Re: Quake won't start in Windows XP

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From: Lordy
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:27

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> OK, I d/l'd glide2x.dll (which may or may not work - don't know yet).

GLide2x.dll is a driver that was included for 3Dfx cards, and will only 
work with 3Dfx cards, so there is no point in downloading it whatsoever.

> glquake is not telling me it won't run because it requires a registered
> version of quake. OK, so I've got a key to my shareware version of quake,
> but I can't figure out how to unlock quake since quake won't run on XP. This
> looks like a catch-22. Any ideas?

Most of this thread is missing, what is the actual problem ?



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Lordy

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