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Q3 Texture Compression

by Steve Gibson, Dec 06, 2000 5:26am PST

Related Topics – Quake 3 Arena

The Gamesbasement guys have done up a brief article looking at Quake3 texture compression and trying to figure out if its busted or fixed or what exactly. Thanks VE

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At the risk of sounding like a 3dfx/id fanperson, the patch doesn't fix any problem in Quake 3 it just avoids a GeForce hardware issue. *sigh*

Dec 06, 2000 6:32am PST

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At the risk of sounding like a 3dfx/id fanperson, the patch doesn't fix any problem in Quake 3 it just av... : Cless
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  hardware issue. hardly... : abrasion
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    The article assumes that the Quake 3 sky textures have an Alpha Channel when they actually don't. Decomp... : Cless
    - you are right, that's an error on my part. I didn't realize you could achieve the same results as an alp... : wumpus

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ummm,it's broken.

Dec 06, 2000 4:42pm PST

ummm,it's broken. : brutal

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i just wanna know
how much faster on a gf2gts?
and how to enable it (if it ain't by default.

needs fugly mode.

Dec 06, 2000 7:24am PST

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i just wanna know how much faster on a gf2gts? and how to enable it (if it ain't by default. n... : ILF
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  its not actually really any uglier if done properly...thats why they decided to start using it...but on ... : TheTick
  - got sky off anyways. and semitransparent textures? well, gibs off, blood off, mars on walls off, rocke... : ILF

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Are you sure it's not just faster because you're now using DXTC when you weren't using it before? Simply enabling DXTC in Quake3 gives me like a 10 fps boost at 1024x768... (GeForce2 GTS here)

Can't wait to try this at home. Anybody know a good hex editor that's not nagware?

Dec 06, 2000 10:54am PST

Are you sure it's not just faster because you're now using DXTC when you weren't using it before? Simply ... : belzebutt

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Can't argue with results I guess; TC looks fine now in the skies. Let me check vs the old exe and make sure it is actually doing anything...

Dec 06, 2000 6:54am PST

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Can't argue with results I guess; TC looks fine now in the skies. Let me check vs the old exe and make s... : lee majors
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- Looks to be ~ 2 fps slower than the default TC from iD but about 10 fps faster than no TC at all. : lee majors

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A hex editor? Hmm. I wonder if Windows has one of those ..

Dec 06, 2000 6:56am PST

A hex editor? Hmm. I wonder if Windows has one of those .. : avixe

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downloaded the patch, got a few fps and nicer graphics... who can complain about that...

Dec 06, 2000 6:23am PST

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downloaded the patch, got a few fps and nicer graphics... who can complain about that... : mario
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- a few fps more actually... 90 vs 86 : mario

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