Gregory's ServerIn Quake console command "showturtle 1" will show a little turtle icon in the top left corner of the screen when frame rate drops below 10 fps.
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26 Sep 2023 at 20:53 | Open on shigusegubu.club
  @dosnostalgic i rather vividly remember this from running quake on some less than amazing hardware. @dosnostalgic Funny that this HUD font is in QTest but then later reappears in Quake 3 Arena The turtle icon is present in Quake 2's PAK0.PAK file, this time in PCX format. The game has a scr_showturtle CVAR that defaults to 0. But there's no source code associated with it other than checking its value. Retail release (original 3.05 or latest 3.21) doesn't draw a turtle. 🤷♂️  @dosnostalgic iirc i repurposed this cvar for my Quake + NIN Ghosts I-IV mod: https://jp.itch.io/quake-ghosts (for checking if the "no monsters" functionality is enabled) @dosnostalgic Fire Fight would show a little animated snail when it thought performance was low!   @dosnostalgic so that's what that tortoise was for. I remember digging into the files and seeing it but I never caught that. Cool. If you saw me not noticing the legs and writing turtle before no you didn't. Ignore that indicator that this was edited in the corner. The file was actually named turtle. I remember that even without the image. :p  @dosnostalgic If you want to test this, remove the cooler from your gpu and wait a bit with quake running :neocat_devil: |