How to loop Quake III

[steverama]

How do you loop Quake III? I'd like to see how high my cpu temp will go after a certain amount of time of Quake III non-stop demo-ing. TIA!

 

[BlueWeasel]

Place the following commands into Notepad (or equivalent) with each being on a seperate line and save as demoloop.cfg in your \Quake3\Baseq3\ directory:

disconnect
s_initsound 0
snd_restart
disconnect
timedemo 1
Set D1 "demo demo127; set nextdemo vstr D2"
Set D2 "demo demo127; set nextdemo vstr D1"
vstr D1

Then at the Q3 console, type exec demoloop.cfg. The demos will loop until you press ESC.

Note that the demos are in timedemo mode and there is no sound. Remove the second and third lines to play in sound and remove timedemo 1 if you want the demos to play at normal speed. Also, this config only works with version 1.27 and greater. If you have an earlier version then you will need to change demo127 above to the name of the earlier demo (I think it is demo001 and demo002).

Hope this helps. . .

 

[beamrider]

The Q3A loop isn't the best for CPU heating, as it has to pause after the demo, and reload itself. You'd be surprised how quick the temp will drop in 10 seconds. Try CPU Stability Test 6.0 instead, this prog is ruthless......

 

[steverama]

Well I did as you suggested. I ran the stability test for just under 5 hours, on the ''CPU warming test'', and my cpu temp topped up at 38.5 Celsius. I've got my Celeron 600 o'clocked @ 1008 Mhz (112 * 9) @ 1.85 volts. Is this test utility indicative of full cpu load?