I've been having a minor problem with Quake 3: After playing for about 10 minutes or so, the game will lock up and the only way to get out is to hit the reset button. I have a P-III 500, 192m Ram, 20gb WD hard drive (ATA/66), Diamond Monster II 3D (Voodoo2 chipset), ATI Xpert@play 98, using W2K 2195 Pro Final. This is something that has just started happening. The only thing that I've seen was a reference to turning off "flare" on the NTCompatible 3dfx page but whoever wrote it had rather poor english (no offense intended) and I couldn't find anything in the Q3 setup about flare. This occurs whether I'm actually playing or if I just have the game open; about 10 minutes into it and it locks up. This is just a kinda annoying problem. I really like the overall performance of W2K; I'd hate to have to go back to Win98 just because of this.

[This message has been edited by TymbrWlf (edited 11 February 2000).]

sorry i can't help, but i thought i'd let you know your not alone. my system also uses a monster2 8mb version w/ an ati rage pro turbo chipset 2d card. i have the same problem. maybe it has some thing to do with the ati voodoo combo?

rick johnston
cedar ridge, ca

p.s win98se works fine

changing pci slots seemed to help, but didn't solve it completely.......now i can sometimes play for 20 minuites.......>;-0

(i used pci slot 1)

newbie freak

This may sound odd, but if you have A3D audio enabled on your system it can serverly f up your game play

i think you must edit the the q3config.cfg
in the baseq3 dir (if the cfg look weird -> start edit from a dos box).

In my config is the following value:

seta r_flares "0"

I hope it helps you