I don't get it... I can't run Quake 4 on highest settings?

[bruce9241]

I have a e5200 dual core pentium with 4 gigs of ram and a Geforce 9500GT 1gig video card.

It's not a world class gaming system, but it's way more than efficien to play a two year old game.

I can run quake 4 flawlessly on 1024x768 resolution at ultra high settings, but when I above that resolution with anti aliasing on it starts to lag like shit.

Is it due to my system or my monitor? My monitor is pretty crappy I think. It has a refresh rate of 60hz. Could that be the reason why the game is lagging or is it my system?

I'm just a bit disappointed that my system can't run a two year old game at highest setting. I can run games like farcry 2 in medium to low settings, crysis in medium setting and almost any recent games in lower settings.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I have a e5200 dual core pentium with 4 gigs of ram and a Geforce 9500GT 1gig video card.

It's not a world class gaming system, but it's way more than efficien to play a two year old game.

I can run quake 4 flawlessly on 1024x768 resolution at ultra high settings, but when I above that resolution with anti aliasing on it starts to lag like shit.

Is it due to my system or my monitor? My monitor is pretty crappy I think. It has a refresh rate of 60hz. Could that be the reason why the game is lagging or is it my system?

I'm just a bit disappointed that my system can't run a two year old game at highest setting. I can run games like farcry 2 in medium to low settings, crysis in medium setting and almost any recent games in lower settings.

"There's a good game in Quake 4, but it's buried under several layers of highly disappointing graphical performance issues."
-Gamespot

Either the game is glitchy or your gpu has issues running it at high resolutions+AA. Make sure you have the lastest driver from Nvidia. What resolution are you running it at? It should run better than Far Cry 2 and Crysis regardless though.

If you're really serious about PC gaming, get a better graphics card with GDDR5 and at least 1 gig of VRAM.

 

[bruce9241]

I'm currently running quake 4 on ultra high settings 1024x768. If i Try to run like 1200x??? then it starts lagging.

I just don't understand why I can't run this at top setting. Maybe gamespot is right about graphical performance issues. It's weird because when quake 4 was released, the nvidia geforce 9500gt wasn't even out yet. They never even heard of 1 gig of video ram back then...