Timedemo won't work and Protocal 45

[old.[wreck]wink_182]

k I have just upgraded my Graphics card from a Voodoo 3 to a Creative Geforce 2 MX and after re-installing Q3 I am having two problems.

The first is that when I try to run a demo from either the demo screen or via the console it just goes straight back to the option screen (where it says single player deathmatch etc..) and won't work, I wan't to do a timedemo with the "\timedemo 1" command you see.

Now the other problem I am having is that I cannot play online. I waited 3 hours while I downloaded the latest point release 127g and it still says
"server uses protocal 45" and doesn't seem to connect.

Can anyone help me

Cheers

 

[old.[NC]Sturty]

Umm ...

Make sure the cd is in when trying the timedemo, and you need 1.17 not 1.27.

 

[old.Requ!em]

The demo menu in Quake3 1.27g is 'broken', the timedemos have also changed so comparison with older results isn't really an option.

timedemo 1
demo demo127

Will bring up the new 1.27g timedemo, if you wish to try a CPU stress or Texture stress timedemo for Quake3 1.27g then see the Framerate and Visual Tweaks section of the guide at the foot of this post. You'll find Team Arena and Quake3 1.17 CPU or Texture stress demos in the same section for comparision.

Quake3 1.27g also disabled texture compression by default so you'll need to re-enable it manually. It's also the case that 1.27g is ~10 to 15 FPS slower than 1.17 on average but there are a few extra tweaks you can use to regain some of that lost FPS.

Try the Best Visual/FPS Compromise config file in the Framerate and Visual Tweaks section of the guide at the foot of this post. It works extremely well with the GeforceMX's dual rendering ability ( z buffer can be different than colour depth )

Quake3 & Team Arena Guide - http://ucguides.savageuniverse.com/Quake3/AquaQuake3Guide.html

[Edited by Requ!em on 27-12-00 at 17:50]

 

[[DAD]Monty73]

I know this thread is probably really old but...........

I am new to Q3 and I have downloaded the 1.32patch and when I connect to games listed in All Seeing Eye I get a "This server uses Protocal 68" message

What am I missing or doing wrong?

 

[[DAD]Monty73]

p.s.

Allowdownloads is set to 1

 

[Chameleon]

I suspect it's a simple case of the server being still on an older version. For some bizzare reason there STILL seem to be servers out there running 1.17, 1.27 and other variations on the theme. I'm not a fan of ASE so cant say for certain, but certainly in gamespy, the server information box in the bottom right lists certain details about the server, including the version it is running. You can also filter the server results to only include servers running the same version as you.
Try a BW or Jolt server and see if the same happens mate. Also, to be sure, when you load q3, look at the version number that comes up, just to make sure you did patch it all ok to 1.32.