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Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
You either sabotaged your Windows installation, didn't update your Windows video card drivers, or "tweaked" linux to the max while not tweaking windows at all, because Windows XP beats the shit out of Linux in quake 3, and Windows 98 has about the same performance as Linux (+/- 1 fps) I have done many benchmarks on several different computers to prove this, which I won't bother posting since you think I'm a spreader of lies anyway.
But please, if you think Linux runs quake 3 so fast, do an honest comparision. Update drivers for BOTH operating systems, (not just for Linux) and run the timedemo for quake 3 on both OSes using the exact same parameters, and post the results here. You'll be surprised how much faster XP is than Linux.
if you would have searched the boards, you would have find my post about the linux version of return to castle wolfenstein outperforming
the windows version (xp) by far (this was with the same NVIDIA driver core on both OS'es, both with my GF3 heavily OC'ed, there was a difference of about 30fps, note: rtcw uses the quake 3 engine)
win98 should perform a bit better actually (you can disable irq steering there at least) but I didn't test that because the shitty excuse for an OS can't handle my pc (1 gig ram)
