Re: shaggy

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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:27

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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 05:42:00 GMT, "racerX" <johnierod@home.net> wrote:

>hey m8, can you help me with a q2 problem please.
>i have a g force 4 video card, i have the latest drivers, i did a fresh
>install of q2, the game has never came up, it goes right to a black screen,
>with a
>" out of scan range " message.
>i have a new sony Trinitron monitor, witch supports up to 85 hertz.
>i have q1 and q3 installed, also wolfenstien and cod, no problems with other
>games.
>i deleted the cfg file, restarted the game, same problem, and of course the
>game regenerated the cfg.
>i see nothing wrong with the cfg file.
>my sony is set at 85 hertz, that should run q2.
>humm.

Add or change the following line to Config.cfg: 
set vid_fullscreen "0"

By default, Quake2 runs at 320x200 fullscreen in software rendering .
Seems like the monitor doesn't like that resolution for some strange
reason.

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