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Quake III Arena

OpenGL

A harder OpenGL workload: multitexture, larger textures and 32-bit colour. It runs on Velocity9x’s modern targets, the HD 4600 and the Evergreen, Cayman and GCN Radeons, at up to 1600x1200.

Videos

Velocity9x 0.34 and Intel HD 4600

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Velocity9x 0.34 and Intel HD 4600

31 Oct 2026 · 3:47 · Velocity9x 0.34

A quick demo of the improvements in Velocity9x 0.34 on the Intel HD Graphics 4600, including Quake III Arena through the OpenGL driver at 1024x768 in 32-bit colour.

Tested hardware

Card	Driver / OS	API	Result	Version
Intel HD Graphics 4600	Velocity9x Windows 98 SE	OpenGL	56.9 fps, demo001	0.36.0
AMD Radeon HD 5450	Velocity9x Windows 98 SE	OpenGL	63.6 fps, demo001	0.32.0
AMD Radeon HD 5770	Velocity9x Windows 98 SE	OpenGL	49.3 fps at 1024x768x32, 50.6 at 1280x1024x32; runs up to 1600x1200	0.34.0 build
AMD Radeon HD 7470	Velocity9x Windows 98 SE	OpenGL	34.6 fps, demo001	0.34.0 build
AMD Radeon HD 7660D	Velocity9x Windows 98 SE	OpenGL	33.4 fps at 1280x1024x32	0.35.0 build
AMD Radeon R7E	Velocity9x Windows 98 SE	OpenGL	21.3 fps, demo001; windowed 18.7 fps	0.33.0

Performance results

OpenGL · timedemo demo001fps

AMD Radeon HD 5450
640x480 · v0.32.0
63.6 fps
Test setup and source
Resolution
640x480
Driver version
0.32.0
Not recorded: machine / cpu, cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Core i5-4570 · 640x480 · v0.36.0
56.9 fps
Test setup and source
Machine / CPU
Core i5-4570
Resolution
640x480
Driver version
0.36.0
Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates
AMD Radeon HD 5770
Core 2 Duo E7500 · 1280x1024x32 · v0.34.0 build
50.6 fps
Test setup and source
Machine / CPU
Core 2 Duo E7500
Resolution
1280x1024
Colour depth
32 bpp
Driver version
0.34.0 build
Not recorded: cpu speed, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates
AMD Radeon HD 5770
Core 2 Duo E7500 · 1024x768x32 · v0.34.0 build
49.3 fps
Test setup and source
Machine / CPU
Core 2 Duo E7500
Resolution
1024x768
Colour depth
32 bpp
Driver version
0.34.0 build
Not recorded: cpu speed, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates
AMD Radeon HD 7470
A10-5700 · 640x480 · v0.34.0 build
34.6 fps
Test setup and source
Machine / CPU
A10-5700
Resolution
640x480
Driver version
0.34.0 build
Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates
AMD Radeon HD 7660D
A10-5700 · 1280x1024x32 · v0.35.0 build
33.4 fps
Test setup and source
Machine / CPU
A10-5700
Resolution
1280x1024
Colour depth
32 bpp
Driver version
0.35.0 build
Not recorded: cpu speed, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates
AMD Radeon R7E
AMD GX-420GI · 640x480 · v0.33.0
21.3 fps
Test setup and source
Machine / CPU
AMD GX-420GI
Resolution
640x480
Driver version
0.33.0
Not recorded: cpu speed, colour depth, display mode, game / benchmark version, settings, test date.
Source: Velocity9x README: tested frame rates

Not a like-for-like comparison: machines and driver versions differ.

Known issues

On the S3 ViRGE, the Quake 3 demo is missing much of its picture: its non-square textures and additive and multiplicative blends cannot be expressed by the S3D engine, and the driver refuses rather than draws them wrong.

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