QUAKE 2-WINDOWS 10

[kenjasi75202]

QUAKE 2 WILL NOT START WITH CLAIM THAT RESOLUTION IS NOT AT OPTIMAL SETTINGS. HOW TO SET THE RESOLUTION WHEN I HAVE NO ACCESS TO QUAKE 2 GUI SETTINGS SCREEN?

[Kvaki]

lol

[nullis81]

use google, search for kmquake2, download it, copy the files over, run the kmquake2.exe, and u can play it, higher resolution support as well, theres also addons for the 2 mission packs

[margalus]

the vanilla Quake 2 works perfectly fine in Windows 10

[Jess]

First of all, Windows 10? What the ♥♥♥♥ are you doing with Windows 10?

[kenjasi75202]

Why does it seem sucha suprise that I have Windows 10? What yoy feel that I should not have wWindows 10?

[source]

Because Windows 10 is poo poo.

[-|Nur|-]

Windows 10 is awesome, like Win 7 but faster.

[_ _]

Use Yamagi Quake II version it works flawlessly

[Chungii]

It's something to do with default graphics setting. On my good PC I switched to run Nvidia card and that fixed it but my laptop with integrated intel card kept craashing to the same error. I found this:

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I had to go into the cfg files though to modify it: Steam\SteamApps\common\quake 2\baseq2\config.cfg and modify the line: set gl_driver "opengl" to set gl_driver "software"

The file wasn't there so I added it with driver set to software and it ran in a small window where I could increase screen to 1600 x 1200 res. I am running windows 10 on both.

[Willy Wynn]

Well this is quiet easy to resolve. Most of the problems with old games in the most recent windows versions like 10, 8 and 7 its because the most recent CPUs have also integrate graphics. And normally by default Windows have the "auto-select" option for the softwares choose each graphics to use and that is the reason why it causes crashes and games to not start, and that happens more with old games because the old games for some reason choose always the integrate graphics and that make all that issues because this cpu have different arquicture and use multi cores and so on, and tha old games are not optimize for that. You just need to go to Nvidia or AMD control painel and choose run only in Nvidia graphics or AMD graphics! You dont need to mess up and with config files, download crap from internet and so on... If you do that any old game runs normally with no problems at all. This fix works in windows 7,8 and 10. You cant even call a fix honesttly lol.

[Chungii]

Originally posted by Willy Wynn:

Well this is quiet easy to resolve. Most of the problems with old games in the most recent windows versions like 10, 8 and 7 its because the most recent CPUs have also integrate graphics. And normally by default Windows have the "auto-select" option for the softwares choose each graphics to use and that is the reason why it causes crashes and games to not start, and that happens more with old games because the old games for some reason choose always the integrate graphics and that make all that issues because this cpu have different arquicture and use multi cores and so on, and tha old games are not optimize for that. You just need to go to Nvidia or AMD control painel and choose run only in Nvidia graphics or AMD graphics! You dont need to mess up and with config files, download crap from internet and so on... If you do that any old game runs normally with no problems at all. This fix works in windows 7,8 and 10. You cant even call a fix honesttly lol.

As I mentioned if you have a PC with graphics card it's easy fix as per Willy Wynn suggestion. However, if you only have an integrated card and no other hardware I could only fix the problem by adding that one line into the config files.

[wild_blunt_hickok]

Originally posted by chungii.vee:

I had to go into the cfg files though to modify it: Steam\SteamApps\common\quake 2\baseq2\config.cfg and modify the line: set gl_driver "opengl" to set gl_driver "software"

Thanks for the tip that fixed it for me (I have intel only). But going underwater crashes the game.

[^7B0NE^2$^71967^2k^7ID]

I just got a new gaming pc win 10 and it rocks / I didn't want win 10 I was sold on win 7 but 10 is lots better

[Катя Михеева]

Originally posted by margalus:

the vanilla Quake 2 works perfectly fine in Windows 10

No

[margalus]

Originally posted by Целитель геморроя| trade.tf:

Originally posted by margalus:

the vanilla Quake 2 works perfectly fine in Windows 10

No

Yes, it really does.