I find that with host_sleep 0 and my refresh set to 85, it feels much smoother/better, than if host_sleep is set to 1 and I have my refresh set to 72 (to match). And if I have host_sleep 1 and leave my refresh at 85 it's noticably less smooth again. When yousay it make your CPU hotter, do you just mean the difference between pushing out 72fps as aposed to 100fps , or in my case 85fps, or is it something else?

I'll put the copy of the engine I was using, if you download it and run it, you should see what I mean about the sound, you can't miss the difference, how it's done I don't know, I just know it sounds much better to my ears.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/QnD/Files/nglquake.zip
230kb 

the difference in 72/100 cap in Nehahra, the game just runs in a closed loop, burning CPU cycles for no reason at all. In general software terms, this is called CPU hogging and is very bad. By adding a brief Sleep when the game has done all its work for the moment, you reduce the overall system strain significantly.

This also has surprising side effects; with the lower CPU load, the game actually plays faster and more evenly when another CPU intensive process (e.g. vis) is running concurrently.

This sounds strange, but is very easy to verify; normal hogging engines stutter and jerk terribly when another hog process is running. It's a bit difficult to explain why this happens, but it's probably caused by the OS kernel's task (and context) switch logic and depends also on the currently used time slice (usually 20-30ms).

If you feel that the game is smoother with host_sleep 0 on your system, then please use that (that's what the cvar is for). Always use what feels best for you. There should be no other penalty than the higher CPU load.

Thanks for the link, but I already have that engine. 

Yes, you missed me.
No, I wasn't drunk.
No, I don't have ICQ. 

That's the best thing ever. I will give sex to whoever turns that into a screensaver. 

http://humor.nnm.ru/demon/30.06.2005/bolee_100_prikolnyh_koshek/ 

Nice "kitty" photos ! 

You hit the motherload of amusing cat photos =^-^=

This is the best one: http://www.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/humor/demon-1120079870_i_7205_full.jpg 

but all that efforts are for the sake of czg's return. the bastard won't retun to irc, i'm depressed. 

but all that efforts are for the sake of czg's return. the bastard won't retun to irc, i'm depressed. 

I just played sm56_czg yesternight. Damn that man is a genius.

btw have you checked the SDA lately? They have a new whole of quake marathon run there and a terra run too. (just put the pak to a gamedir and put playdemo start or playdemo terra1 and the rest will follow automatically)

Didn't remember the id episodes had so many quite ugly maps... :) 

but it doesn't even got proper breast physics!

It might be cool with ragdolls in a 2d-sidescrolling platformshooter 

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mobile/quake-mobile-screenie-bonanza-110914.php 

oooh yeeeeaahh.... 

Also known as:

ChavQuake(TM) 

Are they just screenshot copyright markups?
In half of the shots, the resolution seems actually quite big! Much bigger than the original's 320x200. 

Can anyone point me to a detailed Quake 3 perfomance tweak guide (including explanations of those video/audio tweak console commands and such)? For the time being I am stuck on a Duron 800 with a GF2 MX and Quake 3 gets pretty damn slow on some maps. 

Cellphone Quake looks pretty good! Maybe we can make a start up company that makes add on packs of levels for it that you can download for a fee!!!!11!11 

Get your lawyers ready, people - because this is only a matter of time.

Did I mention I fucking hate mobile phone "culture" and all the spongers/con-men that make money ripping off kids (or let's be honest - their parent's credit cards) for ringtones and all the other shite?

Oh and yay! someone is finally sueing those fucking Crazy Frog twats: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050629/325/fm9mq.html

Ring-de-ding-ding in-fucking-deed. 

are rather unprofessional to me. When I see mr suit&tie pull out his cell phone after the first 8 bars of the latest D12 single plays I can't help but cringe.

Oh btw, to those of you who DO own cellphones, and go shopping... WHY THE GODDAMN HELL DO YOU PULL OUT THE PHONE SOON AS ITS YOUR TURN TO STEP UP TO THE CASH REGISTER AND PROCEED TO DIAL SOMEBODY AND CONVERSE WITH THEM WHILE I RING THROUGH YOUR TRANSACTION THEN HAVE ME REPEAT MYSELF TO YOU 4 TIME BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T LISTENING? 

YEAH!

I agree with what both of you said.

Why the fuck can't people just use the standard ring that came with their phone?

Here's a question for the people that are keeping the dodgy ringtone people in business: Why do you keep downloading these crap ringtones? Is it to prove how bad your taste in badly programmed synthesised music is, because you are so unaware of where a sound is emanating from you need to have your mobile ringtone personalised, or is it just to highlight what an absolute cock jockey you are (of course, you just believe that it shows what a stand up character you are)? 

Don't own one.


Ring tones:

Worst idea evar. Completely symptomatic of the 1st World's stupidity, shallowness, crassness, and unnerring dedication to wasting time and money on things that are useless and awful. 

Kinn, don't worry, how the fuck is mobile-Quake gonna run Marcher?? 

I never liked them either. Fucking annoying. 

Do own one. Do not own another phone of any kind. Can turn the phone off if required. Do have a special ringtone, so when in a group of people with our phones in the other room, I'll know it is mine that is ringing.

Will not fucking answer the phone in the movies like some tard did two days ago.

"Hi. In the movies. In the movies. Yeah. I'll call you later."

This is the reason why death penalty should be allowed in Finland. Murderers, rapists, child molesters, who cares? Life for them. Just kill the fucktards. 

I'd never buy one but I do have a custom one to be able to tell that it's my phone ringing and not anyone else's. I don't have any polyphonic stuff though just an old primitive phone model and like vigil it's the only phone I have after moving away from my parents.