Err yes, a 9700gt. its a graphics card =) 

You must be mistaken there somewhere. 9700gt videocards do no exist. Or is this some obscurely rare ATI Radeon card? Because I am 100% sure NVIDIA never had one by that model name. 

You probably mean an NVIDIA 7900GT? :) 

all the links for my website changed thanks to gamespy (or something),
and they also messed up the auto redirect so it takes you to the wrong place...dont care about the details. all i know is,

anything that used to be:
http://www.planetquake.com/underworld

should now be:
http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/

new domain examples:
http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/index.html [main page]
http://underworld.planetquake.gamesp...rev060426.html

once you goto the new main page everything should be the same anyway.
if you find any broken links let me know by email. 

eventually they should fix the auto-redirect thingy so that all your links you have on your websites to my reviews etc should auto-redirect to the new URL:

http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/index.html

you could update your own links to my site/reviews if you wish to be sure. 

are being used in a tourney:

http://www.quakeworld.us/?a=home&news_id=88&tourney_id=3

I modified just the item placements, so they're still true to the originals. More people will now be able to enjoy the major goodness that is a Fribbles map! 

pretty legendary maps there, haven't loaded a fribbles map in ages.

also, inertia... you seem to be up on your Quakeworld, so I've got a question for you. I'm working on a high-res idbase texture pack, so I'm trying to get the pack complete for a load of maps, in SP and DM. What are the most commonly played idbase maps in Quakeworld? Please don't tell me DM3 :)

Currently the only DM maps i'm working on are Aerowalk (is that still played even?), Aggressr by Tyrann (only because I love the look of it) and your map Slipstream, heh.

Cheers. 

dm2, dm4 and dm6 in DM. dm3 and e1m2(?) in TDM. I think.

Starbuck, do you know Randy's great textures? http://qexpo.quakedev.com/booths/randy/18.html I don't remember if the base textures were included, if they are not then you should contact him (#qc in irc.anynet.org). They are fantastic in my opinion. 

DM3 and Aerowalk are without question, the most played idbase maps in QW. 

allows you to manually set your GPU fan speed according to use.
that's possible with ATI, too.

One thing if you get an ATI card: DONT INSTALL THE CONTROL CENTER! Get ATI Tray Tools instead. Simpler interface, more functions, less memory, etc. 

DONT INSTALL THE CONTROL CENTER!

I agree, even if your are administrator, your are not allowed to open it !! A shame !!!

Now how can I remove this fucking control center without breaking all my ATI DirectX9 functionality ? 

DONT INSTALL THE CONTROL CENTER!

I agree, even if your are administrator, your are not allowed to open it !! A shame !!!

Now how can I remove this fucking control center without breaking all my ATI DirectX9 functionality ? 

.. for double post :/ 

Thanks. So basically DM3 and Aerowalk then. I'm surprised there aren't any more custom maps that get a play. Spirit, you mentioned quite a lot of maps that aren't idbase... did you mean e2m1 instead of e1m2?

I checked out those textures by randy and I've seen them before. He has a lot of skill, and those are nice textures for the most part, but it's not really similar to what I'm doing. I'm not doing any normal-mapped/specular stuff, just the 32-bit high res textures... and my main concern is to make them fit in with the original textures as much as possible, and to try and do as many of them as possible :) 

My guess for maps played in qw for 99% of the time:

1on1:
dm2 dm4 dm6 aerowalk (ztndm3 skull)

2on2:
dm2 dm6 (dm4)

4on4 (the real thing):
dm2 dm3 e1m2

(dmm4 aim practice:
end povdmm4)

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only dm3 and aerowalk seem basish. And dm3 is mostly that pink basewall. Misaligned. By Romero. :) 

dm3 is hideous. Improving the textures isn't really going to undo the damage, either, but I'll do it for completeness :) 

Starbuck: I just thought you asked for id1 maps. Ignore that part of my post ;)

Good luck with your texture work! 

http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Inform%207.html

Inform is an IDE for making interactive fiction (text adventures.) I've never made one before but I've played a fair amount of community-released IF. It's a scene comparable to the quake mapping/modding scene, in the sense that the user-made stuff often meets and surpasses the quality of the pro stuff, they actually make their own tools, they have archives and review sites, etc.

Anyway, the main feature/scourge of this new version is their natural language interpreter for programming. This is actually pretty frustrating to use for a programmer like me, but might actually be good for non-programmers (since the target audience is writers, this makes sense.) 

necros: where does ne_dust2 come from and is there an "original" zip file? 

you have that?! :o

i think it was for a speedmap session where the theme was parody (the map is the layout of the CS map cs_dust2).

i don't remember why it wasn't named under the regular speedmap filename... maybe i was late and submitted it after the session was over in the thread or something... that was a while ago. lol 

Well, I rezipped it and it's at Quaddicted now.
You don't have your zip anymore? :D 

that's really interesting. I wonder if such a thing exists for Lucasarts style adventures, and how easily one could do something like that on his own, seeing as you'd have to make all the necessary character sprites and paint all the backgrounds.

If I were more 2D artistically inclined that seems like the kind of thing I'd enjoy. 

There are systems that support graphics, but I don't think anything that sophisticated. Ideally you'd merge the graphic capabilities of something like Flash with the world modelling and interface logic of Inform. Components of Inform are open-source, so it might be possible to add a renderer and a bunch of routines suitable to be called from within the story file. Sounds like a significan amount of work, though. 

Spirit, I just uplaoded it for you, you can download it here

http://www.users.on.net/~jihuston/files/ne_dust2.zip

Let me know when you got it, so I can remove the file. thx 

Talk to gibbie before you go through with this. Last I checked, he was sitting on a complete Doom3-compatible idbase set.

Metl: neat!