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Article #75662Re: Quake 1 question
From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:17
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:17
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:30:42 GMT, CMC <cmconrad@eastlink.ca> wrote: >I have a full version of Quake for DOS (paid for). The problem is >after about 15-20 minutes of game play the screen goes black and I >have to quit and restart the game. Has anyone heard of this problem >before and/or experienced it themselves? And has anyone found a >solution to the problem? > Haven't heard of that one... there may be an option in the bios that automatically turns off the monitor after ~15 minutes, which could be causing the problems. My best advice at this time is to experiment with the following console commands: - gamma - vid_mode, vid_testmode, vid_forcemode, menu_video (vid_describemodes to list available choices) - v_cshift (default = 1 1 1 1)
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