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Article #74161Re: Quake won't start in Windows XP
From: Shaggy
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:00
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:00
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:27:50 +0100, spam@recycle.bin (Lordy) wrote: >> 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 ? it's the ever popular delete quake\opengl32.dll to get glquake to work story mixed with trying to install dos quake on XP along with an original US quake CD which needs a key to unlock the full game
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