Why quake 3 doesn't Work ???

Last days, I downloaded Quake3.exe on Os4d?p?t. I installed Quake 3 on my PC and tranfered it to my amiga. during running the game, it stops and nothing eles after that .... Bug ??

@pseudaxos

Stack size?
Free ram?

@LiveForIt

Free ram = 451 MO
Stack size = 32768

@pseudaxos

I've never played the game, but others have it working. A few things that I know:
- You need the full Quake 3 game; the demo version doesn't work (is any particular version required?)
- The port was an alpha/beta release and is buggy. For example, it's known to lockup in the menus

Hans

@Hans
I've got the Full Game.
On AImpact' s Forum they said that it was bugged too..

@pseudaxos

Your stacksize is way too small, you need like
Stack 1000000.

@LiveForIt
Stack 1 million or 100000 ?

@pseudaxos

Stack 1 million

Thats 1Mb of stack.

@LiveForIt
OK. I'll tell U if it works better.

@pseudaxos

I told you in French it was buggy and it is still buggy in English

@K-L
OK OK KL.... Excuse lol .
I tried to put 1 Million in stack but no nething happened. So a question arrives to my mind . Why do they let a prog on os4depot if it doesn't work ??
So the thing i'm going to do ----> play Quake 1 like KL invited me a few hours ago !

@pseudaxos

Since Amiga OS4 Final July update, Quake 3 works for a few seconds here so don't bother trying to make it work and have fun with GL Quake

@pseudaxos

Just tried quake 3 here now,online. Worked fine here. Tried just a minute or so though!

@pseudaxos

Open a shell and dir to the Quake3 drawer

Add the stack in the shell

Run Quake 3 from the shell

It does work here. I can play it but as people say its buggy. Whenever you think... maaaan it works ok then craaash :)

EDIT: I also use the latest updated version of the game (patched on pc)

@Kicko

At least under Update4 I must say that on my A1 it was pretty stable, I have finished the game and during this time it has crashed only one or two times in total. Previously I had many stability problems due to wrong vcore settings.

I have also first installed the game on a PC, but before I transfered it to my A1 I have updated it to the latest version available, as suggested on an amigaworld.net thread, maybe that could solve your stability problems.

Varthall

@Varthall
Yes, I've done it but no, nothing

@pseudaxos

As has been pointed out numerous times by both Thomas and me, the Quake 3 port is buggy and is "if you're lucky it runs"-ware. The source code is available, anyone is welcome to try and fix it.

EDIT: Having said this, as usual, I cannot reproduce half the problems that people seem to have with it... It runs here, including mods like Urban Terror etc.

@Rogue

Quote:

Woah.. you're playing Urban Terror? coool.. It was my favorite game for a long time (and i also for a long time i didn't find the time to play it :-/ ) .. maybe we can meet some day at a server and see who's better :-p

But first i have to try to get it running again on my A1 .. thos damn time constraints... sigh...

@Rogue

now this is a weird thing indeed on my A1XEG4 it runs for hours and hours without issue i have 1 gig of ram amigamaniac also has 1gig of ram in his A1 and his also runs fine with Q3
maybe 1 gig is needed ?

also i noticed if i have the cygnus x11 stuff installed i have to dissable this in the user startup to run Q3