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Ventrilo Help; attn Fub@r
Topic Started: Apr 2 2008, 07:58 AM (152 Views)
warnite
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Thanks again for your patience and help last night Fub@r.

With all the help the admins provide, no wonder Vogon is popular.

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fub@r
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It took us awhile nite, but in the end, all I did was point you in the right direction.
After you realized you had a little brain fart, you figured it out yourself. :rolleyes:
Now we can work on getting your game better, with tweeking your config, so you
connect faster, and load more of Q3, so your framerate is smoother.

:)
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warnite
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lol HUH.........

if you are being serious by all means lets get started :D

does my framerate look choppy?

I do need to clean up my baseq3 folder.

I did see a SS i think dyn posted of baseq3 with only the pk. files.

Mine has the pk. files plus all maps etc. Thats why my game loads slower i guess.
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CROSs
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Where is that SS? I would like to do some cleaning also.

Thx
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There are differing opinion's on the structure of Q3, when it applies to where everything
should be. For Q3 to run properly, and you can tell if it is, but connecting to a server, how long it takes. if your baseq3 folder only has, the baseq3 files, then you will connect
very fast. But over time, you visit other server's, and if those require maps, those map's
are installed, by default, to baseq3. And after you've been to a few, that do need these map's, then you see that your connect time, goes through the roof.
That being said, what I discovered was, that if you move the maps, to the folder that
they are associated with, delete the copies in baseq3, your connect time, will return to
where it was, when you first installed Q3.

What else determines the speed at which you play Q3, is, the amount of hunkmegs you have allocated for it. By default, Q3 assign's 56, which is fine if your playing on server's that use standard maps. But when you play on the other one's, that have map's, those map's combined, in the case of Vogon's MinPak's for FFA and the CTF server's, could be, well over 100 - 500 megs in size. And at the default of 56, its no wonder, you see some kind of lag, frame jitter, and other wierd things happening. Q3 can't load that amount of data at that setting. What you have to do, is increase the size to allow Q3 to load more of the game, so it run's smoother.
The rule of thumb, when increasing the size, is, to divide your Memory/RAM to a third
of your installed amount. My suggestion is, if you half it, you still have enough to run
your OS, and run Q3 (provided your only running Q3) efficiently. And by the same token, if your running other program's, then take that into consideration, when appling the amount.
There are other setting's that you can make, which I'll be glad to help you with, just
ask me, if you see me, on any of our server's.

B)
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