Help please! No video on Qrack or Joequake

[Mykell]

I have an older secondary system, its running an Athlon 700 mhz processor with 128mb of ram and a S3 Savage 32mb video card and Sound Blaster Pro. I am running XP Home SP2 and Directx 9.0c.

With this system, Quake runs fine.

I installed Qrack and got the standard error of could not find Glide2... whatever and followed the instructions and renamed the Opengl32.dll to Opengl32.old. The system no longer gave me the error and attempted to load the game. After a few moments I can hear the game running the demo loop, but I can not see anything. (its not just dark, but totally black).

I tried loading Joequake and got the same results.

If I go back and use the original quake icon to load the game, it will play normally and I can still view the game.

This makes me think it may be something to do with my Video Card, but I am not sure.

Any suggestions or tips to get this working on my secondary system would be greatly appreciated. I have a nephew and neice that love playing with me, and would like to get it working under Qrack or one of the other advancements.

[scar3crow]

Does it do this with glquake or a simple gl engine like fitzquake?

[Mykell]

GLQuake will load to the first screen when it tells you what initializes and then the screen wont move from there, you can still quit out to desktop if you hit escape and use the arrow keys to select the correct option.

I have not tried Fitzquake, I will download it and try it. But Win Joequake does load and run, if that helps.

I will post again once Fitzquake is tried, and thanks for the help, it is appreciated.

[Mykell]

Fitzquake is installed and does the same thing. Goes to a black screen ... any ideas?

[scar3crow]

Well its definitely video and not the games themselves (otherwise you wouldnt hear a thing or be able to navigate out of it through the menus).

Do any other games behave this way ?

[Baker]

Mycell, I am extremely certain that the video card you have does not support GLQuake of any type.

If you'd like to play Quake on that computer, your best option would be JoeQuake.exe, which is the non-GL build of JoeQuake.

JoeQuake.exe has plenty of advances over winquake.exe, including the demo menu, maps menu, command completion, unique crosshairs, but lacks the cool effects and graphics of JoeQuake-gl.exe.

You might try D3DQuake, a Direct3Dish Quake build that might work on that system (and might not) and is similar to GL.

http://dxquake.sourceforge.net/

[scar3crow]

Hrmm... Im pretty sure S3 Savage can do opengl, its an older card, but it does have 32megs on it... Cheapy or LordHavoc would be good to ask about such, they know older videocards quite well.