Quake all White in Vista

[BizarroMonkey]

Is there a way to fix the all-white Quake problem? I'm sure someone else must have seen it. It's like the textures don't get loaded and you can see lighting but no textures. Kind of cool, but I don't want to play like this forever. My XP installation died so I have been urgently trying to make it work in Vista.

I really REALLY like my version of GLProQuake. I think it's 3.95 or something like that. Anyway, all my GLProQuake versions give me the white texture problem. If I run the original GLQuake, that works fine for some reason. So, I'm assuming I need to turn off some ProQuake visual feature to make things work ok. Any ideas?

[Baker]

Hey Monkey

Easy to fix ...

Is there a way to fix the all-white Quake problem? I'm sure someone else must have seen it. It's like the textures don't get loaded and you can see lighting but no textures. Kind of cool, but I don't want to play like this forever. My XP installation died so I have been urgently trying to make it work in Vista.

I really REALLY like my version of GLProQuake. I think it's 3.95 or something like that. Anyway, all my GLProQuake versions give me the white texture problem. If I run the original GLQuake, that works fine for some reason. So, I'm assuming I need to turn off some ProQuake visual feature to make things work ok. Any ideas?

Even without upgrading you should be able to fix the problem by adding -no8bit to the command line.

The problem is that your video card is lying to ProQuake telling it that it supports the 8 bit palette texture OpenGL extension when it doesn't. There isn't a speed difference between the two, so in the latest update I made -no8bit the default since this has evolved to be a somewhat common problem.

[ProQuake 3.99x doesn't have the all white screen problem.]

[ORL]

Just use -no8bit in your command line and that will more than likely solve the problem. I have to use -no8bit as well, otherwise everything is white.

[BizarroMonkey]

That worked out nicely. Thanks for the help! You both have honorary Bizarro powers.

[R00k]

This happens to me on my Nvidia Geforce 8800gt with PQ3.99 on Windows XP.
It's possibly a driver issue not Vista. -no8bit works for me too. It's not just ProQuake though, seems it happens to me for stock GLQuake and Tyr-Quake.
But not BJPQuake or FitzQuake, etc...