playing Quake 3 on home network

[kmcodyntn]

When I play quake 3 with my son I can join his game and play about 2 minutes then crash back to my desktop and it changes my screen size?
I can play the game by myself and it runs fine.
I have 4 computers on my network, sharing a cable connection,
linksys 4 port router, linksys n/cards. I can see all comps and they can see me. Everything else works fine except quake against my son. What gives?????

Playing games across my home network is new to me...
KC.............:( :eek:

[YeOldeStonecat]

Are all the computers running the same versions of Quake, IE latest patch on all of them?

All the Windows updates on all computers?

Latest NIC drivers?

Latest video drivers?

Is the NIC sharing an IRQ with anything else? ( a no-no)

[kmcodyntn]

Yes to all, also look at my post to you yeoldstonecat in networking.
KC.....

[Alby]

weird you can connect and have same pr but get booted after 2 mins
do you both have a cd in the drive because you both need cd for mp?
on single player cd is not required with latest prs

[YeOldeStonecat]

Doubt it's the cd, wouldn't even let you play if he didn't insert the cd, love those no-cd .exe cracks.

I wonder if your routers DHCP is screwing up, and you lease is expiring mid game, changing IP's? Have you tried static IP addresses? Leave the DHCP on the router turned on for a safety net. Then assign your IP 192.168.1.11 for one computer, 192.168.1.12 for the other, etc etc. All will have the same 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. All will have WINS disabled. All will have the same gateway, 192.168.1.1. And for DNS servers, look on your routers web admin page, the status tab...jot down the two DNS servers your ISP hands out..fill those in. If you're running Win9X, under the DNS tab, your host name is just the computers network identification name, the DNS domain is your ISP's formal domain name, IE SNET.NET, earthlink.net, etc.

[kmcodyntn]

Old drivers was the problem. I dumped windows 98 and did new install and forgot to update driver....:o
KC.......:)

[YeOldeStonecat]

Hmmm...you said "Yes to all" in the above". Well, glad it's working, enjoy some nice rails, my fave level....The Longest Yard!

[Gandalf]

That must suck :(