and no im not pumping my voodos by running it on a machine with a cpu that can take the heavy payload

ok its not one voodoo2 but 2 in sli but still hehe.
for comparison trying that with darkplaces crashes my old pc with out of resources message :/
still darkplaces does it quite well with the media at hand but quake was newer ment to run like that.
as for X-Real i agree that it should have had more followers the engine is rather nice, it can be made to play allmost anything. still its mostly quiet on the site.