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I used to play Quake I on a P1 Windows 95 laptop. That worked fine. Now I have a P4 2.4 GHZ and Windows XP. No such luck with the game this time. I have the full version on the computer, and when I try to run QUAKE.EXE, I get this message inside a DOS box:
Quote:Quake v1.06
Locked 1 Mb image
Locked 11 Mb data
malloc'd: 11825152
Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
General Protection Fault at eip=000452cb
eax=fc32046c ebx=0011f260 ecx=0000ffff edx=fc320000 esi=00000054 edi=000db354
ebp=0011b34c esp=0011b2a8 cs=01a7 ds=01af es=01af fs=01cf gs=01cf ss=01af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x000452cb
Any ideas folks?
f only life let you press CTRL-Z.
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1. Download VDMSound. After you install it, right click on quake.exe and select, "run with vdmsound."
2. Download Dosbox. Treat it like a command prompt after you mount your C drive, or whatever drive that contains quake.
That's about all that I can recommend at this point.
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Quake would be a slideshow in DOSBox...I'd recommend trying a native win32 port of Quake, like
GLQuake or
Tenebrae.
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GLQuake did the trick, thanks Plasma.
Barok, I already tried VDMS with no luck.
A correction, by the way, I have the SW version. Kazaa doesn't list any full version downloads of Quake 1, oddly enough.
Two problems now: a) the gfx are really bad - random red dots all over the place and very poor vision underwater, and b) the strip that tells you your ammo, health, armour, etc., is just a big solid red bar. Maybe that's related to it being the SW version?
f only life let you press CTRL-Z.
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Yeah, I think GLQuake is only supposed to be used with the full version of Quake. Tenebrae seems to work pretty good with the shareware version though.
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Tenebrae's developers are extremely presumptuous...
"Just buy a new card, since they are all very old."
Yup...just give me $220US so I can buy one of the supported cards. :roll:
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Yes, because a GeForce2 is
soooooo expensive :roll:
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I could even send you my old one if you wanted...
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Well, you can get a Windows port of the Quake engine. There are some of them that add nice effects so the game looks actually better.
The main, basic one is GLQuake. There are quite a few, some of them are listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_engine
It's always a matter of copying the files into your quake folder then launch the executable. You'll be able to play at hi-res with extra effects and as a native Windows app, which gives you stability.
(btw, I use Twilight mainly, but sometimes I like to play using Tenebrae and the new texture packs :o )
Btw, you should enter the Quake I world by downloading some of the few total reconversions available in the net. I mean, a whole new game using the engine
some of them are quite good. You can also try level expansions. Lotsa fun!
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u need a floating-point processor. It won't work on mine either.