Re: Quake 2 on Windows XP ?

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From: Mad.Mutt
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:53

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Mad.Mutt wrote:
> terry bryant wrote:
> 
>> can anyone tell me how to run Q2 on XP?
>>  
>> it would not run properly when i tried it - i presume i require some 
>> kind of patch
>>  
>> thanks....TERRY
> 
> 
> 
> Hell - that'll be my current problem. Let me know how you go getting 
> around this issue please.

Well, fixed my problem. It was odd. Even attempting to adjust resolution 
and color depth in Windows was giving me a blank screen.

Did a number of things... and finally it's all good again.

Did a System Restore
Turned off all the desktop/multi-screen nView display options
Turned off doublescan
Changed refresh rate.

Don't know what had caused the problem, but it was very screwed up for a 
while.

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