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Article #1Re: * Help! Quake won't run.
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:00
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Rubbish I run quake qw glquake q2 the lot with win98. Nina Harrison heeft geschreven in bericht <366F327F.CC5C05A7@erols.com>... >As I understand it, the original Quake does not run under Windows 98 unless you >boot from DOS. It is the prime reason I have not upgraded yet! > >Jon Yeager wrote: > >> I just bought a new computer and now I can't get Quake or GLQuake to run. >> Both give me the following error : The first DOS window will load up a >> second window (with the rocky background texture) but only for a split >> second. Almost immediately, that 2nd window disappears, leaving me with the >> first and nothing else (the one that calls qlaunch with the -mpath >> extension). Nothing is on my windows toolbar, and nothing is on my >> desktop - except for this useless 1st window. >> >> (Typically, the first window would open up the 2nd, which would open up the >> 3rd in full screen size where the game is played. That's when it worked.) >> >> My configuration is : >> >> - BX motherboard >> - Matrox Millennium G200 video card >> - Diamond Monster II (12 megs) >> - Soundblaster Live! sound card >> - 256 megs of RAM >> - P2/400mhz CPU >> >> Can anyone tell me why I can't run Quake with this setup? I have the latest >> SBLive drivers (released 3 days ago) because someone told me he had problems >> with his using Quake 2. >> >> Note: I tried running it in DOS mode (without the Windows shortcut) and it >> does the same thing : hangs at the qlaunch/mpath command line). And the >> exact same files (copy/pasted) work fine at the office. >> >> If this is a common problem, could someone send me the fix or instructions >> on how to rectify it? >> >> Thanks a million, >> >> JY >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11441b,5601a7280e4d8857 X-Google-Attributes: gid11441b,public X-Google-Thread: 10ba6e,5601a7280e4d8857 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ba6e,public X-Google-Thread: 101252,5601a7280e4d8857 X-Google-Attributes: gid101252,public X-Google-Thread: 108575,5601a7280e4d8857 X-Google-Attributes: gid108575,public From: "news.demon.nl" <clq@cdfire.demon.nl> Subject: Re: * Help! Quake won't run. Date: 1998/12/17 Message-ID: <914019337.7952.0.spot.d4ee317b@news.demon.nl> X-Deja-AN: 423749935 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cdfire.demon.nl:212.238.49.123 References: <uV782.57$83.207@weber.videotron.net> <366F327F.CC5C05A7@erols.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.nl 914019337 spot:7952 NO-IDENT cdfire.demon.nl:212.238.49.123 Newsgroups: rec.games,3dfx.games.glquake,alt.games,rec.games.computer.quake.playing