Pictures of Quakecon LAN setup.. It's the worlds largest..

[Raedon]

http://www.quakecon.org/images/2003/setup2003.322f.jpg
This is a different location then where it has been held in the past.
Last year it was in a large cement warehouse looking place on the
bottom floor of a hotel. This looks much nicer (though it won't
matter when the lights are off.)


http://www.quakecon.org/images/2003/setup2003.082.jpg
This year's BFG (Big F'n Generator)


http://www.quakecon.org/images/2003/setup2003.350.jpg
Enough CAT5 to network a large business is strung out..


http://www.quakecon.org/images/2003/setup2003.208.jpg
Patchers Patching

http://www.quakecon.org/images/2003/setup2003.198.jpg
Admin. Admin'ing

[D_N_G]

ill be there either tonight for BYOC setup (if the kid falls asleep soon) or early in the AM :D

[Raedon]

I used all my Vacation time up so I'm headed there Friday night and get on the BYOC waiting list.. Usually by noon Saturday several people leave.

[punkoffgirl]

Wow, that IS a nice lookin' place. About how many people go to this? How many can play at once?

[Raedon]

Wow, that IS a nice lookin' place. About how many people go to this? How many can play at once?

There are 2000 spots for computers.. over 10,000 will show up without a PC.


Quakecon is a completely free event.. In fact the sponsors who have booths throw free stuff at you.. I walked off with 4 T-Shirts, 2 VIA chipset keychains, a LinkSys yoyo, and the ATI booth had all the free coffee, Bawls energy drinks, and soda you could drink.

[dave2236]

damn...that looks awesome.

too bad its quake.....now battlefield, I could win that tournament

[MarioAllStar2600]

HOLY CRAP! :o :o
That is going to be completly crazy, im confused though. Is it all going to be one game? Ora re there going to be like 5 different games going on?

[Raedon]

pretty much any software running an Id 3D engine can be played.

[punkoffgirl]

It's not going to be all 2000 people in one free-for-all game tho, right? What's the max number of players that can play together at once (as in versus eachother)?

[Raedon]

limited by game..
Most don't go over 16-32.. 64 I think is the max for some games.. most DM never goes over 16.

[Raedon]

http://www.homelanfed.com/images/jcal/qcon2k32.jpg
"welcome to Quakecon2k3.. please form 2 lines.. on the left, N-Z and on the right A-M"
"but shouldn't that be Left A through.. nevermind.."

http://www.homelanfed.com/images/jcal/qcon2k34.jpg
CLAN SiTSaRouND

http://www.homelanfed.com/images/jcal/qcon2k33.jpg
Nothing like a little puzzle gaming to kill some time.

http://www.homelanfed.com/images/jcal/qcon2k35.jpg
Last year Nvidia had a really craapy showing at Quakecon while ATI had a kick ass booth..
What happened? ATI became the Video card to have and Nvidia made mistakes all year.
This year they have seen the error in their ways.. Don't mess with the Quakecon Karma.

http://www.homelanfed.com/images/jcal/qcon2k31.JPG
I doubt that DOOM ]|[ could ever be darker then this picture.. O_O

[gamergary]

Nice pictures, must be hard to get a spot to play.

[Raedon]

Something that a lot of people have been asking about is the specifications of the machines which will be used in the tournaments. Well, my buddy Jeff from AMD just handed me that information which I am happy to share with you now:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 (engineering sample)
Motherboard: NVIDIA TOP SECRET nForce Motherboard Technology
Video: NVIDIA GeForce FX5900 Ultra GPU-based Leadtek Winfast A350 Ultra
RAM: 512MB DDR 3200
Hard Drive: Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM
Sounds like these are sweet machines!

If you are here in Dallas, you will definately want to swing by the NVIDIA booth. Once there, you can fill out a short survey and pick up a $100 rebate on their smoking fast GeForce FX 5900 cards. But that's not all. They'll hand you a slick Doom 3 T-shirt. And then, twice a day, the NVIDIA staff will secretly roam the halls looking for people wearing their shirts. Each time they will select a lucky shirt-wearer who will receive a 5900 hundred card of there own!