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Quake II

Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 9:53 pm
by Silent Flamer
I got Quake II and installed it . The game works pretty fine , but it is overly laggy . It takes about 5 seconds just to refresh the screen . Anyone can check it out and explain why this is happening? I just wasted about 150MB just getting the disk image .

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 5:44 am
by kikkoman
If you're asking for a most generic answer, and nothing specifically related to your particular hardware setup, then I'd wager a guess that the problem lies anywhere in 3 areas.

1) your video card
2) your internet connection setup (or even the service itself)
3) Q2's (quake II's) settings/preferences aren't set up properly/optimally.

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:40 pm
by Silent Flamer
(1) I don't think that'll affect SheepShaver .
(2) I didn't activate internet for SheepShaver (it keeps crashing if I do)
(3) I need to go inside Quake and push through the lag if I want to set the preferences .

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 2:56 pm
by Cat_7
You could try to set video to software opengl, because hardware opengl is not supported.
If that puts too much burden on SheepShaver's processing capability, then you can't play QuakeII.

Cat_7

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:32 pm
by Silent Flamer
What does that suppose to mean? Please tell how to do that .

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:57 pm
by kikkoman
Couldn't you just edit the autoexec.cfg (essentially a text file) to have lower video quality settings... before you launch Quake II?

As for hardware openGL versus software openGL, I think he meant that if you do have the patience to 'push through the lag' to get to the preferences window (in-game), you should try to choose "software openGL" and not leave it set to use "hardware openGL".

Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 10:27 pm
by Silent Flamer
Okay . Consider the topic closed .