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Re: Quake 2 install probs - please help

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From: fi... Shaggy
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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On Mon, 24 May 1999 18:24:45 +0100, "[Woo]Chicken Man"
<mi...@tesco.net> wrote:

>Hi
>I have just borrowed Quake 2 from my friend, and when the Windows Install
>Wizard loads, I get this msg
>"Quake 2 cannot be installed on a system with this language Windows 95/NT"
>WTF is going on there?

it's a sort of anti priate measure splitting the world up into zones
so if you brought Q2 in europe it wouldn't install in the USA it's a
measure to protect distributors.

check your regional settings in control panel , change them to match
your friends it should install then
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Subject: Re: Quake 2 install probs - please help
Date: 1999/05/25
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