[quake2] quake2 vsync & q2max044.

[Nelson Marques]

Use the 16bit pack, but in options make sure you have set it to use 
8bit... read the docs, it's clearly there...

nm

philip murray wrote:

> If the larger maxpack.pak is 16bit and the smaller one 8bit then i'll 
> stick to the 16bit one as it should be better i think. but for the 
> sake of tinkering i tried to load up q2 with 3.7mb maxpak.pak and then 
> switch to 8bit but it just gives a blank screen which i exit via 
> ctrl+c and this is left in the console:
> "Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2
> I: got 8 bits of red
> I: got 8 bits of blue
> I: got 8 bits of green
> I: got 24 bits of depth
> I: got 0 bits of alpha
> I: got 8 bits of stencil
> Using hardware gamma
> murray at zippy:/mnt/special/Games/fps/q2_files/q2_game/quake2_max$  "
>
> if i just replace the 16bit maxpak.pak with the 8bit one it gives the 
> error:
> "Error: Missing Particle Picture: particles/beam.jpg"
>
> i cant find the config.cfg file for quake2max, the vanilla quake2 one 
> is in ~/.quake2/baseq2 easy enough, any idea where the q2max one might 
> be, or if there is a command-line entry to set 8 or 16bit. oh, and i 
> do have all three 8/16/24 depth modes available in xorg.conf.
>
> But, i doubt getting q2maxpak sorted out will stop it from randomly 
> crashing, so i was really hoping someone might know what to do about 
> the panning flicker in q2non-max. or are there any other alternative 
> q2max-type engines available that work in linux?
>
> Thanks,
> Philip.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Nelson Marques <nmarques at netvisao.pt>
> Reply-To: quake2 at icculus.org
> To: quake2 at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [quake2] quake2 vsync & q2max044.
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:02:35 +0000
>
> You need to set 8bit texture on I think to use that pack... read the 
> docs but I think that's the trick...
>
> NM
>
> philip murray wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying top get Q2 to work on my Slackware 10.2 box (i'm trying to 
>> get the whole q1-q4 series running, but q3 & q4 are *too* easy to 
>> install  :oP  ). I'm using the icculus quake2-v0.16.1.tar.gz file. i 
>> have followed the readme file & successfully got both the vanilla & 
>> q2Max versions working in separate directories. well mostly.
>>
>> the vanilla version suffers from annoying 'almost-flicker' when 
>> panning/strafing which would probably be solved by enabling vsync, 
>> but i cant find out how to do this. i just think this has always been 
>> an issue with q2. i cant find any command line to do this in the 
>> config.cfg, nor within the nvidia-setting program, googling also 
>> didnt get any answer.
>>
>> the q2max version went in fine also, although the maxpak.pak from the 
>> q2max-0.44 doesnt seem to work, it gives the blaster.jpeg missing 
>> error, i tried placing it both in the main baseq2 directory & 
>> /home/.quake2/baseq2 directory as suggested, but neither worked. but 
>> the one linked within the 0.16.1 readme file seems to work ok, and it 
>> is a bigger file (3.1mb vs 1.7mb). the q2max just seems a bit flakey 
>> & crashes out at various times, sometimes doing the retpeat terminal 
>> spew which needs a ctrl+c to kill.
>>
>> i'd like to just fix the vanilla q2 version, if any suggestions about 
>> the q2max version are forthcoming i could try them too as maybe q2max 
>> is the best way to escape the strafe flickering.
>>
>> here's the command i use to start it (both versions);
>>
>> LD_PRELOAD=libGL.so.1 ./quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver 
>> libGL.so.1 +set _windowed_mouse 1
>>
>> Oh, and is there a mailing list archive as I'm probably asking simple 
>> questions that have been answered before (sorry if i am), but i cant 
>> find one on the icculus/q2 website, because i could traul it for 
>> answers too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Philip.
>>
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