Quake III Arena v129f-2 Updater for Mac OS X is Available

for download. This reissue of the updater improves the sound code which reduces its negative effect on frame rate. In addition, Mike McHargue pointed out that Q3A is multiprocessor aware and can be enabled by editing the config.cfg file to read: seta r_smp="1". Visit Mike's band's web site.

When we enabled multiprocessing the frame rate at 1280x1024 for the demo increased from 37 to 47 frames per second. The second release of v129f further increased the demo's frame rate to 57.

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