Added "Why does the game sometimes crash if we callvote to another level while playing CTF?"
Version 0.2 - Dec.29.1999
Added "I'm dropped back to the menu when the server changes levels"
Added "I'm getting stuck at Awaiting Snapshot..."
Added "I'm getting stuck at Awaiting Gamestate..."
Version 0.1 - Dec.29.1999
Initial Release
System Requirements:
*3-D Hardware Accelerator with full OpenGl support
*Pentium 233Mhz MMX processor with 8 MB Video Card
or Pentium II 266Mhz processor with 4 MB Video Card
or AMD 350Mhz K6-2 processor with 4 MB Video Card
*64 MB RAM
*25 MB hard disk space (for minimum install)
*Quad-speed CD-ROM drive
Video Cards:
Quake 3 Arena has been tested on many but not all of the major cards incorporating the chipsets listed below. We strongly recommend running Glsetup
(located in the Quake3\Extras\ on your Quake3 CD). Glsetup is a program written specifically to analyze your hardware and install working OpenGl drivers for
that hardware. The version of Glsetup that is included on the Quake 3 Arena CD is 1.0.0.110, however, it is constantly being updated with newer drivers from your
hardware manufacturers so be sure to check www.glsetup.com often for updates. Currently, Glsetup supports the following cards:
3Dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2, Rush, Banshee, and Voodoo3
3Dlabs Permedia 2 and Permedia 3
ATI Rage 128 and Rage Pro
Intel i740
Matrox G200 and G400
NVidia Riva 128/128ZX and Riva TNT/TNT2/GeForce256
Rendition Verite 2200
S3 Savage3D and Savage4
All known issues with any of these drivers are compiled in a list and located here:
http://www.glsetup.com/ihvs/index.htm
At the present time, Glsetup does not include drivers from hardware manufacturers that are still in a BETA or TEST form. If you are experiencing problems with any
of the drivers installed by Glsetup you may want to try the corresponding link for your hardware below. This is a compiled list of hardware and drivers that we know
work with the game. Some of these drivers may be the same ones located in Glsetup, however some will be a bit newer and could possibly remedy any problems
that you might have. As mentioned above, we recommend running Glsetup before downloading any other drivers.
This is an older generation card and may have some minor visual quality issues as a result. These particular drivers are incompatible with Windows 95. Windows
must be in 16bpp desktop color mode for 3D hardware acceleration to work on these chipsets. Please use the display control panel to switch your color depth to
16bpp if you want 3D acceleration. If you experience problems with launching the display control panel, you may have parts of a older version of the drivers still
installed. Try uninstalling GLSetup and the older version of the drivers, then reinstalling GLSetup.
There have been reported instances of the GeForce drivers on Windows 95 failing to render any 3d. This is a known issue and if you are running Windows 95, we
recommend sticking with GLSetup as it will install older, but working, drivers for your card.
Ati Rage 128 and 128pro
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.atitech.com/ca_us/spdrivers/index.html
The Rage 128 drivers do not run (or even boot) on the original version of Windows95. They do run on Win95 OSR2 and Win98.
Ati Rage Pro
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.atitech.com/ca_us/spdrivers/index.html
This is an older generation card and may have some minor visual quality issues as a result. The Rage Pro OpenGL sometimes fails to load in high resolution mode if
your card doesn't have a lot of memory. If you get a failure to load Quake3, try setting your desktop in a lower resolution mode.
S3 Savage 4
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.diamondmm.com/pg000042.htm
Follow this link and choose the video card that corresponds with the one you own. There are some known issues with these drivers and the Quake 3 Tools.
Intel i740
Glsetup has the latest drivers for this card. You can download Glsetup free at
www.glsetup.com
3dfx Voodoo 3
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?PAGE=V3Drivers
There are several different areas to choose from on this page. Follow the link that corresponds to your video card and operating system. There are some known
issues with these drivers that 3dfx is looking into. There are also some compatibility issues with these drivers and the Quake 3 Tools.
3dfx Voodoo 2
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?PAGE=V2drivers
We recommend downloading and installing the reference drivers located on this page. Follow the link that corresponds to your operating system. You do not need to
bother with the Mini Gl located on that page. There are some known issues with these drivers that 3dfx is looking into.
