any old Quake players here?

[EL34]

I used to play quite a bit of Quake 3 starting in 1999
Played for several years and then stopped.

Triode plays Quake 2

Just discovered Quake live, which is Quake 3 and parts of Quake 4.
It's free and it plays in your browser, which is pretty cool.
It's been redesigned with player tiers so you can play people your own skill level

I thought it was going to suck, but the game play is really nice in a browser.
Foxfire is reccomended but it plays in other browsers
It even plays nice on one of my old XP machines that has less than 1meg ram and mother board graphics.

Just wondering if anyone else here is into FPS shooters and is interested in checking out Quake live?

We could have forum games and yack about it
www.quakelive.com

[andrew_k]

I think you mean Firefox and 1GB of RAM? 1mb of ram won't get you far.
I used to play lots of Quake, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, Halo, Doom, Doom II, back to Wolfenstein.
Currently only play Team Fortress 2. It's free on Steam if you want to give it a try, lots of light-hearted fun and plenty of variation in gameplay thanks to the 9 very different classes you can play as.

[EL34]

Thanks, yes FoxFire  

Team Fortress 2, Hmm, what is that, a team war game like COD?

Quakelive plays in a browser with an add on and you don't need massive system specs
You don't install the game, (which I already own on disc).

I have been playing Quake Live on a 6 core AMD machine with 6 gb ram and
 an old XP machine with 768 meg of ram, mother board graphics and they both play equally smooth

I can go to any machine on my network and play Quake Live

[sluckey]

an old XP machine with 768K of ram,

I remember when 640K was more memory than anyone would ever need.  

But I seriously doubt that you could even install XP on a machine with only 768K of RAM. Maybe DOS 3.1!    

Or were you referring to an old XT machine? XT stands for X-tended Technology. Hot stuff!

[EL34]

Ooops, not K - meg
768 meg ram

[triode]

I think you mean Firefox and 1GB of RAM? 1mb of ram won't get you far.
I used to play lots of Quake, Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, Halo, Doom, Doom II, back to Wolfenstein.
Currently only play Team Fortress 2. It's free on Steam if you want to give it a try, lots of light-hearted fun and plenty of variation in gameplay thanks to the 9 very different classes you can play as.

What kind of machine do you use for the TF2 on Steam? I tried that a while back on my
biggest machine... Quad core, 2GB ram, XP, Nvidia 9000 series with 512MB ram. It crawls.
Crawls as in unplayable slow.  I stopped and fired up a network Quake2 game to check,
it was fast as all get out. I did not get on the forums or anything, I assumed I did not
have enough horsepower (I have two friends that are gamers... they have ridiculous
systems. I assumed that was the norm now as my machine, albeit quad core, is old).

[EL34]

Quad core machines are still ripping fast

I have a dual core machine that will play anything I have ever thrown at it.

Maybe something else in the steups or drivers, etc
Hard to say

[Ritchie200]

I am an old Tyrian fan.  There was just something about that game that you could not stop playing it.  Introduced in 1995 with an update in 2000.  Just an old look-down scrolling shooter format, but it was too cool.  There are now open source versions and people will not let it die.  I just found out an iPhone version is available, gotta get it!

Jim