More on that wierdness with FitzQuake: It goes away if a .lit file is present. Darn strange. It's almost as though the engine's attempting to apply a coloured lightmap without actually loading one.

I'll have to try reinstalling and see what happens. 

hmm...

so it's a consistent problem with that map? Can you send me the bsp? 

No .lit == psychedelia (especially Menk)
.lit present == everything's fine

Which makes me suspect something's broken somewhere else. I have upgraded to DirectX 9.0b after all.

Another bit of evidence for same is in E1M2 - things look all right until I get that super shotgun, and pow! rings of wild colour. And always the same pattern every time.

Damn it, I got coding Arcane and forgot. I'd better clean up my Quake dir and see what happens. 

DirectX 9.0c is out. 

I don't think FitzQuake (or any other Q1 engine) uses DirectX for any rendering. They all use the OpenGL API. I also have FQ 0.75 suddenly painting strange coloured spots on the walls in some maps (nothing psychedelic though).

Fatty: I didn't get before whether the issue is completely FQ isolated or other Q1 engines also expose the same behaviour? Any difference window/fullscreen or bitdepth -bpp 16/32? Any complaints in the console at startup regarding video? 

But it's always a good idea to check out the latest drivers. 

has just released a q3 map with phenomenal brushwork, he'll probably post news here sometime but till then, check it out :

http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/028120.html? 

I was looking at some of the works of fantasy artist, Jeff Easley, when I chanced upon this rather familiar face:

http://www.jeffeasley.com/popups/color/co031.htm

Just for comparison:

http://www.trilobite.org/doom/graphics/cacodemon.gif

I wonder if Easley got any money out of that? 

till you get caught. 

Yes, I'm going out in an hour when the local best buy opens to be a nerd and buy my copy immediately.

Yes I'm also worried about player speed and fear it'll frustrate me to the point that I'll dislike the game, which would be a shame. Mainly because I'd have to go and retool all the gameplay mechanics when I mod it to make them more quake-like. :P 

Lun, having played through the game some more, yes you can have variables carried over between maps (hazaa!) 

Boy, does this fuckin' game ever like to crash.

non: oh good 

I�ve got ahold of Doom 3. All excited, I installed it and fired it up. After 5 minutes my machine locks up. I reboot, try again, same thing. Then I notice that the fan has falled of my video card (Creative GeForce 4 Ti4200) causing it to overheat whenever I run a 3D app for longer than 5 minutes. The fan is unfixable. I curse. I curse some more and then decide to put my old video card (Creative GeForce 1 DDR) back into the machine to see whether that would help.

I install the video card, boot the machine, adjust some settings, fire up Doom 3, get surprised with the fact that it does, in fact run (a GeForce 3 card is stated as the bare minimum requirement for the game) and in 10 minutes... a lockup. In some disbelief I take a look at my PC case which is open... you guessed it, the fan on my GeForce 1 DDR card is not rotating... With lots of bills I have to pay and the shittiest GeForce 4 cards costing at least 80 euro, I guess I won�t be playing any games for quite some time... 

Fallout 3
Really short answers.. why did this dick even say yes to the interview?
http://www.telefragged.com/interviews/fallout3/

Doom 3
Sound design, ANSWERS!
http://www.telefragged.com/interviews/doom3/ 

are you saying that you think Doom3 caused the failure of the Gf4 ti4200?

or was it just bad timing? 

I say it�s bad timing. 

Might be old news, and I'm sure scampie doesn't give a toss, but hey. http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116699&cid=9876519 

Unlikely to be old news, given it was only posted today 

And; "Amidst all the various Doom ports and expansions"

Predictable, but nice to know anyway (yes I'm aware that that sentences was highlighted on shack too) 

not old news, but I'm sure we all saw it coming 

Make sure the GF1 is actually dead, fans are cheap, I used to have the fan die on a P120 all the time and it never killed it for good.

Guess it'll work on GF2, but Win98 isn't changing anytime soon... I don't want only a PC with XP ever, maybe NT? I know machines I've used with NT were fast, fast, fast ... I'm talking P2 450/NT > 2GHz/Win98 fast. 

Right, but we didn't know WHEN it was coming. This is cool to know. 

What about Win2K? 

He usually makes pretty good stuff. This on is called "Spill The Blood", apparently a Quake CTF remake.

Site

http://www.planetquake.com/quakerx/

The 2 screenies on the front page don't look to bad</1>

Info and Download

http://www.planetquake.com/quakerx/spill.htm 

Crisp, well detailed, strong lighting...

Bit heavy on the red and blue colour scheme though :P


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