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rine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

quake3 freezes sometimes after switch to oss

Hi,
today I switched from alsa to oss, because with alsa, I can't have any other sound when playing quake3. But now quake3 sometimes freezes. It begins loading all the stuff and then just stops. I switch to a tty and kill it. Nothing really gets logged. There is a warning, but I think that is also there when the game starts fine:

stitched 128 LoD cracks
...loaded 6559 faces, 344 meshes, 12 trisurfs, 382 flares
WARNING: reused image gfx/2d/blender_180.tga with mixed glWrapClampMode parm
trying gfx/2d/custom1.TGA...
CL_InitCGame:  2.37 seconds
1 msec to draw all images
Com_TouchMemory: 0 msec
Shutdown tty console

I'm starting the game like this

quake3 +connect <ip> +password "<pass>" +set cl_punkbuster 1 +set fs_game osp +set r_glDriver "/usr/lib/libGL.so"

The libGL stuff is there because I had another error before (which didn't affect anything as far as I noticed). The option removes the error but I don't think it has anything to do with my problem.
I grepped for quake in /var/log but I just can't find anything.

Any help appreciated.

Last edited by rine (2008-12-27 06:27:40)

DuGi

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From: Silesia

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 8

Re: quake3 freezes sometimes after switch to oss

try to use ioquake binaries instead of quake3. ioquake works perfect with alsa.

Last edited by DuGi (2008-12-27 21:39:01)

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rine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

Re: quake3 freezes sometimes after switch to oss

And I can play with other people using q3 and osp? But well, I found this http://nullkey.ath.cx/~stuff/et-sdl-sound/ which works. Not with teamspeak though. Guess I'll just buy a Sound Blaster Live and use hardware mixing.
edit: Well I just read that punkbuster isn't supported. So that's the end of that story

Last edited by rine (2008-12-27 23:41:13)