quake/articles/1997/art-932

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From: "Phil McKracken"

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Subject: Four Pauses in Quake under Win95. SOLUTION HERE:

Date: 8 Jan 1997 18:38:13 -0000

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Since I see people asking quite frequently about the four pause problem in

Quake while running it under Win95, I thought I should post a solution to

the problem. I had fought with this for months until I solved it myself.

Nobody else could or would give me any detailed help on the matter. So

here is the solution.

First of all, the problem does not exist on all systems. It is just a

quirk with some mixes of BIOS's, chipsets, or whatever. The root of the

problem is the TCP\IP protocol bindings to adapters. If you have TCP\IP

bound to more than one adapter at a time, Win95 periodically polls all

those adapters to determine if there is any traffic on them. While it is

polling those adapters it is hogging up CPU time from ALL other

applications. If you think that the four pauses occur only in Quake then

you do not pay close enough attention to your screen. Start up Warcraft II

and play that for a while. You will see the same four pauses. Of course

you will have to look closer because of the graphical nature of the game is

different than Quake. But they are there.

Having said that, the solution to those persons that are computer aware

enough should be obvious. Remove any bindings of TCP\IP to any device that

you do not use to play Quake on. If you have more than one device in you

computer that needs to have TCP\IP bound to it because you are using the

computer at work then you will have to restore it to the original

configuration every time you quit playing Quake. A better solution would

be to creat a new User Configuation in Win95 and call it Gamer or something

similar. Then you would click on Shut Down and select Close all programs

and log on as new user.

For those persons that are not computer aware enough to know what the hell

is going on here then read further for step by step instuctions on how to

solve the problem once and for all. Of course you should keep a copy of

this so you can show one of your more geeky friends what you were trying to

do. It would help when they have to help you recover from your bumblings

because you probably will not be able to get on line if you mess something

up.

STEP ONE

Right-Click on Network Neighborhood.

STEP TWO

Choose "Properties".

STEP THREE

Scroll down the list and locate any entries that look like this:

TCP\IP -> NE2000 Compatible

TCP\IP -> Dial-Up Adapter

TCP\IP -> ISA Lantek PnP 16

TCP\IP -> Kitchen Sink

STEP FOUR

Determine which one you use to play Quake on. If you call up an ISP and

log onto the internet using your modem then you are using the Dial-Up

adapter. If you are on a LAN and connect through it to some sort of

communications server or are one of the low pinging, sleep all day, pizza

eating, two liter Pepsi drinking lucky-assed college students that are

hooked up directly to an internet server then you are using the net card.

SInce I don't know what netcard you are using you will have to pick out the

proper line. There should be only one of them anyways unless you have two

netcards installed.

STEP FIVE

Remove all entries except for the one that you determined in the last step

as being the one you want to keep. It is pretty straight foward. You

select the entry and click on "Remove" Repeat as necessary.

STEP SIX

Click on "Ok"

STEP SEVEN

Answer YES when it asks you if you want to restart your computer.

STEP EIGHT

Masterbate at the thought of no longer having to smash your fist into the

wall because you just got fragged for no good frigging reason.

good huntin'

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