Playing Quake 3 online: How important is the video card????

[Santilli]

Been trying to play quake 3 Arena. Kind of wondering if the Matrox P650 is just to slow to play online.???

David, are you in the house??

Thanks

gs

 

[blakerwry]

For the most part the vid card requirement should be the same as in single player mode.

The exception is when you may have a large number of players on the screen at once.

I believe that a TNT2m64/vanta is about the minimum you'd really want to play quake 3 on. With the current graphics cards you may as well just by a geforce4 mx or a radeon 9x00

 

[Santilli]

Well, Quake 3 Arena, the ones I've played, always have a ton of players.
I can do better if I turn all the stuff off, and go to 640 or something, but it's so ugly, it's no fun

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[Santilli]

Update:
Radeon 800XL helps a LOT :excl:

How do you do the fps test using the quake 3 demO?

Thanks

all