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Re: No Tweaking Please, we're almost british.... :-) -> punkbuster is the problem !

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From: Inglo
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:49
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On 4/16/2006 4:42 AM Alexander Oberhuber brightened our day with:
> Inglo <ioo@??.¿¿¿> wrote:
>
>   
>> tweaking is what made quake 3 fun 6 years ago.  It's not really 
>> necessary now, messing around with those network settings probably 
>> caused problems with punkbuster which led to the freeze-ups.
>>
>> r_picmip 2, r_subdivisions 20, cg_simpleitems 1
>>     
>
> Ouch. I re-experienced these famous 10-secs-lags and lockups again. How so? I
> made the mistake of installing and enabling...PUNKBUSTER.
>
> Anyone has an advice/tweak/cheat how to make Punkbuster run without locking
> the game up too many times?
>
>
>
>   
Try setting /pb_system 0

Go here:  http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Quake3/AquaQuake3Guide.html
And check the connection tweaks section.

Try here too: http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-q3.php

-- 
Cthulhu for President in 2008. Why vote for a lesser evil?

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com
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