by the way, the instructions from seldzar or whatever his name is in the hacked drivers are completely unintelligable...a translation would be greatly appreciated

He didn't write them I did
a translation of what ?.
What builder do you have ?
if RC2 builder 2128 or higher you need RC2 fix http://pluto.spaceports.com/~compatib/files/Voodoo3_RC2_D3DGlide_Fix.zip

I have build 2183...all my games werk except q3

SHS is right I didn't write them. The files you downlaoded are for RC2 and UP. It works fine however if you need instructions on how to resintall video drivers you really shouldn't be using win2k.
 
Go to device manager select your video card and get the properties of it then select update driver. Choose from a lsit and then click have disk......point it to the folder where you unzipped the files from my page.
Overright files if prompted.

Dose Q3A Crash on you or is graphics mess up ?.
 
I send this up today.
For those with Quake3 Arena & Win2K RC3: Yes it ture the Quake3 Graphics do get bit mess up big time. This seem to help a lot but it still mess up with this fix, extract the older opengl32.dll & glu32.dll from RC2 2131 md c:\temp change over to CDROM drive ?:\cd\i386 expand -r opengl.32.dl_ glu32.dl_ c:\temp then copy over to \winnt\system32 folder

Actually in the voodoo3 files I have on my web site I have the latest 3dfx opengl driver included and renamed to 3dfxvgl.

umm...I reinstalled those drivers, but im still getting the same error!! The error is Q_strncpys: NULL src
Any ideas? Please get back to me...

Here's the whole system message list...maybe you can tell the error from here...
 
Q3 1.09 win-x86 Nov 14 1999
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
c:\q3demoTEST/baseq3
----------------------
 
Running in restricted demo mode.
 
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
c:\q3demoTEST\demoq3\pak0.pk3 (1346 files)
c:\q3demoTEST/demoq3
----------------------
execing default.cfg
execing q3config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III
 
------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
Couldn't set DI coop level
Falling back to Win32 mouse support...
Joystick is not active.
------------------------------------
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'D:\WINNT\System32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 3: 640 480 FS
...using colorsbits of 16
...calling CDS: ok
...registered window class
...created window@0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 16, 16, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): failed
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
-----------------------
Q_strncpyz: NULL src

what are spec of your system "everything".

P3-450, 128 MB Ram, voodoo3 2000, 34 gig HD, soyo 6bva-133 mobo, xitel stormplatinum soundcard...

I found out how to fix this retarded problem. Simply copy 3dfxvgl.dll from x:\winnt\system32 to the quake3 folder and rename it opengl32.dll