WinXP/video/quake3

[Mr White]

Why oh why are my games looking like crap on windows XP? Using det drivers 4,geforce 2 mx400. I tried my voodoo 3 b4 and it was the same as my geforce2. The quality is the main problem here,the colors are dull and messed up and no gamma setting can fix it. On winME everything looks fine so im lost here. Anyone out there ever seen this before? Is it my crappy computer wont work good with XP?

p2-400 ,256sdram

[Darcrist]

XP is automatically setup to drop graphics performance to give you the best possible-most compatible application performance. Thus, running a superfast graphics card and a slower processor can result in some instances in a massive drop inquality. I had this happen on XP running on a P-2 366 with 384 MB RAM and an ATI Raedon(64mb). Switched up to a better processor, P3-500 and it went away.

There's a way to turn off application performance tuning, but I don't remeber where it is. Check Computer Management on the Admin Tools menu. The setting is accesible there, but I can't remember where. I'd look it up, but XP's no longer installed, as I found it too much of a pain.

[Mr White]

I believe what you said makes sense to me. Im doing a fresh install as i had a voodoo card on it b4 so it could have been screwing my gforce up. I hope that fixes it. As for the slow system i think your right im upgrading this week anyway so thats good. The tweak for apps ,yes ive seen that and you can make it perform better for apps or something else...Ill try turning that off. So your saying your quality improved as a result of faster cpu,mobo? thats good news to me then,thank you.

[monty]

Most of my games run as fast in XP as they did in 98 or ME. I was surprised to find that the XP driver for Nvidia cards works pretty well, though there's no way to tweak with it. Of course, I installed the latest Nvidia driver. I have tried the following games: Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, Elite Force, Soldier of Fortune, and Kingpin. I have yet to experience problems with any of those. My current gaming system is an Athlon 1.1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GeForce DDR, SoundBlaster Live! Value. I'll be upgrading soon, as I've had the same video card for almost two years. I'm looking into the new Radeon 8500; it looks pretty promising, and I've always preferred the graphics quality of the Radeon cards over the GeForce cards.