ASUS A8JM and old school quake

Hello,

I received my ASUS A8JM about a week ago and I love it, it's awesome. Just wondering if someone could help me try to work out the issue that I am having. Well, I still enjoy playing Quake (yes, old school Quake 1) and I tried to play it on my ASUS A8JM and I performed a 'timedemo demo2' to check how many FPS I am getting. Now on my older but still very capable work notebook (Dell Latitude D610 - 1.7ghz, 512mb RAM, ATI RX300 vid card 64Mb) I get about 589fps, but when running the same test on my more powerful A8JM (core duo 1.83ghz, 2Gb RAM, 7600 go 512Mb vid card) I got about 30fps. Now I am sure that there must be one person out there who still fires up Quake [1]. One of my buddies said that it may be vsync setting which I tried turning off today, by going into nvidia laptop display then changed the global driver to turn off vsync. I have also tried it on. But still no joy. I am also running 85.98 of laptopvideo2go driver but this is an old game so it's not like some features aren't yet in the drivers.

Thanks In Advance

 

my first thought is that you're using software 3d acceleration instead of taking advantage of your graphics hardware. any settings like that in quake?

playing daggerfall in dosbox, i ran into that issue. monkeying with teh config file made everything good.

 

Quake was originally written to use 3Dfx's Glide 3D language. To get good performance on modern systems, you need a version of Quake modified to use OpenGL calls instead: http://www.fileaholic.com/idgames.d/idstuff/unsup/ (get the 1114 version)

 

thanks for all your replies, however I am using glquake .98 alpha (latest) and still no workie!

any other workarounds?

Thanks