Q3 Arena tearing in Graphics

[JoeDredd]

Help

I have installed Q3A on my PC and sometimes in the game, i will get slight tearing, i have tried lowering the graphics details but it still happens, i have the latest drivers 5.41 & TurboGL i have tried using 5.31???, still the same my system is as follows

Atrend BX slot1 mobo with MSI Slocket
Celery 400a @500
160mb PC100
G400 32 D/H
8.4 UDMA (Dma off)
6.4 UDMA (Dma off)
Pioneer 6x/32x DVD
Memorex 48X CD
Windows98 SE
Intellimouse Explorer USB
Soundblaster 1024 Live
loads of fans

will DMA being off have any effect or cause this prob?

[JoeDredd]

Oh how do you disable VSYNC, is in the matrox tweak thingy, forgot to say that i also have DX7 as well

Doh!

[JoeDredd]

Woohoo

I am now a Mini MURCer yahh!!!!!!!!

[Goc]

Hi Dredd

Have you tried enabling DMA? Or are you just plain scared that you'll lose data or your disk will blow up if you use DMA while overclocking?
I never had a problem with it although my PCI bus ran on 45 Mhz (FSB 90 PCI 1/2) With or without DMA everything was OK with disks, but when not using DMA my performance sucked bigtime. You can put 2 Gb of RAM in your machine but if your disk is slow, it slows down everything else... It's same with every component in any machine...
I always use WD or IBM disks so i can't guarantee for Maxtor, Quantum and other craps

For VSYNC check with the registry hacks on www.murc.ws

[Paddy]

If you o/c you card too much you can get tearing cant you?

[evil-kirk]

Try setting AGP Aperture Size to 256 MB in your BIOS. That fixed a lot of texture problems I was having, especially while overclocking. If you aren't overclocking your G400 you're really missing out--especially in Q3.