3dfx Voodoo Graphics
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?PAGE=VGDrivers
We recommend downloading and installing the reference drivers located on this page. Follow the link that corresponds to your operating system. You do not need to
bother with the Mini Gl located on that page. There are some known issues with these drivers that 3dfx is looking into.
3dfx Banshee
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?PAGE=VBdrivers
We recommend downloading and installing the reference drivers located on this page. Follow the link that corresponds to your operating system. You do not need to
bother with the Mini Gl located on that page. There are some known issues with these drivers that 3dfx is looking into. There are some known compatibility issues
There are some known issues with these drivers and the Quake 3 Tools.
Rendition Verite 2200
The latest compatible drivers can be found here:
http://www.rendition.com/usersupport.html
We have seen some display flickering problems with these drivers. If you are experiencing problems with these drivers, we recommend completely removing all video
drivers, rebooting, and reinstalling them.
3Dlabs Permedia 2 and Permedia 3
The latest drivers can be found here:
http://www.3dlabs.com/drivers/index.html
The Permedia 2 will only run in vertex lighting mode, so many graphical
effects are missing.
Trouble Shooting:
If you are having any problems, read this first!
If you are using a config file from an older version of Quake3, we highly recommend that you remove it and make a new one with the current game. Older config files
can have settings in them that may cause adverse affects within the release version of Quake3.
I have A3d sound enabled and and when I change screen resolutions within the game Quake 3 crashes
This is a known issue that we are looking into. If you are experiencing this problem we recomend that you avoid changing the screen resolution while A3d is enabled.
You can disable and enable A3d in the Setup->System->Sound menu.
I am experiencing technical problems with some of the Tier 4 maps
The Tier 4 maps are the largest maps and therefore require that largest amount of RAM (memory). If the game is crashing or not loading any of these maps, there are
some solutions you should try. First, we recommend turning light maps off and running in vertex lighting mode. You can do this by entering "Setup" α "System" α
"Graphics" and setting "Lighting" to "Vertex". Second, you should turn the sound quality to "Low" within the "Setup" α "System" α "Sound" menu.
I have a TNT, TNT2, or TNT2Ultra and I am experiencing frequent lockups within the game
There could be a number of different things causing this. Make sure that you have run Glsetup (located on the Quake3 CD in \Quake3\Extras\). We know that the
drivers included in Glsetup, in most instances, will work very well with these cards. In addition, make sure that your system is getting plenty of ventilation. We have
gotten numerous reports from users that have remedied their lockup problems by simply moving their PC to better accommodate airflow. You might also want to
purchase an internal fan for your system and make sure that the fan(s) that you have a working properly. We have been seeing some issues with all three of these
cards on Windows 95 systems. The TNT on a Windows95 crashes intermittently and other times can run incredibly slowly in 16bpp mode. Changing the display
depth to 32bpp sometimes fixes the performance problem. We have seen instances where the GeForce drivers on Win95 may sometimes fail to render any 3d. If
you experiencing any of these problems, you might try the link to NvidiaÆs drivers listed above. One last issue that we have been getting reports on involves the TNT2
and TNT2Ultra on Intel LX chipset motherboards. It appears that there is a compatibility issue with the two resulting in frequent lockups. There is no known
workaround for this problem.
During a game, and on the victory screen, my name is cut off on the list of players
This is a known issue that we are planning to address.
Is there any way to disable the "MouseLook" feature?
This is a known issue that we are planning to address.
When I choose "Multiplayer" from the main menu there are no servers listed
First and foremost make sure that you are connected to the Internet or a LAN (local area network). If you are, check the filters located at the top of the screen. If
you are wanting to play a LAN game, make sure that you have "Local" selected under "Servers:". If you want to play an Internet game make sure that you have
"Internet" or "Mplayer" selected. You should also make sure the "Show Full" and "Show Empty" filters to ON. This will add all of the full and empty servers to your
list.
