HI,I have Inno3d geforce gtx 260, amd 64x2 4600+,abit nf-m2s, 3GB of ram,19 crt and ez is giving my hard time to decent play on this pc. (nvidia 186.18, win xp sp3, nod 4.0). I don't have constant 308 fps with cl_maxfps 308.And I have some screen freezes. Why is that?
On this spec I shuld have 308 fps even on highest eye-candy cfg. (i use 1024x768@100Hz@32Bit,qrp textures,custom weapons,44Khz sound)

try disabling one core

Do what?



The reality is NVIDIA fucked up their drivers starting from 185-series and OpenGL + some older games. What you need to do is:

1) Make profile for ezquake-gl.exe
2) Set "threaded optimization" to "off"
3) Do not change any other setting, leave them to defaults

Problem solved.

Doing what Renzo said fixed my framedrops, should work for you also

Set "threaded optimization" to "off"

I also have to do this on my GTX 285 to get stable fps.

I reinstalled XP on my new WD Black a month or so ago, and decided to go for 182.50 drivers since they don't have this particular bug. Even if I play QW occasionally (once a month or so), this bug seems to affect some other games too. Not to mention there are other bugs in 185-series drivers (or later), so I decided to use these 182.50 for a while and see if NVIDIA fixes some of this crap. (gtx285 here too)

BTW, threaded optimization is supposed to increase your fps. For me it's +10% (with 182.50 or earlier drivers) performance in ezQuake using timedemos. Not that it matters with gtx285 but still

thx I will check that

Again big thanks , now it is smooth like babe but

i made a fps-comparison Threaded Optimization ON Vs OFF. with Nvidia 182.50 thou

please upload that conback somewhere fAkkFejz

That's not a comparison of any kind, since timerefresh has nothing to do with real world performance. Use timedemo instead, and you'll get your real results.

This is how you do it:


(using 24bit textures, resolution 1920*1200*32)

Threaded optimization enabled is 10,8228% faster than it disabled on this particular demo.

I tried uploading this conback to Quakeworld GFX but everytime it gets deleted by the Admin!

PM me if you still need it.

otherwise i just uploaded it here
http://uppladdning.com/uploads/1247665430939.png