Quake 3 Arena

Hi Guys,
After re-installing Quake 3 Arena on my computer after a couple of years, I decided that I'd forget playing against the computer, and against real people.

So, could anyone tell me how to play against other online players?

Btw, I'm a noob to multiplaying.

Thanks, jam.

EDIT: Oops, can a mod edit my thread title to something like "Quake 3 Arena Multiplayer", thanks.

 

You have to update the game with a patch. Dont know a like but try google.com

 

I've got to get this game working first damn it. Installed it, now I'm getting this stupid error message , mainly :

"GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem".

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Try downloading open arena - it's free and you can play against other people. It looks just like Q3A. Love open source.

 

Ah right, I'll see about that. Anyway, I've made Quake work with an update of my drivers. Just need to find a patch now.

Thanks guys.

 

How have you managed to make it work? I have tried Catalyst 7.9, 7.10rc4 and Omega v3.8.421 on my HD2600 but it gives me "GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem" error anyway
Installing the latest quake 3 patch didn't help.

I am already quite disappointed with ATI drivers quality since I encountered many problems lately that I didn't have with GeForces.

 

You should try some games that were made in this millennium, they have much fewer compatibility issues.

 

I didn't have any problems running Quake 3 on desktop GeForce 6600 and was very surprised to find it is not compatible with newer Radeon.

Newer games don't work flawlessly too... Sometimes when starting a game windows crashes with blue screen and error in win32k.sys. Battlefield 2 closes itself after trying to log on.

Open Arena gives the same as Quake 3 "could not load OpenGL subsystem" error.

 

It's an incredibly common error on Q3 based games, with many causes. Most of them (and their fixes) are mentioned in the first few pages of this thread:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/2006/