Q3 for Win2k Guide

[Steve Rumble 0]

Ok, I've spent a while screwing with win2k, almost gave up and put 98 back in when I found out a few little tricks to get things working right.

 

First of all, driver conflicts were a *****, and some just didn't work. My advice if you're having trouble is to remove all video drivers, let win2k boot up and choose default ones, then try to upgrade them. If that doesn't work, you can attempt adding new hardware and removing the old device. I'm using some aopen TNT drivers now. 3.6.5 were problematic, but I may go back later.

 

As for SMP, I got it to work before, but it's still buggy. Maybe with newer drivers I'll give it a shot, but too many times it totally hung windows.

 

Many complained about a poor refresh rate. Some suggested hacking inf install files. There's a better way in q3. The /r_displayRefresh variable.

 

ex:

 

/r_displayRefresh 120

 

give you 120hz. Works great.

 

To improve darkness, first tell q3 to ignore the hardware gamma using:

 

/r_ignorehwgamma 1

 

then to adjust gamma:

 

/r_gamma 1.8 (my preferred setting)

 

That should get quake3 running much better and brighter than before. It's still not totally smooth for me yet, but I'll try other drivers and continue tweaking.

[r0ck0i 0]

you got it all wrong. You need to edit your inf display driver to get the right refresh rate in win2k then you dont have to use a q3 command. As for it being dark, you want to use hardware gamma so leave that at defualt and change r_overbrightbits to 0. then change r_intensity to 1.2 or 1.1 or 1.4 whatever looks good. Then use r_gamma to get it just right.