If you have any more questions on this topic, I would post them on the tech support forums at You'll probably get a really good answer within an hour.

The improvements include bandwidth-friendly 'Tight' encoding, file transfers in the Windows version, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more. TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. Quake does NOT do any kind of sanity check so be careful not to set your refresh past the capabilities of your monitor. Quake Live Demo Tools is a small set of tools for managing, editing and viewing Quake Live and Quake 3 Arena demos. At the end of the benchmark, Quake III will show the results in the console. In the timedemo process, Quake III plays back a demo recording at the highest speed possible (rendering as many frames per second as possible). try typingĪt the console and then hitting tab to 'fill in' the rest of the command. A timedemo is a benchmark to test the speed of your current computer system. It might be something like /r_displayrefresh or something. The command for changing this is *I believe* Just something to keep in mind if you get errors running a demo.Īs far as your display refresh.my memory is a bit faded on this one, but when quake starts up it will kick your monitor to 60hz by default. Keep in mind there are about a bajillion versions of quake 3 out there (1.17, 1.29, 1.30 etc) and many demos are incompatible with some versions.

To run a traditional benchmark do these commandsĪfter the demo is run by the second command, bring down the console to see the results of the run. reconnect: re-initialize the connection to the last server you were connected to: record: records a demo (record mydemo. I think this is the best way to check your fps in quake as it allows you to see the 'low spots' in your fps when things get busy. While event journalling is a feature designed to help the developers debug their code, theres another mechanism, this time created for the players to. quit arena and quit Quake 3 Arena and return to your OSThanx for flying: rcon: start a remote console to a server. This will give you a continuous fps display. The quick method is to type '/cg_drawfps 1' at the console.

Quake 3 time demo