[olug] Problems w/Quake 3

[William Langford]

Quake3 was 'playable' on an i740.

TNT2 under windows was quite playable.

How it goes under linux... i have no clue ... but the card should have 
more than enough horsepower for it :)

-Will


Brandon Lederer wrote:

>Good Luck with Q3 on a TNT2.  Let me know how playable it is.
>
>On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:19 pm, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
>  
>
>>Are you trying to run it out of the box, or with the latest patches?
>>1.32b is at http://downloads.reboottheuser.com/rtu/rtu_sw_pkgs/games/quake3
>>if you need it login:movies passwd:video
>>
>>It shouldnt be looking for anything Glide related since that is Voodoo
>>related..........Check the settings under the 'system' section to make
>>sure that it's using the default GL driver and not 'voodoo'
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi ho,
>>>
>>>I picked up Quake 3 from Jay's place a few months back... still haven't
>>>got it
>>>working.  Any help would be great!
>>>
>>>I'm running SuSE 9.0 w/nVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (32 mb)
>>>
>>>Quake 3 originally was looking for libglide2x.so (see output below).  My
>>>SuSE
>>>system has the following:
>>>/usr/lib/libglide3-v3.so
>>>/usr/lib/libglide3-v5.so
>>>which are a part of the XFree86-Mesa-4.3.0 package. I found an older
>>>package
>>>(glide_v2-2) for SuSE 8.1 which had libglide2x.so.  I installed it and it
>>>works, but the framerate is around 2 fps (not playable).
>>>
>>>Should I even be using this library since I don't have a VooDoo board?  I
>>>have
>>>the latest Nvidia drivers installed w/3D acceleration enabled, and other
>>>3D
>>>games give me good fps w/o libglide2x.so.   Also, Quake 3 worked fine for
>>>me on
>>>SuSE < 8.2.  So I'm stumped.
>>>
>>>FYI, libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.2 and libGL.so (symlink to former) were
>>>installed in
>>>the Quake3 directory.
>>>
>>>Anyhoot, any ideas would be most appreciated!
>>>Eric
>>>
>>>Ps.  Here is my output before installing libglide2x.so
>>>(glide_v2-2.53-138.rpm).
>>>
>>>----- R_Init -----
>>>...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf
>>>or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
>>>file or
>>>directory
>>>failed
>>>...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so
>>>from
>>>/etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot open shared object
>>>file:
>>>No such file or directory
>>>failed
>>>----- CL_Shutdown -----
>>>RE_Shutdown( 1 )
>>>-----------------------
>>>----- CL_Shutdown -----
>>>-----------------------
>>>Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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