Nexuiz on Windows Vista?

[tp8806]

I just installed Nexuiz on my computer with Windows Vista and it is very slow. I get about 2 frames per second, the mouse skips around when i move it, and the sound is very clipped too. I tried running it in Windows XP compatability mode and it didnt work. Anyone have any tips?

[KadaverJack]

Sounds like there is no 3D acceleration at all. If you have am ATI graphics card, check if you have the latest drivers, until recently their vista drivers didn't support OpenGL (and don't use windows update to get graphic drivers, download them from ATI or nvidia, the driver M$ supplies most certainly don't support OpenGL).
If that doesn't help, try turning off that direct3d-3D-desktop-thingy (i forget how they called that ), that might cause some performance drop (even though i doubt it'll drop down to 2fps).

[divVerent]

Installing the nvidia driver did help when I tried...

but I still wonder why it is THAT slow without an OpenGL driver. Wasn't it in the news that Vista features some OpenGL 1.4 through Direct3D wrapper? Seems like one has to do something to enable it, as the OpenGL version reported to DP is _NOT_ 1.4 when it is that slow.

[Bnonn]

C'mon, it's Vista. Why are you playing an OpenGL open source game on a Direct3D closed source platform?

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[cyan]

C'mon, it's Vista. Why are you playing an OpenGL open source game on a Direct3D closed source platform?

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What my friend said. openGL is bad on vista.

[C.Brutail]

No bashing on him, please. This is not the right place... (/me mourns).
Like the others said, Vista is not realy games-friendly, especially not OpenGL games (if you don't know, OpenGL is a 3D hardware interface, Microsoft uses its own proprietary hardware interface, Direct3D). Currently Vista don't realy support OpenGL, so OpenGL based games (like the whole Quake series) don't run well on Vista.
I'd suggest you to somehow create a new partition, install win xp on it,install the latest drivers for Ati for windows (at least WinXp has drivers) and run Nexuiz from there.

[divVerent]

I've tried it and can say: Nexuiz DOES run well on Vista (no big fps differences, maybe in the 5% range) when using the driver from nvidia.com. The only thing that really sucks is the included nvidia driver.

[tp8806]

haha, thanks for the help, and believe me, i dont know that much about vista to know whether or not to play OpenGL games . I will download the latest drivers for my dual 7600GT's and hope that helps.

[divVerent]

BTW, I tested on a Quadro FX 540, which isn't exactly the fastest card out there - but after execing low.cfg it's fine and the frame rates don't differ much between Vista, XP and Linux. I did not do benchmarks, however, I just looked at the fps counter, which usually varies between 40 and 100 in all three OSes.

However, I was disappointed of it being so slow without installing the official nvidia drivers - but maybe I have to enable the OpenGL 1.4-D3D-translator somehow. It certainly does not seem to be there by default. And after installing nvidia's driver, it's fast, and NOT using Microsoft's translator, but now I don't want to uninstall that driver to try to find out how to enable this translator.

[tp8806]

thanks for the help! I just finished installing it and tried it out and Nexuiz works perfect!