Daz' game reviews in Other PC Games reminded me of the 'borked review scale' discussion: 5 games, scale from 0/1 to 5, worst game rates 3.5 ;) 

thats cos all the games were good :) 

Im trying to download Rygels massive uberiffic replacement texture pack from the shub-hub, and ive downloaded "rygel-dp-texturepack ultra.pk3.part1.rar"

(ive replaced one of the hyphens with a space so it's shown in its entirety^^)

How the hell do you open this file? Or if I downloaded the other two bits (of three) it seems almost as if I'd be supposed to stick them all together? 7zip is what I'm using, and when I try to extract the above file, it churns away for about 2-3 mins, as if decompressing the files, and then gives an error message :-( 

You need all three then 7zip will automatically do it properly.

Just download one of the smaller ones, they also run much faster and look only marginally "worse". These textures are really a matter of taste anyways. 

Earlier today I stumbled across http://eerie.anarxi.st/sourcequake/

based on:
Original Win/GL(Quake|QuakeWorld) source code by John Carmack http://www.idsoftware.com/
Enhanced Win/GLQuake by Bengt Jardrup http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k
Excellent FitzQuake by John Fitzgibbons http://www.celephais.net/fitzquake/

primary goal of this project:
create fast and stable developers/mappers engine with fixing lots GL rendering bugs all in one.

While I did not succeed building it on Linux it might help you. 

die 

http://pjw.planetquake.gamespy.com/grafix/doingitwrong.jpg 

do any of you guys know what (besides bad memory or busted HDDs) can cause seemingly random lockups (no STOP screen, no restart, just the sound loops and nothing responds)?

nothing appears in the event log so i can't track it down, and i've done a memory test with memtest86 and checked all my disks and nothing has turned up. 

Thanks, but purely for my own education, I'll implement the SDL parts from scratch. Maybe I'll look at other ports afterwards to optimize things. 

the last time, it turned out my BIOS was corrupted, I would recommend checking with the manufacturer (visit to the website should suffice, if its the case). I discovered the BIOS that came stock on my system was one that was outdated and never intended for my rig. 

btw 

Apart from bad memory, the other most likely cause of seemingly random crashes and stuff is probably the power supply.

Have you recently added any hardware? Is this a new machine, or just a new problem on an old machine? 

http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=66 

And god bless us, every one. 

 

it's a new problem with an old machine. my psu is new though, 620 watt.

i was talking to some other guys and they were saying it could maybe be a driver problem. is there a way to track drivers in use to somehow see if one is causing problems? 

...shhh...*ouch 

I had constant hangups and deadlocks like you describe plus some random BSODs. I got a random tip to check out what voltage settings my RAM preferred, and found out that it didn't like being run on the default voltage and liked it a bit stronger. I turned it up and haven't had a problem since.
- Anecdote. 

Interesting, I have the same problems, how did you find what voltage settings your RAM prefers? 

Czg and Bal

put your tongue on it!!! 

if burn it... is ok if not put more voltage... 

again.

http://www.lunaran.com/page.php?id=9

more anachronistic than useful at this point. 

Since Quake2 gameplay doesn't employ much strategy, weapon choice is not a heavy issue, and the weapons don't demand much in the way of it anyway. -Lunaran, ca. 2000 C.E. 

bit late, but I don't care. czg is a cunt. 

Distrans, I sent you a mail in mid december to the usual address. Did you not receive it?