Hi there!

I installed Q3A successfully today, with the great help that was given before in this forum. Thanks to those!

When I first started the game there was no sound. I continued and started a game. It ran very fast and without problems... except for sound.

The I had a look into the forum and saw, that it might be depending on the permissons of /dev/dsp. So I started as root and had sound. Wow.. great. So I changed the owner or /dev/dsp from root:root to root:audio; so I had permissions as user.

I started Q3A and wham!!! Sound! :-) I was so happy that it didn't take much to get sound working. I started a game and ... uurgghhhh .... it freezes on the first frame of the game itself. I see my gun and all the lightnings from being spawn but nothing more...

So I switched to console and killed it.

Have been trying around a bit by now, but nothing changed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Sascha

simplest fix is to throw in an cheap soundblaster card... otherwise, there was a post started by me (in this forum) that has a potential solution... I am not sure if it works or not because I had upgraded to a soundblaster card.

Thanks for your answer, but...

We'll I can get sound to work by now.. and play it ... but I would not say the problem is fixed ... because it's the "turn soundbuffer down - start quake with artsdsp -m nice quake3" or something ...

It works, no matter what ... the lag is so minimal I don't recognize it, but it can't be the end ... this is not a solution ... this is like mounting a kickstart to your car if it won't run through turning the key ...

So, ... an clean possibilities or not at the moment? :-)

Greetings, Sascha

Did you put the latest q3 patch on there? The one on id's site is not the latest... there's a 1.32b i believe.

My brother had these problems and i believe that fixed it.

The problem is all too familiar, I'm certain the solution's out there.

Thanks for your answer FatButtLarry ... which number is the latest than?

Greetings, Sascha

1.32b

planetquake3.net is a good place to pick up point releases/patches and such...