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Quake3 Demo Test Released
It seems like everyone and their dog wrote in with the news that the Quake 3 Demo Test is now available for download. Win32 only at the moment, although that probably won't stop most of you. Highlights include single player mode with bots (it says here), and a new map. And it does look very pretty.
Looks like the /. effect has kicked in. Or could it just be the q3arena effect?
with the advent of the demo launch, I guarantee http://www.quake3arena.com/demo/index.html gets /.'d REAL quick.
I am, therefore you think.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:44:15 GMT
Server: WebSitePro/2.3.15
WebSite Pro, eh? I'm getting 'Connection Refused' errors at times, though. This does not point to a problem with the web server. It's the OS. We had this problem with NT. The TCP stack is a pile of shit. 3 million hit a day web site had this problem. We put them on a Solaris box with Apache and it took the beating and didn't cry to mommy.
Anyways, if you're company is running a promo, tell your ISP well before it happens. I work for one and can tell you about the many times where the number if hits go from 2000/day to 50+/sec for a site and we have to rush and configure the system to handle the load. I don't mind rushing around too much, but before that happens, your company looks bad.
Just how many people *don't* run Quake? I don't use Windows, so I'd have to wait for a Linux client. But that won't do me much good either, as my box is a P120 with no 3D card. So I either spend lots of money I havent got, just to play a game, or I miss out. Miss out it is then.
Maybe it won't be too long. At JC's suggestion, glx-dev span off a separate users' list last week, because they are expecting a flood of non-development questions as soon as Q3T/Linux hits.
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well, I'd hafta say it was /. this time, tho. When I loaded /. up, there were no comments on it; fresh story. So I hit the link, and started downloading. Got 45k/sec for the first 10%, and then things started to spiral. I think it's getting 3k/sec, now. That's if it hasn't timed out.
Given the number of Quake addicts in the slashdot crowd, I'd say that the 'ol effect is in force, here.
Dirk
I keep trying to pick fights, but I can't shake this Excellent karma.
So far, the list I'm aware of is:
www.quake3arena.com (hosed)
fileplanet.com (hosed)
mngamers.com (some speed)
Blues News (some speed)
Post more as you find them...
I'm confused. I'm sure I downloaded a demo of Q3: Arena the other week, couldn't get it to work though cos I don't have a 3Dfx card.
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It sez runs on Win95 or better...
so whats stopping it running on linux?
Dirk stood in the Stanley
I stayed up all night playing it just to bring a detailed review and too many screenshots. You can read about it here We've gotten a lot of cool comments from voodoo extreme visitors too.
Those screenshots aren't from the thing that just came out. Take a look at these. They show a lot of the new features and fun stuff.
I'm glad I beat the slashdot crowd by a couple of hours.
Oh, and YEEHAAA! It finally supports my controller. My hands have been suffering something terrible playing with the KBD.
I look forward to fragging you all senseless!
Kintanon
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come to:
ftp://q3:q3@129.22.254.36:271
for my mirror of the win32 file
Do you have a 3d card?
I'm running on a Celeron 266 w/Voodoo 2 and the test ran nicely (both Linux + Win98).
Voodoo 2's can run with your current 2d card and they are pretty cheap.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Try the patched XFree from Nvidia. I tried and it works fine with a Viper770. You have to copy or symlink the libMesablabla or make sure ldconfig points to it. It seems not to work with precompiled 3.3.5 Xfree.
Even the performance is a bit slower, but absolutely playable, q3 looked better in my linux box than in a frined's win98 who has a "siamese" box (we build them at the same time). ;)
And, setting up my box to run q3 was easy and quick. We cannot say the same of that "no-roadmap" windows98 that needs a beta directX that's incompatible with anything else...
Have you noted how painfull can be to have 2 video setups in a windows machine? That's not user friendly...
The fact is: The teleports look better on linux, and I like that
Why Quake is big news?
I grew up gaming (since my C64). Why should I stop now, married w/children?
Yes, it's off-topic...who cares?
ftp://home.tampabay.rr.com/misc/q3DemoTEST.exe
There are like 5 files that Nvidia is distributing. Which ones does one need and what needs to be done properly? My TNT worked with Q3 at one point in time and was getting maybe 10 fps. In Windoze it gets 30+. Hating linux due to this.
To bad we have to wait for the linux ports. Quake is a great network load testing tool. Remember that, it's a tool....yeah that's right..... a network testing tool......
Yeah I got it to work with my TNT card using the OpenGL libs on Nvidia's site but performace was 10fps on my PII450. You are better off finding an old Voodoo2 for $10 until they get some good drivers.
No, actually... You're wrong. Last night, around 2 when it finally came out there were at least 400 people on #q3demo on Enterthegame.com, around 250 on #quake on EfNet. there's 650 ppl JUST ON 2 IRC networks that were waiting anxiously for the demo, let alone the ppl they tell to get it, etc... Those servers would be roached regardless of /.'s existance.
