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Quake / xatrixpatch and roguepatch

« on: November 19, 2012, 06:27:06 AM »

I was playing the Reckoning expansion pack for Quake 2 and ran into a bug that will not let me load my saves. I was reading about it and found that there is a patch that fixes this problem. I can't find a site that still hosts this file. I found a couple that say that have it, but it will send me to a page that says "File Not Found". So can anyone tell me where I could find these patches?

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Quake / Re: Sound Compatibility: "Normal Writing Vs. Direct Writing"

« on: November 19, 2012, 05:51:42 AM »

Thank you for the detailed explanation Jay. I did further researching between the two settings, and discovered that if you have a lower end soundcard, that you should choose normal writing/max compatibility. But, if you have a decent sound card, that you should use direct writing/max performance so you can take advantage of the DirectSound primary buffer.


Incase anyone wants to know, the cvar that controls this setting is "s_primary". A value of 0 will use "normal writing/max compatibility", and a value of 1 will use "direct writing/max performance".

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Quake / Sound Compatibility: "Normal Writing Vs. Direct Writing"

« on: November 19, 2012, 04:20:02 AM »

Under the options menu in R1Q2, for sound compatibility, it says "normal writing" and "direct writing". It usually says "max compatibility" and "max performance" instead. What I'm wondering is, what setting out of "normal writing" or "direct writing" would have the best sound quality? I'm looking for the highest quality sound, so out of those choices, what would bring the highest quality audio?