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Re: Help please - Quake 3 crashes on loading

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From: RenVink
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:45
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"Thomas" <nospamhere@blueyonder.invalid> schreef in bericht news:lrc7a.8211$f_1.65611924@news-text.cableinet.net...
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> "RenVink" <RenVink@mailnet.wxw> wrote in message
> news:3e5d4258$0$6127$fb624cd1@news1.zeelandnet.nl...
> > "Thomas" <nospamhere@blueyonder.invalid> schreef in bericht
> news:ASa7a.8049$Wa1.64642271@news-text.cableinet.net...
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Yur Vid card must support OpenGL
> > Does it?
> >
> >
> As far as I know it does - it's a Matrox G200 (8Mb). (I am aware that this
> will not support the highest resolutions, etc, but if I cannot get to the
> opening menu screen, how on earth am I supposed to change the video
> settings...??
>
> And it ran the demo version of Quake 3 for a while until I could get a full
> version....! (Which I've only just tried to install, due to having too many
> other things I needed to do...!)
>
> Thomas
>
>

IC.. well I think it support's OpenGL just fine... not the latest card... but at lest you should be able to see the menu..

Well, for a start:
Check these settings in you 'quake3folder'/Baseq3/q3config.cfg file:

seta r_allowExtensions "1"
seta r_glDriver "opengl32"


Are they set like this?
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