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Linux Q3Test 1.07

Posted by justin++ on from the woohoo! dept.

ozium writes "Q3test 1.07 out for Linux. blah blah get it blah blah lose sleep. www.quake3arena.com " Finally! I've been dying, since all the different Q3's are incompatible. For the last week or so, Linux users have been unable to play on just about all the public servers out there. I wonder how much faster this one is...

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  1. Re:"Just about all the public servers?" by Jburkholder · · Score: 3

    Just what exactly are you getting at? Yeah, so id releases a lot of patches for their games, so what? Since this is a *test* and they are making an effort to get feedback and patch it before its a released game instead of pushing it out the door, maybe we can expect a better product when it ships?

    Post-releases are a fact of life, unfortunately. The only games I can think of I've ever bought that didn't have any patches were some of the LucasArts games.

    God I bought Unreal almost a year ago and there have been how many patches and its still not as playable as it should be. I think id probably has a better track record than most when it comes to adressing problems after the game is out.

    Yeah, it sucked when Q2 had so many patches right after it came out, but it wasn't the end of the world. Q3 will have patches, probably not as many as Q2 did, since they are doing a much more extended 'test'. And hell, we're getting to play the game and give them feedback. How many other game companies do that?

  2. Re:Slow CPU - Not likely by Zoid · · Score: 5

    An important thing to know is that the ping time as shown in the game does include your frame rate. If you are getting 20fps, that's 50ms added to the trip time to the server. Add a good 30ms to get over a WAN link and you're sitting at 80ms.

    But if you are getting 100fps (not unreasonable, I get 100fps pretty consistently on my Voodoo3 on a P2-450), that's only at most 10ms added to the trip time.

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  3. Re:controlling frame rates by armybob · · Score: 3

    thats because Q3s netcode isn't connected to the players framerate. Just use the /rate command to set your proper speed. Typical

    33.6 = /rate 2800 or 3000
    isdn 64k = /rate 5500 or 6000
    isdn 128k = /rate 10000 or 12000
    t1/dsl/cable = i think you get the trend on /rate figure out your sustained bandwidth & set it up.

  4. Re:darn it by matguy · · Score: 3

    I have it on my lan Party server at

    http://www.aeigames.com/party/

    It's on our T1 here at work, so be nice. (I know the server is NT, I don't have a choice in the matter, it's at work.)

    matguy
    Net. Admin.

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    matguy(.com)