First post, by Necrodude
Hello and welcome to the #Quake2ToTheMAX tweaking and overclocking competition!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PldaM3mY_84
This is a tweaking and overclocking competition that aims to squeeze out as much performance as possible out of the classic Quake 2 game.
The purpose of the competition is to get as many fps as possible in the demo.dm2 map in the
“timedemo 1” mode. The winner of the competition will get a 3DFX Voodoo2 3D accelerator card.
We will send the card to the lucky winner.
Hardware rules:
Any Pentium II cpu, or any super socket 7 cpu.
Pentium III 450 mhz slot 1 cpu.
This means the original Pentium III 450 mhz Katmai cpu. ONLY the 450 mhz version.
Slot 1 Celerons, and socket 370 Mendocino Celerons up to 533 mhz are also allowed.
If you don’t know what a Mendocino Celeron is, check out this link:
https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Celeron/ ... cino).html
Coppermine and Tualatin Celerons are not allowed.
Athlons, VIA, P4 and all the newer stuff are not allowed.
You can use ANY graphic card you like up to DirectX 7.0
Here is a list of DirectX 7.0 cards
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?directx=7.0&sort=name
Here is a list of DirectX 6.0 cards
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?directx=6.0&sort=name
3DFX Voodoo5 and newer 3DFX cards are banned. The reason for this is that Voodoo5 cards performs like crazy in Quake2, and they are also crazy expensive.
Sound cards and network cards are mandatory. You should be able to play your Quake2 with us on our game nights.
We don’t have any other hardware rules (except cooling solutions – read further down).
You can have any motherboard, RAM, mouse, hard drive, SCSI controller, and so on.
It is only the CPU, GPU, sound card, and network card that have rules.
Air and water cooling solutions must be done at normal room temperatures.
Sub room temperature cooling is not allowed. So forget chillers, Peltiers, L2N, phase change coolers (compressors).
You are not allowed to have your computer outside in the cold during winter when overclocking.
Regular room temperatures are required. 😀
(Hotter temperatures is allowed, but it won’t help you)
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Overclocking/BIOS tweaking:
CPU overclocking is allowed. You can and you probably should overclock the shit out of your system.
You can overclock your Graphics card, Ram, bus speeds as much as you like. No restrictions.
You can tweak/hack your BIOS as much as you like. No restrictions.
This is a competition about getting the most FPS. So do your worst!
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Software rules:
The operating system must be Windows95, Windows98, or Windows Millennium.
Your tweaked version of the game must work with the operative systems above.
Custom made clients that only work if you have KernelEX or similar is not allowed.
The game must work with a regular Windows version.
You can tweak, hack, tune the operating system and you software in any way as much as you like. No regulations.
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Quake2 rules:
Quake2 version 3.20 or compatible. The game must work with OUR Quake2 3.20 server.
You can tweak, hack, tune Quake2 in any way, as much as you like. Get the best drivers. Customize your Quake2:s cfg file. Craft/get you own DLL:s. Compile new exe:s. The game is open source. Do your own texture packs! Use crazy plugin tools that boost your FPS. The sky is the limit!!
ANY tweak made and earlier published by me is not allowed
The rules are that you should be able to play with us on our servers, AND that the game is playable. You must be able to see and hear the game. Keyboard and mouse must work.
The sound must be working. Cracking and lagging sound is not allowed. You are allowed to lower the quality of the sounds. You can replace the sounds with new ones if you like. But the sounds has to somewhat resemble the original sounds. When playing, the new sounds need to work with the gameplay. A rocket launcher needs to sound like a rocket launcher. A machine gun needs to sound like a machine gun. The game CANT SOUND like Hello Kitty or like it´s played on a PC SPEAKER.
Ambient sounds and music does not need to work.
You are allowed to tamper with the textures as much as you like, but the textures MUST somewhat resemble the original game. Textures must be turned on.
To clarify:
PINK walls and NEON GREEN floors are NOT allowed.
One colored walls and floors with colors that resemble the original game is allowed.
The HUD must be visible. You need to see how much health you have, and how much ammo you have and so on.
Lower FOV:s (field of view) than FOV 90 is not allowed. You are not allowed to change the view size. We will not accept submissions with a small viewport. So it is full screen or nothing
640 x 480 is the lowest allowed resolution.
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So tune up you Windows 9x operating system, overclock your graphics card ram etc.,
And tweak the shit of Quake2!
Get the highest possible score in:
Timedemo 1
Map demo1.dm2
All tweaks, hacks, tuning must be explained to us.
All drivers, tools, plugins must be explained to us.
All cfg:s, dll:s, exe:s, texture packs/custom pak files must be submitted to us.
If you do custom a executable or DLL, we need the SOURCE CODE. – no exceptions!
We want to know your computers specifications. CPU/GPU/motherboard/graphics card/ram speed.
We want to know how much you overclocked it, what you overclocked. And so on.
We want to know everything! 🙂
To submit to the competition, download the Submission Template from our ftp. Put this in your regular File Explorer:
ftp://ftpbraindrainlan.sytes.net:21005/SubmissionTemplate/
Copy the “SubmissionTemplate.rar” to your computer.
In the submission Template file you will need to specify stuff about your computer, and you will need to send copies of your config files and other hacks/tweaks/dlls:s/pak files etc.
You will also need to do a small youtube video with hearable in "game sound" ´.
In the video we want to see the following:
To start, we want to see the inside of the computer, then we want to see the monitor of the computer where Cpu-z and and the device manager or similar program that shows the graphic card.
Then we want to see at least two benchmark runs.
After the runs are completed we want you to connect to our Quake2 server
To connect type:
"Connect braindrainlan.sytes.net" we just need to see that you can play online with us.
We have three reasons why we want to have all the tweaks and information sent to us.
First we need to validate the tweaks. We need to see that it is working. I am giving away a 3DFX Voodoo2 card from my personal stash. So I want to be sure that the submission is legit.
Second. We are working on "speed pak/patch" for Quake2 that will be published after the contest is over. We will probably call it "Quake2toTheMAX"
Third. We seek knowledge. We always want to learn new stuff.
When you are done with the template, rename it to your nick name and send it to our submission FPT.
Host:
ftp://ftpbraindrainlan.sytes.net
Port:21005
Username: bdsubmissions
Password: quake2tothemax
Notice that the PORT is 21005
You will not see any files on the submission FTP even when you send over your version of the Template. There will also be a couple of error messages because your FTP-client will try to list files, but you dont have that privilege. Let us know when you submitted so we can check that nothing is corrupted or broke.
For more info about the competition enter our discord server
https://discord.gg/A9rPnjyZ
The competition ends the 15 of March 2024
May the force be with you!
The winner will be announced shortly after.
