(And itis possible that the problem is something trivial, like our port isnit looking for them wherever youire putting them.)
Mods? There are mods? Where are you putting them? How do they work? What are these "mod" things anyway? Seriously, tell us where to find and how to use the mods youire trying and weill see if we can figure out whatis wrong with them-weive never used any, but weid love to make them work if they donit already. The most common problems are configuration problem such as trying to use a partial install, or data files which havenit been upgraded with the v1.17 patch, or a bad "q3config.cfg" configuration file which sets some option that isnit correct for this version. If you pull up the system console (youill find the Console application in Applications:Utilities), youill see more information that might help us determine whatis going wrong. My screen turns orange or yellow, but nothing else happens! Whatis wrong? Press "Find.", and tell it where your top-level Quake3 folder is (not your baseq3 folder, but the folder which contains it). We used this configuration file with this demo file on a Dual G4 with Quakeis SMP support disabled (r_smp = 0), a ton of memory (half a Gb), and had the display set to 16bit color ("Thousands of colors") in both System Preferences and Quake3.Įnough about performance already! Quake3 says it canit find its levels.
(We did experiment with native code and yes, that did make things faster yet, but this time around we released without native code.) No, weire using Quake VM byte code just like everyone else. Isnit this port 20% faster because youire using native code while everyone else is using platform-independent VM code?
Iim sure weill see a bunch of more authoritative benchmarks from third parties soon.) (And hey, that 20% number wasnit meant to be a promise, it was just the results we were seeing in our tests. Good question! Perhaps your video card isnit supported for OpenGL hardware acceleration under Mac OS X? Send us mail with more details about your configuration (processor and video card) and about exactly what is slow (low number of frames per second, or lots of lag in net games, or what?) and letis see if we can figure out why itis slow for you. I thought this port was supposed to be 20% faster than under Mac OS 9! So why is it so dog slow? Among the highlights, The Omni Group has seen performance increases of up to 20% over the OS 9 version. The version is not a "stand alone" application, and requires users to have a previously installed version of Quake 3 Arena 1.17 for the program to work. The OS X wizards at The Omni Group have released an OS X native version of Quake 3 Arena for use with Beta.