Please Help : Proper Way of Quake 3 Arena Installation

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Hi all,

I just installed Q3, but when I launch it, it just kicks me back to the desktop. What's wrong?? At first I thought that I didn't run the GLSetup, but after I ran it, Q3 still kicks me back to the desktop, saying it could not open the OpenGL sub-system.

I did not run Matrox TurboGL Manager after installation. Is this necessary?? There is no IRQ conflict what so ever on my rig (G400:IRQ11) and Dual-Head is disabled. Any configuration or settings that I need to change? BTW, my G400 is the Vanilla o/cd to MAX with MGA Tweak. Driver version : 5.30.007 w/ TurboGL. Is 5.41 any better?? I did not install it coz 5.30 is good enough for me. My BIOS is Ver. 1.3....will upgrading it be any good??

Please help!!! I waited so long for this game and now it refuses to run!! AARRGGHH!! Back to playing REVENANT I guess!!! Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

Iskandhar@Home

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PIII 500MHz@500MHz
Gigabyte BX2000
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 24X IDE CD-ROM
Pioneer 6X/32X IDE DVD-ROM
Yamaha 4260 SCSI CD-Rewritable Drive
2 X IBM 9.1 HDD
Vanilla G400 32MB Dual Head (150/200 core/mem)(YAHOO!!!!)
CL Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
ACS45.1 Speakers
17" Viewsonic (Secondary)
17" LG Flatron (Primary)

[Iskandhar Shahril]

WOOHOO!!!!

Hey Gurm....guess what??? It works!!!! Thanks a lot man.....Now running at 1024X768 at 32 Bit!! Awesome!!!

OK man....thanks once again....gonna frga those mother****ers to oblivion now!!!!

CHEERS,

A VERY, VERY HAPPY ISKANDHAR....

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PIII 500MHz@500MHz
Gigabyte BX2000
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 24X IDE CD-ROM
Pioneer 6X/32X IDE DVD-ROM
Yamaha 4260 SCSI CD-Rewritable Drive
2 X IBM 9.1 HDD
Vanilla G400 32MB Dual Head (150/200 core/mem)(YAHOO!!!!)
CL Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
ACS45.1 Speakers
17" Viewsonic (Secondary)
17" LG Flatron (Primary)

[surfactant]

I have the same rig as you. What are you getting for framerates? The beta drivers that were hyped on the various hardware sites were a lot faster than what i'm getting(42 fps)at 800x600 32 bit. Is it that way for all video cards?

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Uuuhhhh.....well.......lemme see......????

Sorry I can't be much of help coz I ain't a hardcore gamer!!! Just being able to run Quake 3 at playable frame rates is superb for me!!! Really!!!

Uuhh...beta drivers? what beta drivers??

Cheers...

[Gurm]

A. Quake3 final has substantially lower framerates than Quake3 Demo did. More entities, etc. etc.

B. Those "beta drivers" have never seen the light of day, and I'm guessing were a more highly tweaked (and less compatible) form of what we see in the TurboGL. It's not likely they would run the final Q3 properly anywho.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Gurm]

Step 1:

Install Win98(se)

Step 2:

Install DirectX 7

Step 3:

Install 5.41 drivers

Step 4:

Install Quake3

Step 5:

DO NOT INSTALL GLSETUP

Step 6:

Run Q3. Select 800x600, 32-bit display, and 32-bit textures. Then quit Q3.

Step 7:

Install TurboGL into Q3 directory.

Step 8:

Play Q3. Yay!

- Ash

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Hey,

Thanks....GURM??? Hehehehe

Gonna try it now....will get back here to tell you how it goes....

Cheers.

Iskandhar

[superfly]

o.k i have quake 3 but how exactly do i make sure that the game is using the turbo GL driver?(it runs much slower than my v2 sli)because the game looks awsome on the G400max.if it isn't using the driver,how do i find the driver and install it into the proper directory,thanks in advance.

[superfly]

the powerdesk doesn't show the turbo GL option when i use it and i know that quake 3 isn't using it(it shows the standard driver)but worse is the fact that when i access the turbo gl setup utility,it lists the game,tells me that quake3 isn't using the driver but when i try to apply the driver,the utility returns the message"can't find the turbo GL driver" by the way the sistem was reformated yesterday and i followed every recomendation on the matrox site,thanks anyways.