Another Q3 Problem

[TymbrWlf 0]

I've been having a minor problem with Quake 3: After playing for about 10 minutes or so, the game will lock up and the only way to get out is to hit the reset button. I have a P-III 500, 192m Ram, 20gb WD hard drive (ATA/66), Diamond Monster II 3D (Voodoo2 chipset), ATI Xpert@play 98, using W2K 2195 Pro Final. This is something that has just started happening. The only thing that I've seen was a reference to turning off "flare" on the NTCompatible 3dfx page but whoever wrote it had rather poor english (no offense intended) and I couldn't find anything in the Q3 setup about flare. This occurs whether I'm actually playing or if I just have the game open; about 10 minutes into it and it locks up. This is just a kinda annoying problem. I really like the overall performance of W2K; I'd hate to have to go back to Win98 just because of this.

 

[This message has been edited by TymbrWlf (edited 11 February 2000).]

[rickj 0]

sorry i can't help, but i thought i'd let you know your not alone. my system also uses a monster2 8mb version w/ an ati rage pro turbo chipset 2d card. i have the same problem. maybe it has some thing to do with the ati voodoo combo?

 

rick johnston

cedar ridge, ca

 

p.s win98se works fine

[rickj 0]

changing pci slots seemed to help, but didn't solve it completely.......now i can sometimes play for 20 minuites.......>;-0

 

(i used pci slot 1)

 

newbie freak

[Spree 0]

This may sound odd, but if you have A3D audio enabled on your system it can serverly f up your game play

[killer4711 0]

i think you must edit the the q3config.cfg

in the baseq3 dir (if the cfg look weird -> start edit from a dos box).

 

In my config is the following value:

 

seta r_flares "0"

 

I hope it helps you