to load, and then when it finishes loading it will lag for a minute or two, then go into the game screen and lag for a little while longer. When I do play, I lag every few steps, even though Fraps reports my FPS at over 60.... wtf is wrong? For now I am playing the game on high and it runs fine.:confused:
 
did you try to put everything on low settings? I mean I'm playing quake 4 right now. I have no problem with it. I'm almost done with the game.
 
No I can play it on high settings, but when I turn it to ultra it really screws up my system... very strange. O well, there really isnt much difference between high and ultra.
 
I think it might be an engine issue with card since my card just came out a few weeks ago, and Redrider773 has an X1800XT and he can run it on ultra just fine.
 
skidude said:
I think it might be an engine issue with card since my card just came out a few weeks ago, and Redrider773 has an X1800XT and he can run it on ultra just fine.
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You could be right. If so, ATI will probably release a driver update in the next few weeks that'll fix the problem. Speaking of which, are you using the latest drivers?
 
Im using the Omega Drivers right now since the ones that shipped with the card are REALLY messed up and when I tried to update them it gave me a strange error. Could I just download catalyst from the ATI website and use that instead of the drivers that came with my card? I assume I can so I will try it.
 
skidude said:
Could I just download catalyst from the ATI website and use that instead of the drivers that came with my card? I assume I can so I will try it.
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You can, and you should.

Latest is 6.1 IIRC.
 
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