Quake 3 just wont work, pls help me

[[alpha]Airwalk]

Here r my specs:
K6 III 350
Matrox g200
64mb ram
windows me (but have had 98 installed and Q3 wouldnt work)

I am stumped as to why Quake 3 will not work. my system bairly scrapes into the minmum system requirements i know but as far as im concerned any Quake3 is better than none.
I have tried everything at present i have the latest drivers for my card 5.52 and the latest update for Quake 3. Ive tried turning bus mastering off but no luck. Every time i run Quake 3 with bus mastering on it plays the intro movie or part of it then the c.d key screen\main menu is displayed for a fraction of second before i recieve a windows blue screen error. I have tried installing Quake 3 off both a win98 and winme install with no luck. Ive tried the matrox g200 opengl drivers on the Quake 3 cd.
one interesting thing too note is that my g200 is sharing an irq (number 11) with and IRQ HOLDER FOR PCI STEERING and try as i may i couldnt stop this sharing. Anyway I ABSOLUTLEY must play quake 3 so any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE: half life and many other direct 3d programs work fine except a few stuffed up textures which are too be expected from an older card.

thanx a lot for your help
- [alpha]Airwalk

[Brian R.]

In my opinion, your best bet would be to pick up a Voodoo 2 card (or 2) and use Glide.

[Mellow_Dude]

5.52 drivers never worked with my via chipset. I run with the 6.01 drivers and downloaded the inf file (As described in other posts and on the main MURCER website). This has solved any and all problems I had with my G200 running games. There is no game I could complain about unplayable perfomance with (I don't play many multiplayer games).

My system is a PII 300 @ 450 (SL2YK Chip @ 2.18 volts) and a MYCOMP T16NBF Via 133 Chipset with 96 Megs of ram. Suit's my needs fine!

[Mellow_Dude]

By the way,

Quake 3
Unreal Tourny
Deus-Ex
Unreal
Half-Life
MCM2

All of the above I have and they plat sweet.

[RAB]

[alpha]
Have you made any progress? We made several suggestions, but have not heard back from you. Is there something that needs further explanation? Don't be shy, we have all been in your situation.

RAB

[Johnny Ray]

Airwalk,

"g200 is sharing an irq (number 11) with and IRQ HOLDER FOR PCI STEERING"

This is normal - not the problem.


John

[This message has been edited by Johnny Ray (edited 11 September 2000).]

[ayoub_ibrahim]

are we allowed to know what the blue screen error says? it could be very relevant!!!!!

[HedsSpaz]

Maybe you should go back and read/re-read the responses you got the first time you posted about this problem. Several of us made important suggestions there. Try them why don't you.

[[alpha]Airwalk]

Thanks for all your help guys just after posting this message i downloaded the latest via 4 in 4 drivers this fixed all my problems and now i get decent frames in quake 3 at 640x480 so im happy.

thanks a lot for all your help its greatly appreciated

- Airwalk