q3 stutters every now and then

[nufan]

When i'm playing q3, ever couple of minutes (sometimes more frequently) it will freeze the image on the screen, play whatever noise was currently playing 3 times, then continue as if nothing happened. This is fine in single player mode, since it picks up where it left off, but in network games it sucks because i always wind up 15 feet farther on than where i was, and more often than not, dead. I have seen this happen on my friend's system too.. he has a k7/128ram/v3 2000

i have a dual celeron@550/128 ram/g400 32ram

i assume everyone has seen this? is there a way to prevent it?

thanks
nufan
confucius say, 'when elephants fight, only the grass suffers'

[paulcs]

You might want to help us out a bit with more detailed specs. I can't imagine it has anything to do with the components you listed because your friend has a very different configuration and is experiencing the same problem.

I'm going to take a shot in the dark here. I suspect something is polling your system.

What kind of NIC are you using?

Are you using virus protection software?

Again, I'm guessing.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[nufan]

hmm
polling you say?

i have mcafee running most of the time, as well as the powerdesk icon

complete specs:
dual celeron 366@550 (alpha heatsinks)
case fan/hd cooling fan
bp6 mobo
9gb 7200rpm udma66
18gb 5400rpm udma33
mx300 sound + mx25 digital out
isa ne2000 netcard (generic)
2 sticks 64mb 8ns pc100
creative 2xdvd rom (no hardware card - ide)
4x4x16 yamaha cdrw ide
g400 dualhead 32mb oem
pd5.41.008
win98 SE/linux/win2k (all games in 98 so far)

anything else you need to know?
-nufan

[This message has been edited by nufan (edited 05 February 2000).]

[Hunsow]

Sounds like an old Q2 problem, try fiddling with the sound mixahead settings.

Put this in your autoexec.cfg, increase if the sound gets distorted.

seta s_mixahead "0.05"

[paulcs]

Try disabling McAfee and see what happens.

There have been issues with 3Com software and drivers, but that doesn't seem to be your problem.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Maniac]

Actually under this is quite normal with Quake3! It is a combination of cpu and network lag. It always results in being fragged.

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Celeron 366@567 2.2V, 128meg generic PC-100 RAM (running at CAS2) Abit BH6, G400 16meg DH@150/200, Western Digital Expert 18gig, Ricoh mp7040A(morphed to mp7060A) Pioneer 6X DVD slot load, Motorola Cable Modem w/DEC ethernet card, Soundblaster Live Value Ver. 2, Viewsonic GT 775

[Jupp]

On my previous system P2-350/192MB/G400Max Q3 stuttered every now and then. I think this was a sound issue, because setting the background sound volume to 0 solved this problem.

Try this.


R.

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[bigluker]

Sorry guys, you're ALL WRONG. It's a CD issue. Make sure you do a full install, and pump up your HDD-cache settings using TweakAll from www.3dfiles.com

This is a problem i had with Quake 2 when using CD install. Once i did normal install it was fine.

[Hunsow]

That's it, I knew Q2 had that problem I just didn't remember why.

[Fyrespray]

I wouldn't say that this is normal, I have never had it and most of the people I know have never had it either. The only problems I have heard about with stuttering is people with TNT2U's and GeForce on certain maps due to nividia's buggy drivers

Fyrespray

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Celery 366 @ 550,Abit BM6, 128Mb PC100 Ram, G200 8Mb, AWE64 Gold, Win98SE.