[olug] Problems w/Quake 3

[Brandon Lederer]

Good Luck with Q3 on a TNT2.  Let me know how playable it is.

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:19 pm, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> Are you trying to run it out of the box, or with the latest patches?
> 1.32b is at http://downloads.reboottheuser.com/rtu/rtu_sw_pkgs/games/quake3
> if you need it login:movies passwd:video
>
> It shouldnt be looking for anything Glide related since that is Voodoo
> related..........Check the settings under the 'system' section to make
> sure that it's using the default GL driver and not 'voodoo'
>
> > Hi ho,
> >
> > I picked up Quake 3 from Jay's place a few months back... still haven't
> > got it
> > working.  Any help would be great!
> >
> > I'm running SuSE 9.0 w/nVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (32 mb)
> >
> > Quake 3 originally was looking for libglide2x.so (see output below).  My
> > SuSE
> > system has the following:
> > /usr/lib/libglide3-v3.so
> > /usr/lib/libglide3-v5.so
> > which are a part of the XFree86-Mesa-4.3.0 package. I found an older
> > package
> > (glide_v2-2) for SuSE 8.1 which had libglide2x.so.  I installed it and it
> > works, but the framerate is around 2 fps (not playable).
> >
> > Should I even be using this library since I don't have a VooDoo board?  I
> > have
> > the latest Nvidia drivers installed w/3D acceleration enabled, and other
> > 3D
> > games give me good fps w/o libglide2x.so.   Also, Quake 3 worked fine for
> > me on
> > SuSE < 8.2.  So I'm stumped.
> >
> > FYI, libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.2 and libGL.so (symlink to former) were
> > installed in
> > the Quake3 directory.
> >
> > Anyhoot, any ideas would be most appreciated!
> > Eric
> >
> > Ps.  Here is my output before installing libglide2x.so
> > (glide_v2-2.53-138.rpm).
> >
> > ----- R_Init -----
> > ...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf
> > or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> > file or
> > directory
> > failed
> > ...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so
> > from
> > /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot open shared object
> > file:
> > No such file or directory
> > failed
> > ----- CL_Shutdown -----
> > RE_Shutdown( 1 )
> > -----------------------
> > ----- CL_Shutdown -----
> > -----------------------
> > Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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