SMP q3 + g400 + windows 2000 problem

[nufan]

I have a dual celeron (o/c to 550) system, with 128 megs of ram running windows 2000 professional. I have installed the latest G400 beta drivers for win2k, and quake 3. there is nothing else on the system. I have a diamond mx300 soundcard.

Problems are as follows:
* quake works about 1/4 the time; Sometimes the computer reboots, sometimes it hangs at the title screen
* When quake does work, it is slow! I have to turn smp on (r_smp 1 then vid_restart) in order for the mouse to behave properly, and i got a blazing 21.0 fps on demo001.dm3 with my dual 550's. I get about 42 fps in win98 with the same computer.

Any ideas? similar problems? Is the win2k driver the cause of the slowness and crashes?

thanks
nufan

[Gurm]

Yes, the current Win2k G400 driver has... "issues" with SMP. That's the likely root of your troubles.

- Gurm

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[nufan]

what about the NT4 drivers? do they work with SMP machines? i'd run linux if id could get around to releasing a ver of q3 that used smp on linux boxes..

nufan
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[nufan]

UPDATE:
i just installed NT4 and got similar results; 20.3 fps with r_smp set to 1, and 23.7 fps with r_smp set to 0.

Does this mean that the G400's NT drivers just plain suck all around? why is it _HALF_ as fast as in windows 98?

nufan