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"Bill M." <wbmcl@removexcite.com> wrote in message 
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> "BelPowerslave" <Belpowerslave@ev1.net> wrote in
> news:1129665851.728331.244430@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>> I just installed Quake on Windows XP last night. It was the latest
>> release(1.09) and came with Quake, WinQuake and glQuake. Of course, I
>> had to update glQuake, pitch the damn opengl.dll thing, etc, but I got
>> it to work. Being relatively new to Windows, I had a little bit of a
>> hard time with that bullshit "command line resolution change" thing
>> that gl makes you do(why couldn't they have let you do this in the
>> game, like the Mac version does?)...but I got past it(found a post
>> talking about creating a text document with the res. change screen,
>> then saving it as ".bat").
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1. Can glQuake achieve any higher res than 1024X768? Anytime I try
>> *anything* higher I get something along the lines of "resolution not
>> supported". I was playing Mac Quake at 1280X1024...I find it hard to
>> believe that the PC version couldn't do that same...
>
> I just now reinstalled it for nostalgia reasons. Hopefully there's some 
> net
> activity for DM.
>
> I'm trying to edit the config.cfg file and add a .bat file but so far no
> luck. My recollection after almost 8 years is nil.
>
>> 2. The sound sampling rate...11025? You've got to be fucking kidding
>> me. Is it possible to jack that up to, at least, 22100 or
>> even(hopefully) 44100? If so, is this something I'd put in the same
>> ".bat" document I had to make up to get glQuake to run in 1024X768?
>
> This from one of the Quake .txt files:
>
> SSPEED
>  Syntax: -sspeed <speed>
>  Description: This will ask the sound code to set the playback speed
>    within the constraints of the capabilities of the card.  This is
> 11025 Hz by default and usually from 8000 to 44100.  Making this
> faster requires more CPU horsepower, and has no actual benefits,
> because the sounds only contain 11 KHz data.  Making this slower
> degrades sound quality, but improves performance and saves memory.
>
>> Any help would be most appreciated...I loved Quake back on the Mac, but
>> do to this new monitor I've bought, believe it or not, it simply won't
>> run(the screen and refresh rate change crashes it every time). Am
>> loving Quake on the PC, would just like to jack up the options as much
>> as possible. :)
>
> How do you set the mouselook to always be on? And how to adjust the gamma?
> It's way to dark. I'm running GLQuake.exe.
>
> Bill M.

in the autoexec.cfg
Quake.
Aw man, hold this thread a bit, I gotta get a vid card in the other puter 
that has all that stuff installed and running.   I'll just post the contents 
of my autoexec.cfg file for ya'll.
McG.