Whohoo!
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:)
... and missing.
I'm downloading it now at a blazing 10K
I'll have it up and mirrored for now at
loki.rh.rit.edu
quake3/quake3
if you log in and nothing is there.. i'm not done downloading it yet
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The older games (Wolf3D, Doom, Quake) actually felt like games. They were fun, and kept you occupied for hours.
Ever since Quake II though, it doesn't feel like you're playing a game, it feels like you're using a 3D engine. Yeah, the single player aspect was there, but for some reason the fun wasn't.
I guess the point-and-die thing still has its appeal to some people, but I'm waiting for something with more substance, not just some program that can throw a bunch of texture-mapped shapes on the screen and call itself a game.
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Each particular gamer has their own tastes as to what's good or not. I can spend about 15 minutes at a time in a q3 server before I get frustrated that I've only gotten 3 kills, but then go hop on an Unreal Tournament CTF server & score 100 points in 20 minutes. As such, I think UT is a better game than q3 ^_^
But all these games are getting old if you think about it. They're the load of the same weapons, occassionally something unique coming alone (railgun for q2, ASMD for Unreal, Egon for Half Life). Each game is trying to pile on as many features as it can without really adding anything NEW to the genre.
It's sad, really..
www.quake3arena.com is running WebSitePro/2.3.15 on NT4 or Windows 98
I'll have to take their word for it. Can't actually connect, myself... Fortunately I have other Quake geek friends who were up in the middle of the night to download local copies.
1. Its cheaper than current generation 3d cards
2. You can still use your 2d card. So you don't have to beta test new Linux/Win9x drivers
But you do have very good points. My first post was directed to people who are not hardcore FPS players or just want a cheap upgrade to improve performance.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
The venerable FreeBSD flagship:
w in32
/. ;-) Download speed appears to be pretty decent as usual.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/idstuff/quake3/
Now THAT'S a site I'd like to try to
Interested in open source engine management for your Subaru?
Apparently you aren't following the Q3:A Test path here. I doubt you were even using the most current version of the Test. This is the Demo which includes a new map and the Bots. It also has the finalized icon and menu settings. But I wish they had made it easier to turn the grapple back on... I hate playing the longest yard with no grapple...
Kintanon
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When I read the byline "Deety-I-frag-you-three-times" or whatever I just had to smile, knowing that someone else out there enjoys good science fiction as much as I do :)
I have absolutely 0 (zero) clue on how to run this with my Riva-patched XFree. Never been able to run any GL enhanced software for that matter. Anyone knows?
mirror
I downloaded one of the glx servers from the nvidia site. It works at 16 bit color and the image quality is not very good. With my p2@300 and the TNT2U i get around 14 fps (800x600, timedemo 1, q3demo1). In windows98 i get 40+ fps using the high quality setting.
Hope this improves on the next version of XFree86.
http://www.screenshotz.net/quake.php3
There it is.. should be no lag.. have fun :)
Thanks,
David Gorman
http://gorman.modblog.com
It IS Quake on steroids, and that's the point. It's Quake on steroids and vast amounts of adrenaline. The game is MUCH faster, much more exciting, and much much prettier to look at than Quake's drab browns and greens. The weapons are cooler, the sounds are cooler, the graphics are far, far cooler, and the sheer _speed_ of the game make it wonderful, mindless fun.
Quake III would never make it on its own as a single player game, precisely because games like Half-Life and R6 are out there. However, it's faster than Unreal or Half-Life, and much more of a blast to play. Quake III give, in my opinion, the best testeronic (I know it's not a word) release of any computer game I've ever played.
So....accept the game for what it is and what Carmack wants it to be..a quick, visually and audially exciting game meant to be played without a lot of planning or thought (though many quake-ers I know will argue THAT point). Have fun.
*downloads immediately*
What it has to do with Quake, though, I have no idea.
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The debian service pack is running in vmware and god know I'd rather have it vica versa. But the svgalib don't see my ps2 mouse in vmware (gpm does), so I'm stuck :-(
Szo
Red Leader Standing By!
In the little I've read about Q3:Arena, I don't remember seeing anything about other play options, like CTF, etc. Are there going to be any in the final release? This is one thing that Unreal:Tournament has really nailed down - lots of great team options, game-matching, and that ngStats stuff is fun, too (and allowing server mods on a demo is pretty cool).
Try looking on U-NET's FTP Server:
/pub/games/quake3/demo
ADDY: ftp.u-net.net
USER: anonymous
PASS: your@email.com
PATH:
I averaged about 225k/s so enjoy it while it's there...
I wouldn't judge the game by your incompetence at it.
For as long as my server can handle it ! @ http://www.up2ng.com
I'll Try and keep it up (T1 speed - No promises)
up2ng
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire.
or is that just v1.08 of the test?
