Quake 3 Arena and G400 Max

[BreadFan]

I'm somewhat dissapointed in Quake 3 so far. I have to run it with 16 bit textures with 32 bit color and at 800x600 and the gameplay is STILL choppy (this is in single player mode). I am using the 5.30 drivers. I don't even see any of the movies. When I try to play a movie I get thrown back to the desktop with the bright colors. It has hard-locked on me twice in the hour or so I have played it. I have had ZERO problems with UT yet, what gives? I'm beginning to think iD shipped this too early. Any advice from anyone?

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BreadFan

Soyo SY-6BA+IV , Pentium III 500MHz, SoundBlaster Live Value, 10.2gb IBM hard drive, 350mb WD hard drive (used for swap file), 384mb PC100 RAM, Netgear FA310TX PCI Ethernet adapter and a freakin' awesome Matrox G400Max!!

[Dyre]

Turn of dual head first. Also get the newest drivers, they work fine. Also make sure you dont crank the texture detail up too high, i have mine set have way up the slider. any higher and it getts choppy as hell for some reason (AGP bandwidth i suspect). Try that.

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[namlook]

I'm dissapointed too. So far I can play a few minutes and I get kicked back to the desktop with bright colors like you. Ok at least I know this isn't specific to just my system. I noticed the choppiness with the texture slider set high as well. I have dual head turned off.

[BreadFan]

Dual-head is off, I just downloaded the latest drivers. I will uninstall 5.30 and install 5.41 to see if this corrects the issue. What's weird is that the tests and demo (the demo to some extent) worked fine. By the way, I finally got a movie to work, but it ran choppy as hell. I did this by disabling the turbogl driver. If I have to disable turbogl, that defeats my whole purpose in buying this card. Sometimes I wonder if I would have been better off getting a geforce.

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BreadFan

Soyo SY-6BA+IV , Pentium III 500MHz, SoundBlaster Live Value, 10.2gb IBM hard drive, 350mb WD hard drive (used for swap file), 384mb PC100 RAM, Netgear FA310TX PCI Ethernet adapter and a freakin' awesome Matrox G400Max!!




[This message has been edited by BreadFan (edited 04 December 1999).]

[BreadFan]

OK, I'm through with John Carmack and id software. If they are only going to make games with OpenGL , I will never buy another game from them. I will be takin' Quake 3 Arena back today and getting my money back. I don't know how some of you guys put up with trying to make a game work for weeks, I just got this game yesterday, it works like sh!t, and I for one am not putting up with it. Maybe if we all started doing this, dumba$$ companies like id would wait to put their games out when they are actually finished. Epic did a great job with UT, it's stable as hell!! I haven't had one issue with UT at all. I know some of you will tell me that UT is direct3d and Quake 3 is OpenGL, but that shouldn't even be an issue. If John Carmack wasn't such a d!ckhead, maybe we would have an OpenGL AND direct3d version of Quake 3, but noooooo, John Carmack is the Messiah, what he says goes and he says OpenGL. Well I for one am through with his sh!t. Quake 3 is going back (by the way, I did install the latest drivers for the Max, did a complete uninstall of the 5.30 drivers with the pd_uninstall utility, lowered my screen resolution to 640x480, ran in 16 bit color with the texture bar at the lowest setting and it still ran choppy as hell and hard-locked on me twice!!).

Oh and by the way, it won't run at all with the turbogl drivers for me. When I have turbogl enabled, it just kicks me back to the desktop with the bright colors.

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BreadFan

Soyo SY-6BA+IV , Pentium III 500MHz, SoundBlaster Live Value, 10.2gb IBM hard drive, 350mb WD hard drive (used for swap file), 384mb PC100 RAM, Netgear FA310TX PCI Ethernet adapter and a freakin' awesome Matrox G400Max!!


[This message has been edited by BreadFan (edited 04 December 1999).]

[This message has been edited by BreadFan (edited 04 December 1999).]

[xortam]

Sorry you're having problems with Quake III. I've had a couple problems, but that didn't keep me from fraggin on the net till 1 this morning. I used the demo versions ahead of time to make sure my system was in order. Hope you get your setup working so you can have some of this fun. Gotta go, this soldier is due back in the arena ...

[xortam]

I've used both the full ICD and TurboGL w/o problems. Try launching quake passing it config parameters, e.g.:
quake3 +seta r_mode 4 +seta r_texturebits 32 +seta r_colorbits 32 +seta r_fullscreen +seta r_swapinterval 0 +vid_restart

If you search the forum, you'll see this issue was addressed replacing the .cfg file. I prefer the above technique, or you could match you're desktop metrics with you're .cfg settings in Q3.

[jediphoenix]

Well personally I prefer UT sniping someone in the facing worlds map from the top of the tower at 1280 x 1024 16 bit with all the eye candy turned on high is da BOMB not to mention im getting 38fps in UT at that rez. I like quake 3 a little but at 1024 x 768 16 bit with medium textures im only getting 20.8 FPS which is barely playable, But i do not get any jerkyness or stutters.

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[Muad'Dib]

I just downloaded the demo and the stupid thing tells me there is a gen. protection fault at .... It then kicks me back to the desktop at the lowest possible res my monitor supports. Someone please help me fix this. Thanks