Quake 3 running out of memory in Core 4?

[Thetargos]

I just got to install Quake 3 Arena for old time sakes in my computer running Core 4. However while selecting my character's model, before I get to the end of the list, Quake complaints about Low Memory. Here's a read out of `free` while it does this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515752     509220       6532          0      10256     209268
-/+ buffers/cache:     289696     226056
Swap:      5800676      31028    5769648

The strange thing is that Top shows that Quake 3 is using only 137Mb of Resident Memory (RES) and 200Mb of virtual memory (199 VIRT). Thes two readings were in two different runs of the game, so that's why (I belive) you don't see the 199Mb in the Swap section of the free read out.

Anyone noticed this? Or better said, anyone still playing this game enough as to note this??

The steps to reproduce/induce this error are:

1. Open up Quake3
2. Browse the models for your character until you run out of memory.
3. Check your memory usage and check Quake's memory usage.

Not a serious problem, but I found it to be... curious nonetheless.

TIA

[rayyes]

quake 3? damn i stopped playing that game long before i even though about getting into linux. Unreal is where it's at!

[Thetargos]

Yeah, UT2K4 and Doom 3. Which I regularly play, but I found this odd, since I wanted a quick loading bloodbath game, and NOTHING beats Q3 at that