When browsing through the Player Models menu I get an error saying "Low Memory"
By default, Quake3 will only allocate a certain amount of your RAM (memory) for loading player models. This statement just lets you know that you have reached
the capacity of that allocated space. However, if you have more than 64MB of RAM in your system, you can change the default amount space allocated thereby
increasing the potential to load more player models. To do this, bring down the console using the ~ key (located in the top left-hand corner of your keyboard) and
type:
\com_hunkmegs X
Then press Enter. X is a variable for a value that you will enter. For instance, if you have 128MB of RAM installed on your system you might want to replace X with
a value no higher than 96. Always leave at least 32MB of RAM out of the total amount you have for other operations. If you have 64MB of RAM in your system,
leave the setting at its default. The change to com_hunkmegs will not take effect until you restart Quake3.
When playing a multiplayer game, sometimes there is a short pause, then I see my character dying
This is actually a system that we have implemented to load the character models of players that have entered the game. When playing on the Internet, frequently
people will join into the game after you have. The small pause is Quake3Æs way of loading all of the models of those players into your game. It may seem like this
process is killing you, however the game waits until you are killed, and at that instant loads the other models. This is usually an extremely fast process as quite often
you will still see your death animation after the models are loaded (just and indication that you have missed very little while loading the models). You can manually
force the game to load all of the new playermodels at any time by simply pressing the TAB key. Be warned, this will cause the same slight pause, so it is unwise to
use this procedure in the middle of combat. If you do not want this process to happen at all, you can set the "Force Player Models" option to "On". You can find this
option in the "Setupα Game Options" menu. This will show all other players in the same model you are playing. This is a memory saving option and will increase the
speed of the game on slower systems.
When I try to run Quake 3, I get the error "could not initialize OpenGl subsystem"
You need to make sure that you have an OpenGl compliant video card, and the latest drivers installed for your particular card. Make sure to run GLSetup
(located on the Quake3 CD in \Quake3\Extras\) to get the latest drivers for your card installed.
I am getting an error stating "No response from master server" or "Awaiting Authorization"
There could be several reasons that you are getting this message. This can usually be remedied by resetting the "Defaults" in the "Setup" menu, and then reentering
your CD-Key.
I am getting the "CD-Key is in use" message
There have been some reports from people have problems with their CD-keys. If you are getting ANY denial message from the Authentication Server, be sure and
check to make sure you entered your CD Key correctly. There have been several reports of problems that were solved when the CD-key was reentered correctly.
In addition, you MUST enter your CD key in lower case letters. We do not recommend that you enter the key within the console. The message, "CD Key is in use"
is a generic denial message, and does not mean that someone has stolen youÆre your CD-Key. For your own safety, never send anyone you CD-Key. Nobody at ID
will ever ask you for your CD-Key information without you having contacted us first. Once again, keep your key safe. There are some programs that are
circulating around that claim to be CD-Key generators. These do not work. Most of these programs are infected with viruses that will send your key to anonymous
email accounts, thereby making your key invalid. We have also been seeing some issues with GameSpy compatibility. If you are having CD-Key problems and are
using GameSpy, discontinue use with GameSpy and use the in-game server browser within Quake 3.
How do I enable Multiprocessing Support (SMP)?
Quake 3 Arena does have support for multiprocessors (SMP). In order to get the benefits from SMP, you must be running Windows NT 4.0 and have a compatible
video card and driver combination. Right now, The Detonator drivers for the TNT and GeForce generation of cards are the only ones that are working properly. To
enable the support, bring down the console with the ~ key and type the command
\r_smp 1 Follow this command with
\vid_restart
I am having problems with my mouse and the mouse-wheel
Make absolutely sure that you have the latest drivers for your mouse installed. There are several known issues that are cleared up by simply installing the latest
drivers.
For the IntelliMouse on a Win9x operating system we recommend these:
How do I get the two side buttons on the IntelliMouse Explorer to work in Quake3?
If you have a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer and want to get the two new buttons on the side to work in Quake 3, try the following. First, make sure that you have
installed the latest IntelliPoint drivers from Microsoft (version 3.0). Once the drivers are installed, open the control panel, choose mouse, and click the buttons tab.
Do not change the settings of the first three mouse buttons. Instead, set the side buttons to an action key. For instance, set the large side button to the F2 key. To use
the large side button in Quake 3 simply decide the action that you would like the key to perform and use the keyboard equivalent of that key in the control menu. It is
very important that you use the keyboard equivalent within the menu and not the actual mouse button
How do I improve the Frames-Per-Second on lower end machines?
