How to view in window rather than full screen

[Crew-Dough]

I would like to view the game in a window in order to stream the game on xsplit, but when i try pressing Alt+Enter the character jumps or I choose the menu. Is there a way to view this game in a window rather than in full screen? additionally is there a different way to get a window for GL compared to the original?

[JLaw]

For GLQuake I think you can use the -window option on the command line. For WinQuake I would imagine that you could just choose a windowed mode in the video settings menu, but I don't remember exactly.

I can check on it later this weekend if you or someone else hasn't found out for sure by then.

[JLaw]

Yep, WinQuake allows you to select windowed modes from the video options menu. 800x600 max.

For GLQuake you have to use the -window command-line option. You can set the resolution you want using the -width x and -height y command-line options (like -width 800 -height 600 for 800x600).

As negke mentioned in another thread, with the original GLQuake you'll probably also want to use the -bpp 32 command-line option to get 32-bit color.

Note that if you're using the version of GLQuake that comes with Steam, it's kind of old/crashy. Version 0.98 is available in various places like here: http://www.quaketerminus.com/nqexes/glquake098alpha.zip (throw away the opengl32.dll file from that and just use glquake.exe). Along with being more stable, 0.98 is preferable if you're playing with a window resolution that has a widescreen aspect ratio; version 0.98 will allow you to adjust FOV and a few other display issues as described in the Widescreen section of this guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=120426294


And BTW if you're not dead set on using one of the original Quake engines, there are several "modern" Quake engines built from the source release, which have good video options and other things to recommend them. You can choose whether you want to preserve the original graphics or play with new effects and stuff. This guide describes the most widely-used modern Quake engines:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=118401000

The other guide above can help with configuring them, although with modern engines you can do most or all configuration just using the in-game menus.

[Crew-Dough]

got it thanks

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

Winquake can also start in a window with -startwindowed (as opposed to -window, for some reason )