Resulting in awfulness. If you run a listen server and play with bots, you might get away with shoving sv_fps up to something silly like 72 (default is 20). 

cheers. Highly recommend arrested development too.


blackdog,

thanks, I'll try that although I have no idea what you mean. 

OK, after some initial hassle with my new computer, I finally was able to get it to work. I reinstalled Doom3, and holy fucking hell this game is awesome when you can actually run the game with high settings and all details turned up. I think I played for about an hour in my room alone in the dark before my nerves got shot. I love this system. Holy moly. 

anyone know if there's any command to imit the max fps like in quake 3 ? It *seems* to vary the player speed depending on whether you're getting 100 or 300 fps in an area. 

I think I played for about an hour in my room alone in the dark before my nerves got shot.

It is the one game I would have to space out my playing for a few hours at a time not out of boredom but, as you so well put it, because 'my nerves were shot.' 

Heheh, I went throught the exact same thing 3 months ago :) Btw, the gameplay and visual design quality also pick up quite a bit after Alpha Labs... 

hey, does anyone know where I should buy the original Quake (1,2,3) boxes? Also, are there any special versions of these that possibly include them all?

Like the Special Quake4 Edition, that had Q2 + the two expansion packs....

or am I left to buy (download only) from id's website? 

Purchasing Quake 1 or Quake 2 retail by themselves is pretty much impossible these days. However if you are lucky you can find a package that contains all 3 Quake games, I have no idea what it's called tho. Sorry that I can't be of more help. 

I saw it on Ebay a few months back. All of the expansion packs included.

My niece found my old Quake disk while on a cleaning spree of her room this past winter, and she wrapped it up and gave it to me for my birthday. What a sweetheart.

Armagon and DOE are still MIA, though. 

I have a boxed Quake for use with Macintosh laying around here. The box looks identical to the PC version except there is something like "for mac" written on it. I don't need and thus I am willing to sell it if you want. It is in a quite used condition though =)

Ultimate Quake is Quake 1-3, yes. But just in a DVD box...

For Quake 1 + 2 there are bundled boxes with the official mission packs.

For more info try a look here: http://2fb.net/idm/modules/wiwimod/ 

So, basically, your niece gave you as a birthday present something you had already bought before yourself? 

a gift that she had originaly borrowed from me a few years ago and she had lost as well. 

Many, many years ago when I was still in high school, my sister -- my nieces mother -- was in the Navy stationed on the West Coast. My sister sent mum a floral bouquet for Mother's Day. I happened to be the only one home when they arrived and I promptly switched out my sister's card with one of my own and gave them to mum as a gift from me.

The dastardly deed wasn't uncovered til many months later. 

It looks like when we move, I'll be getting a nice slim LCD monitor. Is 8ms response rate okay for a gaming machine?

(I think 8ms translates to a max refresh rate of 125 fps, and I'm thinking having a max of 60-75fps would be ideal.) 

I have recently got a philips 190x6 which is an 8ms screen. So far I have no issues with it (apart from finding a dual dvi cable but that's another story) and I've tried many games. 

LCDs work in a different way. CRT monitors refresh the entire screen X amount of time per second, where X is your HZ value. LCDs only update the pixels that have actually changed. This is the reason LCD don't "flicker" as CRTs and a 60 Hz refresh rate on an LCD actually looks better than a 75 Hz refresh rate on a CRT.

As about responce rates: it all depends on your monitor. There are 12ms LCDs out there which can be used just fine for gaming and there are also 8ms LCDs which are complete crap. I would suggest picking a few options and then spending some time reading reviews and searching forums before you make the purchase.



HOWEVER: If you are a "serious" competitive gamer, you can simply forget about LCDs as no amount of $$$ you will throw at it will fix the advantage a user of a good CRT monitor will have over you.

All LCDs have a built-in additional delay that varies from model to model. Lets say you have an LCD with responce time of 8ms. This means that every 8ms the monitor checks if any pixels have changed and if they need to be redrawn. However, it takes 15-30ms for video data to actually ARRIVE from the computer to the monitor.

So basically, due to your low responce rate of 8ms you see no ghosting, as your screen updates fast, but the data according to which the screen updates itsels comes in at a delay of 15-30ms. In a competitive gaming enviroment, this is life or death. 

I'm trying to run a batch conversion process on a bunch of images in PS. I want to convert them to the Q1 palette and then save them. However, PS likes to automatically append "copy" onto the end of a filename, so "bw_bricks.tga" becomes "bw_bricks copy.tga". How do I stop it from doing that? 

I switched to using twin LCDs yesterday, one 8 ms and 4 ms screen for gaming. There is definitely a sharp drop in playability for fast-paced shooters, as whenever you move or turn quickly the screen turns to blurry mush. I also tried gaming on the 8 ms screen, and that felt like having some kind of visual impairment.

Though I suppose gametypes other than FPS are less demanding on the monitor performance, I still think whoever believes that LCD screens are suitable for gaming are lobotomised mongoloids. Get a CRT. They are cheaper, faster, have more accurate colours, and don't suffer from dead pixels. 

since I played around with PS. I don't recall that being a problem, and I did a lot of conversions when I found the massive library of textures at the Kingpin site. In fact, I believe that problem only occurs if in your action you save inside the same folder. 

Maybe try saving the files to a different directory... If that doesn't work use some batch renaming app once you are done to remove *copy*. 

there should be options for how to generate the file name with lots of possibilities. In PS CS (first one at least) it's in the batch dialog s long as you choose destination "folder" or "save and close". 

http://www.screenz.de/medien/tutorials/screencast-nr7.mov (7mb .mov)

in german, but you get the idea :). It's all in the details... 

Thanks everybody. Save and close option works, but selecting "folder" and choosing a different folder did not. I don't understand why it wouldn't since that's the logical option to try. 

It actually doesn't save any changes at all. How utterly useless. ^_^ 

Please.