Quake 3 Fastest

Demo001

Notes

The huge HSR gains are very deceptive. The higher the resolution, and the more aggressive the tiling, you start encountering serious in-game glitches, mostly flickering. You're able to see objects behind walls or below floors as those areas flicker. We tried to take screenshots, but both the in-game screenshot function and Hypersnap failed to work. We had to resort to the digital camera.

Look carefully

You can see the mega behind the portal

See the armor?

Rocket is up!

Frankly, the flickering makes the game unplayable, and we don't trust the framerate counter very much. We noticed that the framerate spikes up whenever the screen flickers. You can reduce the flickering by lowering the maxfps, but you'll still be playing with the occasional flicker if you set the maxfps too high.

It is nice to see that the 1.04.01 drivers do provide a small performance increase over the 1.03s at normal, non-HSR settings.