KalleAnka 0 Posted November 16, 1999 I have a problem, my Q3 locks up after a few minutes of play. Stays locked for about 10 seconds and then works fine for a few more minutes befor it hangs again. Sometimes it doesn't start again thoug . It is NOT the 3d icons problem, if i don't turn them off it locks up at once. This problem exists in both the old and new version of Q3. Under smp 1 and 0 (latest version of q3) My system: Abit bp6 2*celeron 366@550Mhz Creative Labs riva tnt 16Mb Win2k 2176 Tnt driver 3.53 Other games like UT works great hours on end without any problems. This problem existed in earlier builds of win2k aswell. If you have any ideas pleas help! Share this post Link to post
Greggy 0 Posted November 16, 1999 I also have an SMP machine and had very similar problems with Quake 3 on Windows 2000. What sound card are you using? I might be wrong, but I am beginning to think the MX300/TNT2 (or TNT ?) combination is partly to blame. I blew away Windows 2000, installed NT4 SP6 and swapped to a Creative PCI 128 sound card (to cure sound dropouts under NT4) and everything is perfect. A friend of mine had NT4 SP6 on a dual motherboard, single PII 350, MX300 and a TNT2 Vanta and he was getting strange lockups under Quake 3 as well. He swapped to an AWE 64 sound card + latest drivers and its now fine... Share this post Link to post
Igor 0 Posted November 17, 1999 With duel CPUs no point in using MX300. THe dam pice of junk has no SMP drivers and just crashes I traded it for a live now the sound works. Tribes support SMP right? That games has no problems with sound or lockups on my system but Q3 just will not run with r_SMP 1 enabled IT works otherwise... Share this post Link to post
