win.2000 pro--frames per second in gamming is slow

[skipholiday]

I have 2 almost indentical systems .One is running win 2000 pro,the other is 98se.Wih the same graphics cards.The 98 machine gets 3 times the frame rate as the the one running 2000.I am running quake 3 arena.Could anyone tell me how to get the frame rate up on the 2000 machine.I am almost positive this is something to do with the O.S..
Thank you
Skipholiday

 

[Eguy]

Hi Skipholiday;

First thing, Are you using W2K drivers for the video card?
Is the video card on th MS W2K Hardware Compatability List?

Ed Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
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[skipholiday]

Yes I am using the 2000 drivers.And the card is on the compatibility list.This is second card that had the low fps.Could it be that 2000 does not allocate enough resources.I am clueless.Guessing at this point.
Thank you
Skipholiday

 

[Eguy]

What kind of setup are you running?

MOBO, CPU, Graphics card. AGP or PCI graphics?

Also, do you have the latest DirectX (I believe its ver. 8.1)?

Ed Please let me know if the suggestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
Sometimes you're the windshield... Sometimes you're the bug.

 

[Guest_imported]

Try getting the latest updates for your vid. card. That has seemed to solve all conflicts for me.

 

[Jocsta]

Does this only happen with Quake3? If so it'll probably be down to the opengl driver for your card. Quake3 only uses the directdraw part of directx, all the clever stuff is done with opengl. Dont know what to suggest for this, but at least you know what you are looking for.

If all games are slow, the obvious checklists are -
are your bios settings correct - cpu clock, agp speed etc...
are you using the latest drivers...
are there any processes hoging resources - check in task manager...
try running dxdiag and see if that is ok...

can't think of anything else right now...

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[K1W169]

Just for curiosity sake how many fps are you getting and how many are you going for thanx

 

[skipholiday]

I have a soyo dragon lite board,western digital hd, nanya 512 ddr memory,gainward geforce 4 4200 128 meg video card,on 1 machine 98se I get 90+ fps and on the other 2000 machine I get 35 + fps ..big difference.
I have the 8.1 direct x installed on both machine's and the same video drivers.
Thanx for all the responces.