I guess my computer knowledge is in the middle range, but ANY reply to this would be much appreciated - if it’s out of my depth I can call on local friends to unravel it!!
System (new) is AMD Duron 800, 256K Ram, Windows SE, el cheapo video card from Jetway with NVidia chipset (apparently 5300 TNT2, 32Mb onboard RAM)
Quake2 just will not install. (I think that may be Win98SE, as it installed and ran fine on my old system with Win98)
Quake 1 installs, and runs fine under Windows, even at high res. BUT… weird fault if I try to run it under OpenGL. I get the “Starting Quake” message, but then my desktop reappears with low res. setting (640x480 at 16 bit.) And that’s it - it goes nowhere from there.
I installed the “all things to every computer” driver from the NVidia site - no joy. Tried the OpenGL setup routine from their site. (I think it’s detecting the wrong card, can’t be sure.)
Had a play today with RealArcade and downloaded some sample games (3D) and they work just fine - great graphics.
AAt one point, Quake was reporting a missing Glide2X.dll, which I copied across from my old system (getting desperate now!) into the Windows/System directory. Still no result.
I wonder if it may be Win98 SE that’s causing the problem here - mt CD of Q1 is quite old, now - and I’m puzzled that the error message I get when trying to install Q2 says something along the lines of “wrong language” (???)
Any hints, tips, workarounds, downloads or even a bit of sympathy would be MUCH appreciated. I’m no tech whizz, but I am patient - I’ve spent hours scouring FAQs on every site I can think of, but I’m beyond the level of my own knowledge. (But have probably learned a lot along the way!)
Your input gratefully received, folks… Thanks
Phil