Daok,

What you appear to be forgetting is that Quake3 was written over a period of years, by a team of top notch developers and support personnel with a large budget.

Sentience has taken 12 months of coding by myself alone, and graphics done by Behemoth.

They're not even in the same class so it's unfair to draw comparisons, but if you wish - I'll make a few.

The basic fact remains that I can run the game on my machines, many others can run the game on their machines and anyone can run the game on a machine that's had a fresh installation of windows 4+ (no matter how crap the machine is). Quake 3 won't run on anything less than a Cray.

If you can't run it on yours, it's down to the setup of your machine and the way it interacts with Sentience. I cannot take into account every possible machine variation, nor do I intend to try.

Quake3 was written in a couple of languages (C and Asm I think). Sentience was written in VB - hardly world reknowned for it's game creating capabilities.

The game, in its current stages, is provided free of charge on the condition that people who play it provide a little bit of feedback. I wasn't under the impression that Quake3 was free...

If people can't get it to work, I'll do my damndest to fix their problem, speaking to each person individually to fully understand the background of the fault. Do you get personal 1 to 1 support from the developers of Quake3, or do you get a premium rate number to call?

Basically, I've spent altogether too much time on a problem I can't duplicate and which only appears to occur on machine that people have tinkered with.

As far as I'm concerned the problem is a moot one. Sentience runs on a clean machine, which is pretty much all I can hope to achieve. I cannot take into account the setup of everyones machine in the whole world so I'm not even going to try.

If you can Sentience to work then good, enjoy a free game, if not - you've lost nothing. If you really, desperately want it to work - then clean your machine otherwise go and play Quake3.