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Article #274884Re: changed cd drive - games freezes
From: Mac
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:39
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:39
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"Marsh" <D...@rr.com> wrote in message news:3E023289.E37A9B95@si.rr.com... | 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. | | | I thought nvidia card users should be using the open gl set with the drivers from www.nvidia.com -- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bininside/
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-win.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Mac" <MacEVOME...@ntlworld.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake3 References: <3E00DE26.30F2AA87@si.rr.com> <attbef$qni$1@newsreaderm1.core.theplanet.net> <3E023289.E37A9B95@si.rr.com> Subject: Re: changed cd drive - games freezes Lines: 37 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: <JMsM9.3371$U5.7681@newsfep4-win.server.ntli.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:39:25 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.106.111.26 X-Complaints-To: ab...@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-win.server.ntli.net 1040341161 213.106.111.26 (Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:39:21 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 23:39:21 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit