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Started by Recoil
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
Quake 2
Author: Recoil
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
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Right first off apologies for the crosspost but this is getting desperate. Quake 2 won't work and I am starting to get the shakes. I have recently had the win32/cih virus and after a really bad time trying to get rid of it I have finally succeeded. But now Quake 2 wont run at all. It starts, gives me a grey screen and then hangs the puter solid event old faithful ctrl+alt+del won't work I have to physically turn it off and on again. I have re-installed windows (though over the top of the old one) and I have re-installed Q2 Uninstalling then reinstalling into the old directories I have also tried uninstalling and re-installing into new directories and its the same story. I have checked the registry but at the end of the day I have no idea what should be there. I can think of nothing else I have done to upset the f"�$�$ thin. Everything else is running. It is an original version and the patch is from the extremities disk. I will put tech info in this post as it may help. But I have had no problems in the past and by the way a full reformat reinstall is not an option at the present time due to lack of backups and the amount of info on the pc. (I may have to wait to get a new HD if this is the only option but then whos to say this won't reoccur when I replace the files. I have an amdk62 333 matrox mystique g200 64 meg pc100 ram 3,2 gig western digital hard drive 40 speed cd rom (new today) creative pci128 soundcard phonicpro modem internal realtek 10/100 ethernet card (not currently plugged in to anything) and thats it really Please if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated If you don't want to reply to the newsgroups please do reply by email Thanks in advance Dave Dave@ufo.clara.newt (remove amphibian replace with net) http://www.ufo.clara.net aka:- Recoil....Dying on a server near you
Re: Quake 2
Author: Overlord.UK
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
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In article <36d6ea12.117307@news.clara.net>, Daveh@ufo.clara.newt says... > Right first off apologies for the crosspost but this is getting > desperate. Quake 2 won't work and I am starting to get the shakes. > > I have an amdk62 333 > matrox mystique g200 > 64 meg pc100 ram > 3,2 gig western digital hard drive > 40 speed cd rom (new today) > creative pci128 soundcard > phonicpro modem internal > realtek 10/100 ethernet card (not currently plugged in to anything) > and thats it really I notice you have a Matrox card... Personal experience, when I first got a Voodoo card I had a Matrox as well and the Voodoo would not work properly as you describe. After weeks of messing about it turned out that the Matrox was assigning itself to memories positions that the Voodoo would try to access when activated, the overlap crashing it instantly. Because the Voodoo was not permanantly active, it does not report a conflict. Milleniums were quite prone to this as well as Mystiques (which was what I had) I understand. This could possibly have been caried over into the G200 when used in combination with certain other peripheral combinations. I know this was fixed in Powerdesk 3.82 (for the Mystiques anyway), but this is the only thing I can think of that would perhaps be at cause. In "Control Panel/System/Display Adaptors/Matrox G200/Resources" there should be a few memory ranges that you are allowed to alter after unclicking the 'use automatic resource' option. If you are really deperate and know reasonably what you are doing you could try clicking them all up one increment at a time and see what effect it has. Obviously, make a note as to what the original setting was so you can restore it (via SAFE MODE) in the event of a problem and I take no responsibility for it if you decide to do so. If we never hear from you again tho we'll assume you failed, heh. The safe way to do this of course would be if you have a spare graphics card, even an old ISA cheapie. Slot it in, boot up and if Q2 works fine then you know there is a conflict from the Matrox. Also, Q2 has a variable that must be set for PCi soundcards otherwise you may get sound problems, shouldn't make it lock up tho. -- Overlord.UK A.K.A. Phil Webb mailto:pwebb@clara.net ClaraNET Customers Quakeworld Thrash http://welcome.to/claranet.thrash/
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