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Article #276860Re: Help please - Quake 3 crashes on loading
From: Malc
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:04
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:04
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I get this problem as well, but only if I try to load Quake 3 without logging in to my ADSL account. Perhaps Quake knows that there is a network connection on the PC and is trying to get a response from it? "Thomas" <nospamhere@blueyonder.invalid> wrote in message news:_pk6a.4740$Yu6.39561236@news-text.cableinet.net... > Hi, > > Am trying to install Quake 3. > > Have a P4(1.5Gb)/256Mb/Matrox G200 (8Mb)/40Gb HDD running Win 98SE. > > Tried to do a minimal install and everything seems fine until you try to > load Quake 3 and I get a white screen and a mouse arrow. Nothing else and > the PC is locked up. snip
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