What happened? Q3 has color and texture shifts under NT 4.0

[jeepman]

I am using the 4.31 NT drivers. I can't use 4.34 because I was experiencing hard drive corruption when using 4.34.

I have already re-installed Q3 and used Setup again. My desktop is set to 32bit depth, and I have it set Q3 to 800x600, with everything turned up to max (i.e. 32bit, high quality textures, trilinear, etc). I have run with r_smp 1 and r_smp 0 so I think I have ruled out a SMP issue. I have even started the system with NT's BOOT.INI choice with the "/onecpu" switch. Same issues.

When the level loads everything looks normal until I "move", the floor textures will shift from normal to diagonal lines. The walls show texture and color shifting as well. I am running MGA Tweak, but it is set at default clock of 252.

I have also gone to a 16 bit desktop, and turned settings down. Same thing.

Wierdest thing is, it did work before. I can't think about what I could have changed to create the issue. I have even gone over a month without adding or changing hardware.

Thanks...

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[jeepman]

Update:

I have re-installed the 4.31 drivers, still have the problem.

In Q3, I finally turned off the GL Extensions to see what it would do... PROBLEM SOLVED, sort of! Now my FPS has gone down to a point close to being unplayable. I get about 22.2 FPS in demo001 at 800x600.

Does anyone else have to turn off GL Extensions to get Q3 to run under NT 4.0 SP6???

[jeepman]

This is like I have a nice personal thread going... Hehe. Anyways, I have kind of fixed the issue. I have to Enable DualHead Multimonitor support, but I can use a single desktop choice, or the 2048x768 choice. It does not matter which one choice, it full screens to Q3 Arena, and I can play fine.

I think the reason why it worked before was because I was running dual monitor.

Anyways, I am kinda happy, but chime in if you have this issue and have solved it another way!

thanks...

[This message has been edited by jeepman (edited 05 January 2000).]