Monday, October 30, 2000

In case you didn't know.
Posted by Time2Die@ 9:43 AM EST

    Voodooextreme is backup!

http://www.voodooextreme.com/

Been up for about a week...drop Billy "Wicked" Wilson a line and tell'um he rocks!

Another timely tip.
Posted by Time2Die@ 9:14 AM EST

    The r_colorbits 24 works like a charm. I got a smooth 12fps boost and since all the graphics are only 24bit to begin with, I lose nothing in the way detail.

Another tip I saw while clicking and browsing:

http://www.3dspotlight.net/tweaks/mouse/mouse-3.shtml

USB however tends to be more CPU reliant than PS/2 (During periods of high CPU usage the mouse may behave erratically), something which may not appeal to gamers too much. You can improve USB performance by doing the following however. Right click on My Computer, select Properties, then the Device Manager tab (In Windows 2000 select Hardware first). Scroll down to Universal Serial Bus controllers & select the device beneath USB Root Hub. Open it, & in the Advanced tab Tick, Disable USB error detection. Restart for the change to take effect. This can significantly improve the responsiveness of USB mice & other USB devices attached to your system.

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

GeForce F.A.Q.
Posted by Time2Die@ 1:50 PM EDT

    http://www.geforcefaq.com

Even if you don't own a GeForce, that's a great reference with some killer tips. Going to try this tip...

http://www.geforcefaq.com/#sw:gam:q3a:speed

-insert tip-
Try typing this setting into the console:

/r_colorbits 24
/vid_restart

This will make the GeForce use 24 bits per pixel instead of 16 or 32 to display the image. This will help to reduce the amount of memory required by the card to store images in it's frame buffer without reducing image quality.

Monday, October 23, 2000

Smooth Screen Shots.
Posted by Time2Die@ 3:43 PM EDT

    http://www.killersinc.com/files/downloads/misc/lb/newer/

lostboy sent me some more screenshots from his ATI card and they look...damn smooth ;> Check'um out.

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

DU Stats.
Posted by Time2Die@ 4:48 PM EDT

    Depleted Uranium has some cool stats going here (Thanks N8!):

http://63.73.156.10/geigercounter/du1

Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Batman on lanparty.com.
Posted by Time2Die@ 3:21 PM EDT

    Saw this pasted in the channel. Batman submitted this picture from the Mathis Invitational last june. Pretty cool...also saw this one posted (thanks pro) showing the younger generation of gamers.

ATI ALL-IN-Wonder.
Posted by Time2Die@ 3:04 PM EDT

    Lostboy reports that the ATI All-in-wonder 32 DDR ($320) is DAMN smooth. Check out these smooth screenshots...

http://www.killersinc.com/files/downloads/misc/lb/

...some of the best looking screenshots I've seen of Quake3.

Monday, October 16, 2000

Quake3 for the Dreamcast.
Posted by Time2Die@ 12:56 PM EDT

    http://www.gamers.com/s/feature/001015-dcq3/index

Sweet review of Thresh and Makaveli running the new Q3a for Dreamcast head to head. Alex Hafex aka Ash[DJedi] helped in the creation of the article. Thanks lunk...

Friday, October 13, 2000

Community News.
Posted by Time2Die@ 1:42 PM EDT

    Recently started following q3ctf.org . It's a page dedicated to the Q3CTF community...which is refreshing. The community page is interesting to browse through and the discussions are actually about things going on in the here and now, not delayed or irrelevant like most gaming websites.

In clan news Assreaper and MiliTerry have started a clan called Digitalplague with a channel under the same name. Stop in and say "Y0!" as you'll be seeing more of them...

Added some links to the right hand links menu. "Q3 Clients" and some house keeping.

Thursday, October 12, 2000

EverGlide Bungee?
Posted by Time2Die@ 4:42 PM EDT

    Strange little devide from the Everglide people that keeps the mouse cord from getting tangled up when using the mouse to play.

Everglide Bungee Review

Monday, October 9, 2000

Game Wallpaper.
Posted by Time2Die@ 2:04 PM EDT

    Sweet page for game wallpaper...
(thanks lunk)

http://www.gamewallpapers.com/searchable/gwg-page-10.htm

Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Time-b0t.
Posted by Time2Die@ 11:59 AM EDT

    Little update. I created some utils to check and reset !Info's now via the b0t. Also took some time to update the TB page and brought it into the fold as well as updated the !info command list with what should be all of the commands...maybe I should do a "random" info generator? hehe...

Tuesday, October 3, 2000

Matches.
Posted by Time2Die@ 4:34 PM EDT

    Finally went back and updated the couple of OGL and TP.NET matches we had in the last month. Should be up to date for at least the last month. We had some Aug. matches that I'll have to go and dig up the SS's for...

TTL Match.
Posted by Time2Die@ 3:05 PM EDT

    After spending almost 90 minutes looking for a server (mostly because I missed the fact that most could not play on DROW and had already OK'd the server when we set the match up) we finally decided on the old Dallas server "Sluts Inc." and played best of 3 on q3wctf2 and q3ctf3 winning both. << Game 1 >> << Game 2 >>

Thanks go out to both teams for putting up with trying to find a server that both could live with. Ultimately I think we found a server that gave us a ping advantage with both teams around 100. In the second game tho we put Lunk in with a smooth 300+ ping. GG to SST for great sportsmanship and attitude.

Monday, October 2, 2000

3dcool.
Posted by esclay@ 10:25 AM EDT

    Friend of mine passed along this link: http://www.3dcool.com

Nice cooling alternatives.