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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in
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> "Bill M." <wbmcl@removexcite.com> wrote in message 
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>> "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in
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>>>> "Matthew Vaughan" <matt-no-spam-109@NOSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in
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>>>>> "Bill M." <wbmcl@removexcite.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>> Would editing the vsync still be positive and if so how? I don't
>>>>>> see it in the control panel/display settings. The Sony can do
>>>>>> 75Hz at 1024 and if the FPS cranks, I'd drop the resolution down
>>>>>> to that, providing I can set the vsync to make that work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Editing the vsync setting would certainly change your *timedemo*
>>>>> results in a positive way, but should have no visible or other
>>>>> effect on what you actually experience during gameplay.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it certainly did have a positive effect. The FPS cranked from
>>>> a limited 60 fps to well over 200 fps. And indeed, the game does
>>>> not suffer in any way visually.
>>>>
>>>> Bill M.
>>>
>>> There are SOME games that may appear to have tearing of the
>>> textures, often with black lines in the torn looking edges. 
>>> Enabling VSync will help that issue.  However, the problem might
>>> turn up with my system and not yours with the same game.   I'm glad
>>> your system is bullish enough to do Quake in high res without vsync
>>> :) BTW-  GLQuake cannot do 32 bit color depth in any resolution
>>> higher than 800x600.  But the game itself is 16 bit depth so just
>>> play it with 1280x1024-16 like I do.  Looks pretty good, especially
>>> since the day when I was running at 320x240-16 and tweaking like
>>> crazy to get a couple more frames per second!   Who back then would
>>> have though we'd be playing it maxed out in hundreds of frames per
>>> second?! LOL! McG.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Indeed. It's also ironic that I upgraded my first 386SX-16 to a
>> 486DX-33 because of DOOM, then I upgraded to a Pentium 100 because of
>> Quake. Now I have a system a dozen times more powerful - and yet I've
>> gone back to the two games that hardly need this kind of power.
>>
>> Bill M.
> 
> Same here Bill.  They were just more fun :)   There has never been
> anything to top Quake and Quake2 for CTF.   There have been a few
> weekends where i'd get a very GOOD 28.8 connection and i'd watch the
> sun go down, then come up again while sitting right here at this very
> desk!  I've even fallen asleep a couple times while playing Quake CTF
> online! So now, when *I* have the connection, the hardware.... nobody
> is playing it 
>:(
> McG. 
> 
> 
> 
No doubt you, like I, also dreamed DOOM / Quake. I recall driving along 
seeing a guy walking past a garbage can barrel and thinking, "I should 
shoot that barrel". Also in a restaurant, there was a large fan ceiling 
and I thought, "I got chopped up in that the other day ... wait, that 
was Quake."

I'm still going through Quake in solo mode, and still marveling at the 
nostalgia factor. But with Fuhquake down, and QuakeWorld (through 
GameSpy) pretty much non-existent, are there any dependable eQuake 
servers? The front-end launcher doesn't give much info as to which 
server is active, and those few that I've gone in (because of my solo 
play focus) have been inactive too.

Bill M.