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First post, by feipoa

Posted on 2012-12-15, 02:56

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How do you run the Quake III Areana timedemo? This is a pretty common question asked in many forums but I can't seem to get it working. It seems you are supposed to type this in the console:

timedemo 1
demo demo001

but the system just repeats back to me,
UnnamedPlayer: timedemo1
UnnamedPlayer: demo001

When loading the game, I select Q3DM0, then "I CAN WIN". I have the resolution set at 1280x1024. If it matters, I am using Quake III Arena in NT4 sp6. I installed point release 1.32. Thanks!

EDIT: It seems you need to enter the console before you go into the game. Press ~ at the game startup menu. Now when I type the above, it says it cannot open Demos/demo001.dm_68. Where do you find these?

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Reply 1 of 7, by SquallStrife

Posted on 2012-12-15, 03:12

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Those don't seem like the right commands, let me fire it up and check.

Edit: OK, commands are:

\timedemo 1
\demo four

The leading backslash makes it a command instead of a chat message.

I think demo001 related to the shareware version or something? "four" is what's generally used.

Edit2: Also, it will insert the backslash if you hit tab to autocomplete the commands themselves (e.g. timed[TAB] will autocomplete to \timedemo)

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Reply 2 of 7, by feipoa

Posted on 2012-12-15, 03:34

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SquallStrife wrote:
\timedemo 1
\demo four

Yep, that did it!

What is a decent framerate for a K6-III-450 at 1280x1024 (non-3dfx)? I get 33.0 fps. This is about what I got in Quake II at 640x480. Why does Q3 seem so fast?

Is there any way to put Quake 3 it into software mode?

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Reply 3 of 7, by mwdmeyer

Posted on 2012-12-15, 03:49

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No software mode for Quake 3 only OpenGL.

I get about 35fps on a K6-3-400 with a Voodoo 2.

Pretty sure that it uses 3dnow, which helps a lot.

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Reply 4 of 7, by F2bnp

Posted on 2012-12-15, 03:58

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The latest patch only includes Demo004 (I think it deletes Demo001 and Demo002 for whatever reason). Make sure to also type these before you run a timedemo:
s_initsound 0
snd_restart
disconnect

Reply 5 of 7, by noshutdown

Posted on 2012-12-15, 04:00

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why not just choose and play demo from the game's main menu(after setting timedemo 1)?
and i invite you to test my demo in this thread:
introducing my quake3 benchmark demo

Reply 6 of 7, by noshutdown

Posted on 2012-12-15, 04:09

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feipoa wrote:
Yep, that did it! […]
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SquallStrife wrote:
\timedemo 1
\demo four

Yep, that did it!

What is a decent framerate for a K6-III-450 at 1280x1024 (non-3dfx)? I get 33.0 fps. This is about what I got in Quake II at 640x480. Why does Q3 seem so fast?

Is there any way to put Quake 3 it into software mode?

i guess you havn't set quake3 to high image quality, and your quake2 score is a crusher demo rather than a simple "demo01" demo.

Reply 7 of 7, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-12-15, 05:40

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feipoa wrote:
Is there any way to put Quake 3 it into software mode?

r_allowSoftwareGL 1, then go disable directdraw acceleration. Then, watch your framerate plummet to 4spf 😀

Q3A usually goes around 30fps in busy scenes on a Pentium II 300, so a K6-2 450 scoring in that area should be normal. I squeezed 37fps out of a PCX2.

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