can't play on ANY quake servers [seriously]

[Fishdeath]

Hi, I'm gone for a week and come back ready to play and something's seriously wrong. I connected to shmack and it was on e1m7 which my computer/modem hates running mulitiplayer on, and the frame rate is ridiculously low and the same couple sounds keep repeating over and over, until a new sound or two comes along and is repeated over and over. The frame rate is about the same as a strobe light on it's lowest setting.
Here's the wierd parts [it gets worse]: even when I move my mouse [to look around] the frames are still strobey/choppy. What's also strange is quake runs perfectly in single player, but I experience the same problem when I connect to any server on any map, empty or not.
Another strange thing is I kept getting hung apps on my IE explorer [kept freezing] before I could even get the chance to google "OMG help me " so I scanned for viruses but nothing came up Obviously I got my explorer fixed, but I'm still baffled and distraught over Quake problem. If anyone read my whole post thank you and thanks to anyone in advance if they can help me out a bit

[Fishdeath]

havent tried another client ill try that thank you, and i don't have any other games :/ ...... thanx again

[Grim]

Fishdeath, is Quake the only game that it does this too?

[Grim]

Sounds like you need a firewall for starters. With Sygate being no more, I'm not sure what is a good free one to recommend.

Btw, it could be your Quake ... I mean, it is at least POSSIBLE. What Quake client are you using?

Baker, I have an older version of Sygate that I use somewhere.

[Sajt]

Hmmmmm, I wonder, If I filled my Quake folder with too much other "stuff" would that cause any problems? My quake folder= 142MB

That's nothing... I have had a Quake folder of 4 GB, and other Quake folks have had much larger (I wouldn't want to know the size of Cheapy's quake dir)

[Spirit]

Are you trying to connect to a netquake server with a qw engine or the other way?

[Fishdeath]

winproquake or wqpro.exe [32 i think?] I'll reisntall tonight don't feel like going through moving around all my files and rebindind keys ect. right now...

[Baker]

Hmmm, as long as we're on the subject is it average to have about 2 unsolicited connection attemps to various ports on your computer every 5-10 minutes? This computer in Bejin China won't leave me alone along with a few others and some more random unsolicited connections.... Just wondering, sorry if I keep replying to my own thread hope that's not considered spamming...

Sounds like you need a firewall for starters. With Sygate being no more, I'm not sure what is a good free one to recommend.

Btw, it could be your Quake ... I mean, it is at least POSSIBLE. What Quake client are you using?

[Fishdeath]

OK, This wierd *UPDATE* I ran Quake in windowed mode while my task manager was still open (probably should have done that in the first place) and "wqpro.exe" uses 90-95% of my CPU usage [once I'm connected to a server, normal in single player] there are no other programs slowing it down, quake itself is somehow demanding almost all of the cpu power [in some moments total CPU usage is 100%] as if it has been modded somehow to hang/freeze itself, although it doesn't actually crash it did once when I closed the taskmanager b4 closing wqpro. *sigh* this sucks.....

[Fishdeath]

Hmmm, as long as we're on the subject is it average to have about 2 unsolicited connection attemps to various ports on your computer every 5-10 minutes? This computer in Bejin China won't leave me alone along with a few others and some more random unsolicited connections.... Just wondering, sorry if I keep replying to my own thread hope that's not considered spamming...

[Fishdeath]

One more detail [in case it helps] When I connect to a quake server the time it takes to connect is normal, it doesn't say 'trying.. still trying.." or anything like that, UNTIL it displays the map name, then I get "client to server keppalive" messages, about 3 or 4, and the console slooowwwwwly goes up. Also when I say something it goes right through and ping displays in rankings about normal, maybe a little higher but not enough to cause whats happening. What I'm trying to explain is I don't think (99% sure) that something is dragging or sharing my internet connection, I think it's soley the quake application [all other internet applications working fine at the moment] and quake is my only program running with no side processes running [at least at the time right before I run wqpro.exe] Anyways hope that helps narrow it down thanx again

[Baker]

Are you kidding? I got hacked with my dialup once and they left me a txt file on my desktop saying "U suxorz, get broadband this take too long"

Windows 98, right? (I'm just guessing).

If so, that was a real "interesting" operating system. I got "nuked" once by a botter in 1999 (those were interesting times, no IP masking ... caused me to get a firewall).

A friend of mine told me how he had got his ISP account cancelled back in the day because he used a script to display the files on people's computers, it would do one IP at a time.

That had to have been the least secure operating system ever.

[Fishdeath]

Are you kidding? I got hacked with my dialup once and they left me a txt file on my desktop saying "U suxorz, get broadband this take too long"

Oh Sh*t, I wanna laugh but I know the feeling and it sucks.

[Fishdeath]

Thanx, and yeah I prefer Firefox but my friend is afraid of using something he's not familiar with and after all it's his comp I'll see if I can sneak it it somewhere......

[IEEE 802.11]

I don't think it's very likely you got hacked:

1. Seems like most dialup users don't have a firewall..

Are you kidding? I got hacked with my dialup once and they left me a txt file on my desktop saying "U suxorz, get broadband this take too long"