Rev, memtest.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

|MG| Memtest86+ 4.00 Download , I for the life of me cant remember much about this test other than it requires a 3.5" floppy that works,and since I run short on giving a shit about 3.5" floppy drives,this was never really any useful to me. It's a well documented memory tester, and Javi said to run the test in 256 mode. I guess im Javi's secretary now haha, that fokr. All for helping you though, its worth it homie.


My suggestion (after the memtest86,as suggested by javi) though, is to download this app ( PassMark PerformanceTest - PC benchmark software ) , and as the individuals tests are run,you can just wait and see which one makes your PC go nuts and then go from there. If you reveal no problems,then it could be a video card issue, which could be as simple as turning off some feature that Qrack has, that ProQuake doesnt, if its an Qrack only relating problem.

[rev]

thanks man, i do not own a 3.5 floppy drive either, so that won't work for me.. right now it's a proquake problem, haven't tried qrack yet, guess i'll do that now. i want to say though that this all started when i installed proquake 4.00 zeta.. might try going back to 3.99 when i gte the time.

[Baker]

thanks man, i do not own a 3.5 floppy drive either, so that won't work for me.. right now it's a proquake problem, haven't tried qrack yet, guess i'll do that now. i want to say though that this all started when i installed proquake 4.00 zeta.. might try going back to 3.99 when i gte the time.

What's not working or going on here? Video card issue?

I don't see any info, but if you are having some kind of problem you might try DX8 ProQuake (download)

The differences between ProQuake 4.00 and ProQuake 3.99 almost exclusively relate to map download. But here is 3.99 anyway: http://quakeone.com/proquake/src_old...81201_2259.zip

[eieio]

if i remember correctly, you an run memtest from a burnt cd. you have to burn it as a bootable cd and change bios to boot from cd. im sure there are instructions floating around the net somewhere.

[=peg=]

In case auto-map-download gives trouble:
- Make sure you have the .dll's that come with proquake400 in the same folder as the .exe
- set cl_web_download to 0 to disable it

or to actually use it:

- set cl_web_download to 1
- set cl_web_download_url to a valid URL like "bigfoot.quake1.net/" (<-- mind the trailing "/")

Keep in mind, that auto-download only works when the client can find the needed map on the given URL.
For a complete list of maps that can be downloaded either automatically or manually see Index of /maps
Also make sure that your firewall is not blocking glpro400.exe.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

if i remember correctly, you an run memtest from a burnt cd. you have to burn it as a bootable cd and change bios to boot from cd. im sure there are instructions floating around the net somewhere.

I forgot about that, but I always was like 'an entire cd-rom?fok' , but the problem was , shortly opening Quake (and , when fighting near water?) , Rev's PC reboots.

I was thinking that the client is calling for a feature that the video card either did support, and has since went bad, or a feature that has just become buggy on the particular hardware. There is also the possibility of a memory chip going bad,but not completely scrapped yet.


Testing of newer games could be imparative to say whether its isolated to Quake,or if its across multiple games. If a newer gamer runs flawlessly with no reboots, but Quake continues to be doing the same shit, I'm leaning less torwards a hardware issue,as a newer game should bring about a higher load and demand on all the system components,as compared to Quake.

[rev]

sorry baker, didn't mean to throw out the negative proquake vibe, i'm confident it's not pq now. that's just the only major change on my computer that i made at the time this started happening. though it ran for a long time perfectly.

mindz, no game (excluding solitaire and the like) has ever run flawlessly on this computer. i might try putting the monitor on the on-board card this weekend and see what happens. if that doesn't work i'll just do what i did last time, wait a few days and pray it goes away.
it went away on its own last time, then i did a lot of defragging and disk cleaning this past weekend and here it is again.

one other thing, the first time this happened(about a month ago), i let single player demos run their course and i think it did it once. this time, so far, it hasn't done it in single-player. or i could be wrong and it hasn't happened in single player at all, can't quite recall. and the problem occurs in qrack also, almost instantaneously.

[rev]

a couple other things... sorry, i really want to get this fixed. anyway, water has nothing to do with it, it doesn't seem to happen when it's only 1 or 2 other people besides myself on the server, the wife put IE8 on the computer recently (accidentally she claims), uhmm... i'll post more as i remember/find out.

[eieio]

format c: \q\s

Well at least reinstall quake. I had a really weird issue where something in my quake got corrupted somehow. Redownloading quake and reinstalling fixed it. Don't who what happened or why this fixed it, but it did. Worth a try anyway. Only takes a few mins. Just make sure to back up all your cfgs.

[foq]

That' an ISO file. You don't need a floppy drive to use Memtest. Get a program that lets you burn bootable ISOs (there are many, CdBurnerXP is one) and burn it to a blank disc. You should be able to boot off of it.

Now if you're going to use CdBurnerXP, you actually have to click on the ISO burner when it starts up. You can't just burn an ISO file on a data disc; it won't work.

[rev]

thx

[metchsteekle]

Deamion tools can just open it right on you computer if i remember correctly

[Mindf!3ldzX]

That' an ISO file. You don't need a floppy drive to use Memtest. Get a program that lets you burn bootable ISOs (there are many, CdBurnerXP is one) and burn it to a blank disc. You should be able to boot off of it.

Now if you're going to use CdBurnerXP, you actually have to click on the ISO burner when it starts up.You can't just burn an ISO file on a data disc; it won't work.

must be an echo in here, heh,and about burning ISO's as data discs, okay captain obvious hah. And on another note, it originally functioned soley off 3.5" diskettes, and its completely a waste of a cdrom,even if the cost is >25cents. If you can make the cd/dvd rom bootable,and skip finalization step so you can add shit later, then its all gravy.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Deamion tools can just open it right on you computer if i remember correctly

Memtest runs in its own enviroment, think of it like a fancy windows98 bootdisk that instead tests memory. It's designed to fit on a 3.5" so I always considered it inferior,considering I havent utilized a 3.5" floppy drive in easily 6-7 years or longer, and have always opt'd to pull them out even if they do work,thats another hard drive bay

[foq]

Waste of a CD? You can get a 100 pack of Memorex CD-Rs for $14 shipped. Less than 8 cents a disc.

Honestly I'm more worried about the waste of space caused by even having a floppy drive, the added work of hiding away the ribbon cable and the power cable for the floppy drive, and the time it takes to use a floppy compared to a CD.

Who would want to leave any sort of bootable disc open to add more stuff later? Seriously, I would rather pay another $.08 to get a fresh disc than dick around with adding more stuff to my memtest disc.