I'm running a V3 2000, BTW, have you guys run
the latest (1.17n, IIRC) point release?
I'm a bit of a traitor :o), I find It runs much
better in W98, if I use Linux, I get my @$$ fragged
off.....
HTH
-WBD
Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
>
> I hope you don't mind if I chime in here; what kind of hardware were you
> running when you had Q3 running with MDK7.0? I'm considering pulling 7.1
> off and replacing with 7.0 just so I can play this new Q3 that I bought -
> I'd hate to do that if it ended up not working either. I've got the Matrox
> G400 card that's supposed to be supported out of the box from loki, Athlon
> 700 and 512MB RAM and I'm getting the same results as Jay - I figured it had
> to be something with the mesa drivers, but I'm not really sure.
>
> Thanks, Mike
>
> > QIII (full) worked fine with the 3.3.6 in 7.0, there are mouse probs in
> > 4.0 that will not be fixed until 4.0.1 is released. Do you have glide
> > & mesa installed (version that comes with quake is probably better
> > than the mandrake one)? There are drivers & instructions at
> > http://www.linux.3dfx.com . IIRC I have seen a Mandrake rpm
> > for device 3dfx, so it might be on your CD, but you'll probably
> > need the voodoo 3 glide rpm. Don't download the X 3.3.5 from
> > 3dfx.com though, as, 3.3.6 from Mandrake is better.
> >
> > If you are still having probs, start it from a term (without "&")
> > & post the output (try killing it with ctrl+alt+esc->move cursor
> > ->enter, or opening a new term with ctrl+alt +F1 & whacking it
> > with top).
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > -WBD
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jay Summet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 2:39 AM
> > Subject: [expert] Quake III doesn't work with XFree 3.3.6 OR 4.0??
> >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I've been trying to get the Quake III demo working on my system:
> > > Dual PII 333 192mb
> > > Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
> > > SoundBlaster AWE 64
> > > Mandrake 7.1 install (with XFree 3.3.6 initally).
> > >
> > > I downloaded and installed the Q3Demo and everything appeared to go ok
> > until I
> > > ran it. When I did, the sound was very choppy, and the mouse would
> barely
> > move.
> > > I had to press the tab key 5 times to get down to exit and hit return
> > (took it
> > > about 2 seconds between moves.)
> > >
> > > I figured it might be GPM, so I killed gpm off, no difference.
> > > I figured I may as well try upgrading to XFree86 4.0 so I did so
> > (downloading
> > > directly from XFree86.org) and had the same problems. Then I noticed the
> > > XFree86 4.0 mdk.rpm on the install CD, so I erased my current setup and
> > used
> > > that to upgrade to 4.0, same problem.
> > >
> > > (X windows is working correctly in all cases other than the Q3Demo
> > problems
> > > outlined above.)
> > >
> > > It appears that my version of Xfree doesn't matter, and I was wondering
> if
> > > anybody else had fixed this problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jay
> > >
> >
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