I've had that problem. Check your sound drivers. they were killing me.
Also make sure you aren't 'sharing' any interupts.
Nom
The Vortex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Summet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: [expert] Quake III doesn't work with XFree 3.3.6 OR 4.0??
> Hello all,
>
> I've been trying to get the Quake III demo working on my system:
> Dual PII 333 192mb
> Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
> SoundBlaster AWE 64
> Mandrake 7.1 install (with XFree 3.3.6 initally).
>
> I downloaded and installed the Q3Demo and everything appeared to go ok
until I
> ran it. When I did, the sound was very choppy, and the mouse would barely
move.
> I had to press the tab key 5 times to get down to exit and hit return
(took it
> about 2 seconds between moves.)
>
> I figured it might be GPM, so I killed gpm off, no difference.
> I figured I may as well try upgrading to XFree86 4.0 so I did so
(downloading
> directly from XFree86.org) and had the same problems. Then I noticed the
> XFree86 4.0 mdk.rpm on the install CD, so I erased my current setup and
used
> that to upgrade to 4.0, same problem.
>
> (X windows is working correctly in all cases other than the Q3Demo
problems
> outlined above.)
>
> It appears that my version of Xfree doesn't matter, and I was wondering if
> anybody else had fixed this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
>
