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Q3 Help?

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  • 26-03-2000 2:01pm
    #1
    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭


    Righty,

    I've gone Quake Cold turkey for the past two or three months and it's time to roll extravagantly off the wagon.

    I'm off out to purchase myself a spanking new shiny copy of Q3. Thing is, I tried installing the demo on my machine and nothing worked. It couldn't find the OpenGl support files.

    Computer has a V3 3dfx card. I tried d'loading the miniglsetup file but that doesn't help.
    I've tried the v3 driver on the 3dfx website, nada.

    Any suggestions? No point in getting the game if I can't install it.... frown.gif


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    #2
    amp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Well, I just fresh installed a while back and I just got the latest drivers from 3dfx and that did the trick. Mind you that was with the full version.
    Buy it anyway Lolth, I don't think there's a single v3 owner that hasn't had to over come a little trouble to get it working, but did in the end. Am I right? I think I am.
    Lunacy Abounds! Play GLminesweeper!


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    #3
    Illkillya
    Registered Users Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭Illkillya


    it says cannot exec openGL or something?
    same happened to me because the open gl was completely hidden on the cd. thought i would have to download something, but i found it in the end.


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    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Em, Wicked GL did fuppin' wonders fer my V3
    Can't remember where i got it tho - anyone know?
    It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.


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    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Yeah, I had a p1ssy time using Q3 before running "glsetup.exe", Quake3 just kept exiting back to the desktop, pain in the @rse.

    (..\Extras\glsetup.exe)


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    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    get the wickedgl drivers from the upsetchaps web site www.upsetchaps.com
    its under q3 and then game tweaks i think.
    it speeds up the game by a good few percent without having to do any tweaks and work on other games as well.
    and any games that dont use it, well, it just reerts back to the normal voodoo drivers. bit useful really.


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    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    Ok,

    got WickedGL. Only thing is, it doesn't INSTALL OpenGL drivers, it just changes them, so the games has to be installed before you run WickedGL on it.

    Q3 won't install because of a lack of OpenGL support.

    I'll get it anyway and see if I can find th GLsetup.exe. If not, then there'll be a cheap copy of Q3 for sale , brand new, only used once (and possibly jumped on a few times)

    Thanks.


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    Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Chaos


    glsetup is on the cd yah freak smile.gif
    www.gibworld.com/chaos
    Ps 0wns U



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    #9
    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    hmmm, maybe that's why I said

    "I'll get it anyway and see if I can find th GLsetup.exe".... I forgot that a student would be reading this, so I didn't specify every little detail. Add in "on the CD" to the end of that sentence.

    oh, and go get a job ya tax sponge!!!! :P


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