Got quake III installed but video is aweful looking

[Crackmunch]

I go into quake and try to play but everything is very block like. I cannt
read any text or anthing. I installed and updated quake. Not really sure
where to go from here. I have tried different resolutions and everything else
i can think of. Not sure where to go from here. If it helps im running
mandrake 8.1 and have working drivers for my gforce2 mx. (tux racer works)
Thanks in advance

[Gaccm]

does the text move around (like do the boxes have white spots that move?) I get that sometimes, the problem is when the game is using 1/2 nvidia drivers and 1/2 X drivers. basicly, whenever i update to the newest version of X, X redispurses all of its openGL libraries. I then must go and recompile the nvidia drivers, otherwise i'm not able to get half-life to run, and Return to Castle wolfenstien goes very slowly and the text is messed up.

[Crackmunch]

So i just need to reinstall the mvidia drivers? I though it might have been a quake prolem and reinstalled quake not i get sound but no vid. Ill try the drivers first.

Thanks

[Gaccm]

you have no vid at all? I could go into RTCW, but ALL of the textures were "squirming" for lack of a better word, and it was just weird. But, yeah, try that. Infact nvidia just released new linux drivers, gogogogo

[bwkaz]

Search http://www.lokigames.com/ for nv_check.sh, and run it on your Linux box. I have a feeling it might be old OpenGL drivers hanging around, because Descent 3 did the same type of thing to me when I had old GLX drivers on the machine. It was like it was running in 5x4 pixel mode, and there was no menu text, I had to kill X (or Descent3, but then X died anyway) to get out of it.

Or don't search -- I just found the link. It's here (http://www.lokigames.com/~support/nvidia/nv_check.sh). Save it to somewhere and then just go to that directory and do a ./nv_check.sh to run it.

[ 30 November 2001: Message edited by: bwkaz ]