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Article #274883Re: changed cd drive - games freezes
From: Marsh
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:59
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:59
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pudj wrote: > "Marsh" <D...@rr.com> wrote in message news:3E00DE26.30F2AA87@si.rr.com... > > I changed my cd drive to an internal tdk velocd.. all works fine except > > Quake3 freezes now. I put the old cd drive back and the game still > > freezes. I re-installed Q3 and it still happens. Any ideas? > > whats the spec of your machine eg m/board processor ect: a pIII dell xps b 733.. I noticed last night that it seems to be an opengl issue.. I turn that off and no more freezing, can't jump as high though... I had the glsetup.110.exe installed and deleted that for glsetup.121.exe and it still freezes when using it. I've never had any problems before.. even single player freezes if I use opengl. The vid card is a geforce2 gts pro.
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