Weird stuff happening while playing Q3 online...

[reverse]

This generaly only occurs when I play online. After I get fragged and the screen with the score comes up (sorry, forgot the actual name of it?) my system will act like a broken record for about 2-5 seconds. It will repeat the frag sound and the scene will sort of freeze until after the sound finishes repeating. This generally never happens when paying a lan game.

One other weird problem I've been having lately is when the above happens and I respawn, I can't move forward, I can only move backward or left or right for about 10 seconds. After 10 seconds (respectively) I can move normally again.

What is the deal?

I have the 1.27g patch and am currently running DirectX 8.0a and I have aDSL from SWBell. For computer specs, see sig but I am running nVidia 6.5 drivers.

[ 05-09-2001: Message edited by: reverse ]

[GRIM]

Hm thats a weird one nnot really sure with out more info but there are some hacks running around such as the one below

Quick Summary

What can Q30wnerz do you ask? Simply put, it will control anyone and
everyone on the target Q3 server (any mod!). Everyone will be affected. Even if
you're playing Rocket Arena 3 (great game), and you're in one arena,
all the players in the other arenas will be affected as well.

Controlling the players was simple to do, but we decided that would give
too much power to the users, so we randomized it and did it for everyone.

What can Q30wners do?

Randomly move everyone's aim (such as making you look at the sky)
Change people's FOV (we made it so it's a rare occassion)
Locking people into their place and not let them move for a few seconds
Everyone taunts at the same time
Making people shoot randomly (without them pressing fire)
Having their projectiles (and lightning) go somewhere other than where
they are looking at (they look forward and fire, but the mark appears
behind them; or lightning shoots out but curves around their body and hit's
the wall behind them)
Infinite votes (by using our program, the client inside the game will be
allowed to vote as many times they want) -not fully tested
Anti-nemseh defenses. [nameless] had the pleasure of playing with nemseh on
a server and nemseh had autoaim and rocket prediction (he could do
mid air rockets) as well as perfect plasma. Using this little baby allowed
me to get a few kills off him (hey, how can you play if your FOV changes
all the time and you're looking at a different direction every few seconds
and you're locked in place most of the time? > :)
Drawbacks (Just one)

We will not allow you to choose what will happen. It will be all random.
(if we gave you control over that, then it would seriously kill the game)

[Silver]

That aint it, Its not Q3owners, cuz I have had that done to me, and its totally noticable, he is talking about when he dies. Actually I dont know what causes that, but I get the exact same thing. Also when hitting the tab button to bring down the stats menu thing, sometimes it will stick and I semi lock up for about a 1-2 sec's. Not sure why. Your system is beefier then mine though, I allways chalked mine up to system lag.

What are your system resources? Are you running a firewall?? I have never turned mine off and played but might try that tonight. Also go through your startup menu and clean it up if you havnt allready that will clear up some system resources :D

[reverse]

Well, another f*cked thing is that when I change my name and or model, it never keeps it all the time when I go to play again (this happens after I shutdown Q3 and restart it). Sometimes it will change on me by just going to another online game, on one server I will be "Barbra Walters" ;) and 10 minutes later on another game I'll be named "rABbit URinE."

As far as firewalls are concerned, I have ZoneAlarm and I have a Linksys router.

[GRIM]

Originally posted by reverse:
when I change my name and or model, it never keeps it all the time

try putting your model in your cfg this way it will allways load the model you want
example
seta model ranger/ash
seta headmodel uriel/necroscope

[BadEditor]

Heres a Professional explantion......... (took from a website)

When playing a multiplayer game, sometimes there is a short pause, then I see my character dying

This is actually a system that we have implemented to load the character models of players that have entered the game. When playing on the Internet, frequently people will join into the game after you have. The small pause is Quake3’s way of loading all of the models of those players into your game. It may seem like this process is killing you, however the game waits until you are killed, and at that instant loads the other models. This is usually an extremely fast process as quite often you will still see your death animation after the models are loaded (just and indication that you have missed very little while loading the models). You can manually force the game to load all of the new playermodels at any time by simply pressing the TAB key. Be warned, this will cause the same slight pause, so it is unwise to use this procedure in the middle of combat. If you do not want this process to happen at all, you can set the "Force Player Models" option to "On". You can find this option in the "Setupà Game Options" menu. This will show all other players in the same model you are playing. This is a memory saving option and will increase the speed of the game on slower systems.

[reverse]

That's retarded!

[Silver]

Kick ass, I now actually know why it does that. I allways thought it was my system. LOL, I like to see whats doing what too, so i hit tab alot, no wonder I allways freezing up. DOH. Ah well, Thanks for the info :D

[malachi]

I've been playing CS and Quake3 for months, no problems. Now I get same type of problem, freezes, exceptional lag, sounds repeating like echo chamber. This happens on all servers, all the time. My ping ranges from 400 to 1900. My ping rate used to be a steady 30 to 60. Verizon says everything looks ok. I haven't reconfigured anything.
The system is a AMDk7 750 mhz, 512 megs of ram, a gforce256 video card., asus motherboard. system monitor says all temperatures are ok, and voltages are stable.
I have had a dsl rebuild from verizon. The other pc's on the lan run fine. 3 pc's on a static ip ran thru a hub. Like I said, no prob. for months and now this. No problems downloading or browsing...
HELP!!!
thanx, robert.sirignano@verizon.net

[reverse]

One other thing I would like to know is why Quake is soooooo slow when querying servers online. It used to be that I would get 150 servers instantly, now, I get like 30 and it takes a minute or two for it to query like 300 servers!?

Download speeds are the same as before and my ping rates are also the same (50-100 depending on the server).

[GRIM]

Hmmm I have noticed this also in the last week pinging serevers in the ingame browser takes a very lont time like you said before it was nuch quicker