First off, we always recommend that you run the game at the 640*480 resolution. Playing the game at a resolution of 640*480 or lower will always speed
things up quite a bit. Turning down the graphics settings in the game can also significantly increase the speed of the game. To adjust the graphics options enter the
main menu and choose Setupα Systemα Graphics. We recommend using one of the predefined graphics settings at the top of the menu. Setting the "Graphics
Settings" tab to "Fastest" will be the fastest configuration you can get and will give you the best performance of the game. Setting the "Graphics Settings" tab to "High
Quality" will make the game better looking, but also slow it down quite a bit. You should also try changing some of the settings within the "Setupα Game Options"
menu. Setting the following options will help speed things up.
"Marks on Walls" off
"Ejecting Brass" off
"Dynamic Lights" off
"Identify Target" off
"High Quality Sky" off
"Force Player Models" on
When I try to play a team game with bots, they will not follow my directions
This is remedied by removing any characters that are not a letter or a number from your "player name". For example if your name is "~cooldude~", change it to
"cooldude" and you should be able to control your bots. We are fixing this in an upcoming release.
I'm dropped back to the menu when the server changes levels.
This is usually due to having new content like new maps or model in your baseq3 directory. This is a known problem and will be fixed in the first update. The current
solution is to remove any new content from your baseq3 directory.
I'm getting stuck at Awaiting Snapshot...
A number of problems can cause this to occur. Make sure you're not running with an old q3config.cfg file from the demo. Play from a full install of the game and not
from the CD. Finally, lower your texture quality and turn on force model, or set geometric detail to low.
I'm getting stuck at Awaiting Gamestate...
A number of problems can cause this to occur. This is not related to problems with Awaiting Snapshot. We will address this in later releases.
Why does the game sometimes crash if we callvote to another level while playing CTF?
In version 1.11 of Quake3 the game will crash if players try to run a CTF game on maps not designed for CTF. Do not perform a callvote requesting a map change
to a non-CTF map without changing the game type first. Before changing maps always make sure you have the correct gametype set.
g_gametype 0 ¡ Free For All
g_gametype 1 - Tournament
g_gametype 2 ¡ Single Player
g_gametype 3 ¡ Team Deathmatch
g_gametype 4 ¡ Capture the Flag
This crash will be fixed in the first point release of the game.
Fixed Bugs and Added Features 1-7-2000
Store CD Key in a seperate file
Shrink Icons on scoreboard and do away with staggered heads
Voting can change gametype if current map does not suppoprt current game type
Server list shows ip address
possible team uneven measures? (as in L-Fire CTF) Prevent team join, prevent capture, prevent flag pickup
Add team overlay location colors
Server Browser: Could we remember settings for "Show Full" and "Show Empty" ? They are reinitialized every time. I like to see *ALL* servers and it's
redundant to have to click those two buttons every time
New scoreboard. Minor positional adjustments to default score board when clients hits more than seven, the scoreboard goes into compressed mode and
interleaves the players head models/icons.
Fixed health color display bug on team overlay
Changing gamma causes a crash
Spectators can now go through doors. A spectator only teleport is created on each side of the door that teleports a spectator to the other side (spectators
on q3tourney4 will love this)
fixed drop shadows also showing up on ground with gap
bots should NOT use the personal teleporter when carrying a flag (except
fixed bot_minplayers, kept loading bots during intermission because
changing ctf strategy randomly if the game is 'stuck' for too long
Bots have both agressive and passive ctf strategies
fixed recalculating item area even if item didn't move
added flag status icons to the hud, displayed as:, flag icon -- at base, empty colored square -- flag taken, grey colored square -- flag dropped
fixed resetting rush base away time when flag returns
fixed bots defending dropped flags
fixed team leaders not giving 'orders' to themselves
fixed removing double quoting in chat, tchat and print messages before
Keybind INI files are broken
Fixed Gamestate/Snapshot issue for modem users
don't play denied sound if team mate picks up the powerup
g_teamAutoJoin (default off), sets it so players automatically join a team on connect
g_teamForceBalance (default off), forces it so that the spread between the number of players on a team is no more than two. Player will be disallowed to
join a team with two or more players than the other.
