Quake 3 Arena Problem

Post by **G_Money29** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:30 am

please help me, i really want to play quake 3 arena, i have windows XP, a pentium 2 400MHZ processor, and an ati 3d rage pro 2x (its on-board (on the motherboard)) and when i try and run the game a blue screen comes up saying a whole bunch of stuff, then the last message says "Q_strncpyz: NULL src" what does that mean, what do i have to do to fix it, please help me

thanks in advance

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:00 am

From what I can find, it's an opengl issue. Have you updated your video driver? Do you know if your video card supports opengl? If not you may have to get one that does.

Post by **G_Money29** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:06 am

i don't know how to update, its on board, but i think it supports open gl, its a ati 2d rage pro 2x

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:21 am

This is the closest I could find.

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def ... olderID=27

The instructions for updating are in the Release Notes link a couple of lines below the download link.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:24 am

I would make a restore point before installing them also. Just in case.

Post by **G_Money29** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:57 am

none of those drivers work, wtf

Post by **axbaby** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:40 am

your video card must support the opengl standard ,yours does not.. directx support for quake3 is not enough ..directx video for quake3 is not used ,,directx for sound is.
if it's a laptop your screwed .. if it's a pc computer you have many upgrade choices depending on your budget.

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Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:57 am

axbaby wrote:your video card must support the opengl standard ,yours does not.. directx support for quake3 is not enough ..directx video for quake3 is not used ,,directx for sound is.
if it's a laptop your screwed .. if it's a pc computer you have many upgrade choices depending on your budget.

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Hmmm, guess I read wrong. Seemed the 3d Rage Pro 2x supported OpenGl. Though just barely.

edit: saw this in the description.

Quote:
Drivers will be available for all corporate operating systems and APIs, including Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 5.0, Windows 95, Memphis, OS/2, MacOS, DirectX, OpenGL, Heidi and QuickDraw3D. This allows support for 3D applications such as SGI's Cosmo Player VRML 2.0 browser, which ATI will bundle with ATI products.

http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/1997/4041.html

My mistake.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:03 pm

You can get a computer for $300 that will run Quake3 very well on max settings.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:07 pm

Or a new video card for $50. 400 MHz is fast enough to run Q3A (but just barely, though).

Post by **SoM** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:26 pm

^misantropia^ wrote:Or a new video card for $50. 400 MHz is fast enough to run Q3A (but just barely, though).

i used to run q3a on a 366mhz celeron and it was fine, only prob was my voodoo2

Post by **G_Money29** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:24 pm

well, i had quake 3 arena, b4, i had the demo, and i downlaoded something i forgot, i think it was some opengl thingy or something, maybe an engine? and quake 3 arena worked but it was going slow as crap, and then i uninstalled quake 3 arena, now i installed it back agaain, but i forgot what it was that i downloaded

Post by **bork[e]** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:32 pm

well, try this config: download

Go into C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\ and rename or delete the q3config.cfg file that is there...then move the one you downloaded into the baseq3 folder.

Load the game and type the following in the console:

/cg_drawgun 1
/cg_drawstatus 1
/cg_draw2d 1

Then just bind whatever else you want to it and see how it run then...

Post by **SoM** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:34 pm

no offense, but get some computer classes

Post by **Cooldown** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:42 pm

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