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I noticed fps acting like it was on drugs on pb=1

Haha . I think that I might of found a way to fix the problem. I was tweaking my config to get the best visuals, and i found "cl_punkbuster x", I turned it to 1, and thats when the low fps started happening. I went back into my config and changed it back to 0, connected to a 2!S server to play 1v1 with a friend and I couldnt get back on because PB was off. I left the game and turned PB on in the multiplayer menu instead of doing it through my config, and than i reconnected. I then played 2 or 3 games with 125fps and it didnt go down lower than 90.

My guess is that it might have something to do with enabling PB in your config instead of in the ingame menu. I'm not sure if this will work for anyone else, because i kinda killed my config and crashed quake because of it .

Another thing that helped was to leave PB off unless I was going to go to a PB server...thats what I did to help my lag long post xD

umm alias. it shouldnt take a rocket scientist to realize that using pb_cl_enable and turning pb on through the gui does exactly the same thing.

its pretty obvious this isnt pb related cos then EVERYBODY should be getting it. and i for one am not.

I dont use the enable one, I used cl_punkbuster

I have no clue what it could be anymore

first time ive ever heard of q3 sound being choppy. in any case choppiness in sound and low fps are extremely unlikely to be caused by the same problem.