Quake3, weird stuff

[Cyber-D]

Hmm...what is wrong here?

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Body of Visor with head of Sarge???

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This isn't supposed to be white

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This is wrong to

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More weird shit!

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Shotgun with blue laser and turns red again when getting closer.

What the ...peeep!...is wrong here ?

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[dZeus]

I also experienced the glitches in the second and third image, however, that was back with Win2k PowerDesk driver 5.01 or 5.03.... they have been fixed for some time now.

I advice to update your drivers.

[Cyber-D]

Here is the info of my drivers and card;

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[dZeus]

you can update the drivers to at least 5.55 (if not even newer).

[Cyber-D]

Ok, i have upgraded it to this;

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But now the game doesn't even want to start. It crashes right after the intro movie

HEEEEELP!!!!

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[DuRaNgO]

Please list your system specs and if possible, your irq assignments
jim

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P3-700e @ agiga! Check it here!
Abit BE6-2
TwinMos 256mb pc-133
G400 32mb DH
Maxtor 15.3gb 7,200rpm
SB Live!
Toshiba 12x DVD
Iomega 650cd burner
Winblows 98se & DX7
and 384k DSL!

[Cyber-D]

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* System Summary *
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< Hardware >
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 700 MHz
Math Support: On Chip
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies 03/24/00
Bus Type: PCI
Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial
Memory: 511 MB (57% Utilized)
Floppy Disks: 1,44 MB
Hard Disks: 19,08 GB, 9,56 GB
Multimedia: Sound, Joystick, CD-ROM
Video: 1152x864 in 32-Bit Color, Matrox Marvel G400 AGP - English Ver. 4.0
Motherboard: Abit KA7
< Operating System >
Windows: 4.10 (Build 2222 A )
DOS: 7.10
Net Clients:
Microsoft Network

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* Display Summary *
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Monitor: Iiyama A901HT, VisionMaster Pro 450
Video Chipset: Matrox Marvel G400 AGP - English Ver. 4.0
Resolution: 1152x864 in 32-Bit Color

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* Memory Report - Summary *
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< General Information >
Memory Utilization: 57%
Total Physical Memory: 511 MB (535822336 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 4,73 MB (4964352 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 1213 MB (1271791616 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 1107 MB (1161150464 Bytes)
Largest free block: 991 MB (1039638528 Bytes)
Swap File pages: 130797
16-Bit USER free percentage: 46%
16-Bit GDI free percentage: 64%

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* Multimedia Summary *
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< Waveform output devices >
SB Live! Wave Out [18A0]
Manufacturer Id: 2 (Creative Labs, Inc)
Product Id: 104 (Sound Blaster 16 waveform output)
Version: 4.2
Product Name: SB Live! Wave Out [18A0]

Soundblaster and Marvell are both on IRQ 11...there are no hardware conflicts though.


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[shogun]

The wrong head is easily explained. Just use the new /headmodel command in q3a to set your current head to that of any other model.
However the rest are just examples of various graphical glitches people see. Why don't you tell us what driver version and exact card you are using so we can guess what it is exactly?

[xortam]

Cyber-D ... How do you manage to get 511MB installed? Anyway, yes you do have a hardware conflict. Matrox cards don't like sharing interrupts. Move it onto it own interrupt, IRQ 9 or higher.

[Cyber-D]

How i get 511 Mb ? No idea. I have 4x 128 Mb installed. I know it's 512Mb total, but it shows up as 511Mb...oh well.
I have a few questions about all this now;

1. How come that Quake3 doesn't work after i installed the new drivers?
2. How come that it doesn't show anny hardware conflicts in my device list?
3. How do i change the IRQ? When i try it tells me that it cannot be changed. And in the system bios i also cannot seem to change the IRQ.

[xortam]

Windows allows for devices to share IRQs but some devices are sensitive to sharing: That's why Windows isn't complaining about it. Remember also that you would want to place devices that are interrupted more frequently on their own interrupt to increase system performance. Driver changes may stress the card differently and expose preexisting HW problems. You can check out this FAQ to determine how to change IRQs.

[Cyber-D]

I read that i can change the irq of the first PCI device in the bios. However, my G400 is in an AGP slot and not PCI. Or does this make no difference?
And second, i do not seem to have anny IRQ's free to move it to (why don't they make more IRQ's aniway! )
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[xortam]

Whoa!!! As the MURCers would say, "Free beer on IRQ11!". That's quite a party you're throwing there. "Why can't we all just get along?". Now break it up ...
First of all, are you using both SCSI and IDE devices? If you're not using one or the other, disable its interrupts. You can also free up an interrupt (IRQ 5) by disabling SB emulation in your audio drivers (unless you play DOS games). If you're not using USB, you can disable its interrupt as well. If you are using USB, consider buying a USB mouse and freeing up IRQ 12. You may be able to free up a COM IRQ if you don't use both COM ports. AFA AGP IRQs ... on most MBs, the AGP slot and PCI slot 1 share IRQs. You should keep that slot empty or put a card in there that doesn't require an IRQ.

[Cyber-D]

Ok what i have done so far;

->I had my SCSI controller (for my CDROM and CDwriter) in PCI slot 1 and i put it in slot 2
->The Soundblaster Live i changed from slot 2 to slot 3
->In the BIOS i changed the IRQ's assigned to the PCI's as you can see:

->I removed the Soundblaster Emulation, COM1 and COM2, and moved the mouse to the USB port (it's an Intellimouse Explorer)
However, i still cannot seem to get the Matrox card to have an IRQ for it's own and i cannot seem to assing IRQ3 to the soundblaster and IRQ4 (wich are both free now) to the SCSI interface, as you can see
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Now it is all getting even more complicated (and a nice gallery is building up here too )
I would be very very very very greatfull if annyone could fix this crap for me.

[Sisyfos]

PNP OS Installed = No