Quake III on a G5

placeboplacebo
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I got a copy of Quake III arena recently, and it isn't OS X native, so I can only play it in classic. And when I play it in classic, the audio is choppy and delayed. And when I used this update (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...iiiarenax.html), Quake bounces a couple of times and crashes.



What is wrong?

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    cybermonkeycybermonkey Posts: 604member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Placebo

    I got a copy of Quake III arena recently, and it isn't OS X native, so I can only play it in classic. And when I play it in classic, the audio is choppy and delayed. And when I used this update (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...iiiarenax.html), Quake bounces a couple of times and crashes.



    What is wrong?



    If you get the latest patch you can play it in X nativly.

    Its choppy cos your playing it in classic which is basically just an emulation of system9.

    Download the patch and just copy the files into there relative locations in your quake3 install folders.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    So what did that update do? (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...iiiarenax.html)
  • Reply 3 of 10
    cybermonkeycybermonkey Posts: 604member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Placebo

    So what did that update do? (http://www.apple.com/downloads/maco...eiiiarenax.html)



    That update just added and extra game to the original, what you need is the Point file, which will let it run correctly in X. you can get it from most apple download sites just do a google for it or try ftp.idsoftware.com

    I think the last one is the 1,32point release.
  • Reply 4 of 10
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    So where can I find that patch? What would it be called?
  • Reply 5 of 10
    cybermonkeycybermonkey Posts: 604member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Placebo

    So where can I find that patch? What would it be called?



    Go to ftp.idsoftware.com, or versiontracker and look for quake 1.32point release. I think its still on apples site.
  • Reply 6 of 10
    cybermonkeycybermonkey Posts: 604member
    heres the link



    idsoftware



    the actuall package is called quake3-132.pkg.sit
  • Reply 7 of 10
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    So I just run the patch?



    (I have dialup, so I want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing before I start a 29 MB file)
  • Reply 8 of 10
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    How do you play the Q3A demo in OS X? I don't own the full game, just the demo, but it looks like the OS X patch available on Apple's site is for the full retail version only.
  • Reply 9 of 10
    placeboplacebo Posts: 5,767member
    I have the full version.
  • Reply 10 of 10
    zapchudzapchud Posts: 844member
    Try this patch too, if you want the best possible performance out of Q3:



    ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/qua...cTest2.pkg.sit



    Yup, Q3 with altivec-support (and recompiled with GCC 3.3 for G5). Gives a minor boost on G4 systems at least.
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