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Love the idea of Quake specific hardware. We're still a few years away from having 1khz oled (or faster) displays but i am sure they'll arrive by the time I won

Love the idea of Quake specific hardware. We're still a few years away from having 1khz oled (or faster) displays but i am sure they'll arrive by the time I won't be able to make use of them due to old age. But I want to see it. If course, all that goodness would be for nothing if we don't bake a proper version of the game. It's been a while but I think Quake server tickrate is likely to be on the low side. Quick searching confirms that. From https://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/articles/WallHug/framerate.htm https://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/articles/WallHug/fra... "In normal Quake, the server framerate is controlled by a console variable called sys_ticrate. This measures the amount of time each frame should last, and its default value is 0.05 (that is, twenty frames per second.) Most server administrators don't bother to change this." I say someone should take your idea, fix Quake 3 to run at 1khz on both the client and the server, then bake that into fpga. I would buy it

rbanffy 3y ago
> We're still a few years away from having 1khz oled (or faster) displays Fine. We can always go with 240 fps AR with 8K HDR 180-degree FoV instead.
hypercube33 3y ago
How would mods work? That's half the fun of quake...I suppose since quakevm itself is open source maybe run that on hardware and allow software extensions.
shrewduser 3y ago
surely we could already do 1khz displays with OLED, but i assumed that the bandwidth required to meet that wouldn't be available on any of todays display outputs.
- beebeepka 3y ago
  I think they're going to have to adjust a lot more than just. Let's see. Bandwidth seems to be the main problem but so far no one has shipped a 640x480bay 2khz or whatever. Who knows
- ErneX 3y ago
  True, LG is releasing OLED monitors this year that reach 480hz but at 1080p (240hz at 4K).
  - colejohnson66 3y ago
    Interesting that 4x the pixels only requires a halving of the refresh rate
    - Snow_Falls 3y ago
      Might be due to compression of frames as its sent over the cable (called digital stream compression iirc

rbanffy 3y ago

> We're still a few years away from having 1khz oled (or faster) displays Fine. We can always go with 240 fps AR with 8K HDR 180-degree FoV instead.

hypercube33 3y ago

How would mods work? That's half the fun of quake...I suppose since quakevm itself is open source maybe run that on hardware and allow software extensions.

shrewduser 3y ago

surely we could already do 1khz displays with OLED, but i assumed that the bandwidth required to meet that wouldn't be available on any of todays display outputs.

beebeepka 3y ago
I think they're going to have to adjust a lot more than just. Let's see. Bandwidth seems to be the main problem but so far no one has shipped a 640x480bay 2khz or whatever. Who knows
ErneX 3y ago
True, LG is releasing OLED monitors this year that reach 480hz but at 1080p (240hz at 4K).
- colejohnson66 3y ago
  Interesting that 4x the pixels only requires a halving of the refresh rate
  - Snow_Falls 3y ago
    Might be due to compression of frames as its sent over the cable (called digital stream compression iirc