🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:07:06 GMT, nidhal@cwix.com wrote:

>Hi there.  I am running Quake (the first one) and it keeps locking up
>randomly.  I only play it over the internet, so I don't know whether
>that's related.  The screen freezes up and the sound keeps looping.
>Sometimes it unfreezes but usually not.  Another problem I have been
>having is that sometimes the screen will get real fuzzy and blocky, to
>the point that I can't read the scroll thingie.
>
>I am running  version 1.09 of Quake and I am using Glide 0.97.  I have
>a Pentium 133 with 48 MB RAM, and 150 MB of virtual memory. I have a
>Matrox Millenia 2D card, and a Voodoo 8 MB card.
>
>Any ideas on what the problem might be?  I would sure appreciate any
>help you could pass along.
>
>
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sounds like your suffering from a case of net quake lag
get quakeworld , glquake and gamespy

glquake is the opengl version of quake it will use your 3d voodoo2
card, i presume it's a voodoo2 card as you mentioned it has 8mb of ram

quakeworld is a version of quake designed for net play and is much
smother to play on the net . QW has no single player. QW will install
a opengl version of QW called glqwcl.exe

QW and quake servers are not compatible  they use different network
protocols   use gamespy to find net games.

QW will download new maps etc to you if you don't have them if the QW
server is setup to DL the files. it can be a very long process it
better for you if you DL the mod before you try to join the game
popular mods are CTF (capture the flag) and TF (team fortress) rocket
arena 
if your using gamespy you can see  under game what if any mod the
server is running.

if the server is running a mod look for a mirror site close to your
location to DL it from if the quake server is provided by your ISP
they will probably have the files you need locally.