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Quake III Team Arena

Quake III Team Arena is ID Software's take on a multi-player version of Quake III. From a technical standpoint, Quake III Team Arena is very similar to Quake III Arena.

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Software:Quake III Team Arena (ID Software)
Version:1.32
Installed size:874 M
Benchmark duration:Approximately one minute

Installation

After installing Quake III Team Arena, the program should be started with the so-called Mission Pack. To do so, you must add the following to the start up shortcut: '+set_fs_missionpack'.

This parameter is necessary for Quake III Team Arena.

Settings

The settings can be changed under 'Options » Setup » System'. Here are our preferences:

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Quality:High Quality
Resolution:1280x1024
Color depth:32 Bit

Benchmarking

The process benchmarking is no different than with Quake III Arena. In this case, however, we use a timedemo (thg3) that we recorded ourselves, which puts a lot of load on the system.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.