Yes, I believe that you made availiable something
that most already have.
The demo TEST is about 50,000k and yours is v1.08 which is about 34,000k.
But it is the thought that counts, right?
Excellent. Thanx dood, damn better than.. oh say, 2.5KB/sec!
from id's site...got around 100kps...the game is very sweet from my first impressions...i just wish that the mouse wheel scroll binds worked...and one more thing...major really blends in to the background on the first map, kinda annoying...i guess i'm just used to seeing bright blue or red visors ;)
-Red
-Red
what the hell is a 'value engineer'
no no no...I was simply commenting that the sudden slowdown I saw in the first few moments of downloading was probably slasdot related.
FWIW...the mirror on ftp.cdrom.com was a little busy on the logging in, but was plenty fast on the download.
Dirk
I keep trying to pick fights, but I can't shake this Excellent karma.
Check http://www.marsrobot.com and click the Quake 3 icon.
Play Well
Go to http://halo.bungie.com/ Download the movie in Quicktime format and see for yourself. The movie is actual footage grabbed from the game.
Uhm, thats the biggest selling point of Quake, the add-ons. Its not a huge deal, just learn to filter out what you dont play (VERY easy) or go do the simple download for the maps, sounds, or DLL.
FunOne
FunOne
Happy downloading...!!!
You have to run X11 in 16bit or the OpenGL stuff get's disabled. Even then Performance sucks though. We'll have to wait for XFree4.0 to get decent speed.
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Not that I'm bitching about all the ppl mirroring the demo, but weren't we NOT supposed to re-distribute this according to their EULA ?
ftp://128.253.254.56/q3DemoTEST.exe
SlashMirror: Where to put files for fellow /.'ers
SlashMirror: Where to put files for fellow /.'ers
ftp://198.82.71.107:21 This is from my dorm at VT. 20 users max.
"Maggie call Aquaman!!!"
Sorry my stupid FTP server prog doesnt work right.
"Maggie call Aquaman!!!"
Wow, thanks!
Szo
Red Leader Standing By!
I got it to work My dorm room server...
"Maggie call Aquaman!!!"
No offense, but I thought Nerf Arena Blast was lame. I thought it was going to be cool because it was based on Unreal's engine and all, but the fact that I can't kill anybody is disappointing.
"More organs means more human." - Zim
http://dtheatre.com/image.php3?shot0000.jpg
I remember one of the first things that I did with DOOM was to go outside and see what was around. Having a look at this shot, it seems that iD have yet to explore 'natural surroundings', with the exception of lighting and materials.
Things I would like to see in Quake IV,
jungle - L-Systems: http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/lsys/tutor.h
streetscape - remember Duke?
All these are possible (L-Systems, fractal geometry, noise functions) but iD continues concentrating and extending on the same (boring) old boxy architecture. Where's HR Giger when you need him?
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
Hell, if I had the points, I'd moderate it up to funny right now.
And speedy to boot!
-lx
Can't complain about 100KB/sec. Thanks!
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Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
If you check the readme on Nvidia's ftp server for TNT2 linux drivers, it says that full support for high-intensity games like Quake 3 will be in XFREE86 4.0 =(. Oh, well.
I first got intro'd to Quake last year--QI, running on the gaming servers at work. Before then I wasn't much for gaming--all I'd played was Simm City and Rai Den on occasion. But Quake deathmatching turned out to be (pun intended) a blast! Then last month a friend gave me a burn of QII. I set it up on my box at home, downloaded some anime skins, went online and. . .ooooohhhh, yeah. I decided that the creators of *this* much fun and catharsis had to be rewarded so I went out and brought a legit copy. Meantime I got some of the QIII tests--more beautiful 3D graphics I have seen nowhere! Being relatively new to all this--I never played Doom or Wolfenstein--I guess I'm not yet at the stage where point and shoot is monotonous to me. Still, the next games I wanna try are Half-Life and System Shock II; those seem to have more of a story to them. Too bad about Daikatana though; even now the screen shots I've seen of it look great, though nowhere near QIII of course. And as for QIII--I'm getting the Demo as soon as the servers calm down a bit (if ever ;-)) and when the official release comes out in the stores, I am *there.*
Nobody around here seems to have had any problems having the thing to run on his/her computer. I could not make it with the default drivers installed on my Compaq laptop 1688. Fortunately, the distribution of q3demotest includes a README that refers to the ultimate site for the kind of problems I had: http://www.glsetup.com. From there you can download an installer that will auto-detect your graphics card and automatically download the appropriate driver. Pretty cool stuff indeed. That's the kind of support I like ;)
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Are you listening, Microsoft?
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Your welcome jackass
That's exactly what I wanted to do
Post the wrong link
From MY OWN SERVER !!
I must be EFFIN' brilliant
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