So I just heard about this project "Improved Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Engine" which aims to upgrade to the Quake3e engine, and apply performance fixes.

Seems to still have a few bugs but has anyone tried it? I'm curious to hear how the performance is, or any other differences.

https://github.com/etfdevs/ETe

How can you have performance issues on a 22 year old game?

it highly depends on your hardware, try it and see

22 year old tech design? very easily

Unlike most modern games, ET does not have multithreading, meaning it can only use 1 CPU core at all times.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

My rig is pretty old, but capable of much better performance than what I get with ET. E.g. CS2 maintains a far higher frame rate.


Not wrong, just not the full story.
1. Single threaded - 100%, spot on.
2. Original renderer does not use VBO, it uses compiled vertice arrays. This means the CPU does a lot more work. In Q3/RTCW, there is 50% increase in frame rate between the original engine and ioQ3/ioRTCW. In ET, it’s even higher for ETe because the ET renderer was modified to add another dimension to the shaders. This is the piece you were missing.

In my opinion pure ET w/ 2.60b patch (update) and ETPro 3.2.6 mod is essence of this game success and reason why so many players break their sleep on it. Competitive gaming! Clans vs clans. I look very suspicious at any divination from above.

It would be cool if ping could be dropped somehow. The only frequently populated servers are in the northern hemisphere and 300 ping sucksssss