Why isn't an older game like Quake 3 Arena as smooth as butter on this new high powered video card?

Factual Questions
1

I like to play the Quake Arena 3 botsfor relaxation. I don’t judge you, don’t judge me. The Game is 16 years old and plays fine on older video cards. So, anyway there was a Newegg sale happening and I got a relatively powerful (for me) video card described below last month.

for my Windows 10 Intel i3 based desktop. So I’m thinking the game should be butter smooth and amazing on this thing. It’s anything but, it’s worse than graphics card on a motherboard chip old school Pentium units. It plays but I swear you can almost see the frames go by as the action changes.

Are modern video cards and OS’s simply not all that compatible with old school games?

2

Probably a driver compatibility problem. I’m pretty sure Quake 3 used OpenGL, so you may need to add a wrapper to tell the system what to do with it.

3

Also, wasn’t Quake III released back in the Win 95/98 days? Those were DOS-based OSes, so I suspect that if you’re running it on Win 10, you’re probably running it in compatibility mode, and that probably needs some settings tweaking.

4

I won’t judge you because I still play Duke Nukem 3D on my i5 PC. It has a Windows port so no problem. Simple controls and hundreds of maps is why I still play it.

And fun. :cool:

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I did that and it was a big help. Thanks!