Quake 3 crashes / triggers screensaver

Post by **hillie** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:59 am

I bought Quake 3 for Mac and installed it, and then installed the Quake 1.32 point release for OS X from the iD ftp site..

Runs great, except it would appear that the game crashes quite often, and often times seems to have a looooooong delay in starting up where the screen goes blank.

Also, it always triggers the screensaver when you run the game..

Any ideas? such as maybe settings that maybe are causing the crash? I'm using 1024x768 with everything turned on (except simple items) and com_hunkmegs to 256 (i have 1280mb RAM).

Also wondering.. What's the missionpack mod? i get a white screen when I try to switch to it in the Mods menu. I get the same when I try to switch to Team Arena.. (i suppose because I don't have it installed)..

I actually have a Windows copy of Team Arena.. is there anything arch-specific in team arena or can I just copy stuff over to my mac quake3 dir?

Sys specs:

Dual 1.8ghz G5
1.25GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
OS X 10.3.8

Post by **NCG_Mike** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:01 pm

I copied the files over for TA from the PC and it works fine.

Post by **nyxs-uk** » Mon May 02, 2005 5:53 pm

delete the q3config file, a new one will be generated which will have defaults which should work. Or just delete it totally then ONLY install the OS-X patch & copy the pak0.pk3 file to your newly created baseq3 folder. (i'd do the second if i were u)

re crashes , they are almost certainly due to some other program your running at the same time (q3 is one of the most robust 3D games out & it is invariably due to something else using resources that q3 wants.)

eg my athlon only every crashes q3 when im ALSO running 2 versions of gtk radiant as well as winamp, firefox & gaim.