added callvote nextmap, and display available callvote commands if usage is incorrect
adjusted maximum width of team overlay down
added g_needpass serverinfo so remote browsers can determine if a password is needed
Team scoreboard needs to overlay a colored team background on the scoreboard to clearly show team divisions
added the ability to set g_password to "none" which means no password. This makes /rcon g_password none work
fixed width problem for names on the team overlay
team scores displayed on scoreboard in spectator mode
team scores are now correctly updated and displayed when joining game in progress
dead player displays crossout for weapon instead of missing texture on team overlay
Fixed scores so that only the flag carrier gets five points for capturing. Team members do not get a bonus--the entire team gets a capture point. This was
the originally indended scoring for Q3.
Fixed it so that you get the aggressive enemy bonus for fragging a player who hurt your flag carrier (it had an 8 millisecond timeout, oops)
Add g_doWarmup to allow warmup countdown timer on all game modes. This helps out in clan matches, since they can do a restart and get a fair
countdown (as opposed to a random map_restart that is abruptive). This also gives people with slow load times a fair chance
add g_doWarmup to callvote so people can vote in the warmup option
Player is ALWAYS shown on the scoreboard, dropped at the bottom if player wasn't shown in the top scores
drop ctf flags when player activates personal telporter (you can't take it with you!)
don't draw crosshair in spectator mode (names are still drawn however). Crosshair is drawn when following a player.
empty servers should show by default on the server display list
adding game cvar tracking so that cvar changes made in mid game are told to all clients. The following cvars are tracked: dmflags, fraglimit, timelimit,
added the ability to select the position of the teamoverlay. Updated the game options menu to make the new positions available. I find I like it much more in
the lower left [doesn't interfer with chat text.] Available positions are: cg_drawTeamOverlay 0 ¡
added 'teamoverlay' to userinfo. This allows the server to determine if the client has the team overlay display on and only send the team information if
needed (turning it off saves some bandwidth)
made positions on team overlay static--takes the top eight players by score and puts them in client order (so they won't switch positions on the team
overlay)
made location strings left justified in team overlay
Added IP banning. Similar to Quake2 method. Two new commands addip _mask_ and removeip _mask_. The ban list is saved in a cvar called g_banIPs.
g_filterBan controls ban direction (default value of non-zero means everyone is allowed to connect, except thos
teleport spectators to other side of door trigger brush when the door is Not open
Display 2D player, flag, ammo and armor icons if draw3dIcons is off in status bar and on scoreboard (so all 3D icons are replaced by 2D version if
cg_draw3Dicons is off)
fixed bug where bots stand still not reacting to anything, not even incoming enemies
added new individual CTF AI
fixed team AI when base flag is gone
fixed bots ignoring your commands if your name contains certain non alphabet characters (like . / ~).
added ctf task preference for human players
don't start kill, hitnokill, or hitnodeath chats when there are nearby enemies
Add new cg_drawIcons cvar, turns off all icons (2D or 3D depending on setting of draw3dIcons
don't start chatting when using a powerup
Denied no longer sounds on same team pickups
dropped items can fall out of the map or stick into walls. dropped items should use player clipping
If a callvote passes with "map _mapname_", the game will keep the value of nextmap the same. This allows a player call vote a map change without
upsetting the map rotation
Screenshots broken in Q3, restarting exe causes game to overwrite 001 etc
delay deferred model load until after death, and after client presses fire to respawn
"No team_CTF_redflag in map" is no longer fatal
Weapon Switch Issues: I'm still getting double clicks when I run out of ammo on the lightning gun or plasma. I'll have the fire button down, it runs out of
ammo, it clicks, I let go of the fire button, press down, it clicks again
Fixed up flag on flag carrier player model, made it stop rotating while being carried
CTF Flag destroyed by nodrop areas
s_khz 44 broken
Right justified the team overlay
default shader fix
com_hunkMegs now works properly, com_hunkMegs has a minimum value of 56 for standard gameplay and 1 for a dedicated server connecting to a pure
