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bonzoronnie - 20/12/07 at 07:05 PM

I have Vista Home Premium running on my PC.

Yes I admit it. I am really that stupid

With me Back FUBAR'ed & Soooo cold in the worshop

I decided out of sheer boredom to install Quake 2 on the PC.

When the game is launched it will only play in a small window in the middle of the screen. Apart from that the game seems to run OK.

I have tried different compatability modes, all to no effect

Is there a way to resize this window or do I have to accept this piece of software will not play on Vista.

Ronnie

Mr Whippy - 20/12/07 at 08:15 PM

move closer to the screen

quake...that's soooo old, buy an xbox, I gave up with pc games, they never worked and cost a fortune

[Edited on 20/12/07 by Mr Whippy]

bonzoronnie - 20/12/07 at 08:39 PM



Me nose is already leaving snot on the screen.

Xbox ? Nooooo . I love playing with me joystick

Ronnie

Mr Whippy - 20/12/07 at 08:54 PM

I know you said you've tried different modes but does that include changing the screen resolution on windows, you may find that vista simply has a huge screen area for what was originally a fix pixel area on the game. Certainly doom was like that to speed up game play, indeed you could shrink doom down to a small square for super fast crazy battles.



[Edited on 20/12/07 by Mr Whippy]

muzchap - 20/12/07 at 09:56 PM

Nah - check the INI file


In the ini file/config file will be a set screen width and its obviously running windowed.

So change the option of windowed=0 and then set the resolution to whatever you feel - I'd recommend 1024x768 for maximum compatibility as it's a native resolution

Good luck!

[Edited on 20/12/07 by muzchap]

Mr Whippy - 20/12/07 at 10:24 PM

just buy an x-box and be done with it

RazMan - 20/12/07 at 11:19 PM

Vista can be a bit finnicky about some games. Quake is so old that it wasn't designed for anything later than XP (maybe even Win 95 !)

Just get a later game and think yourself lucky that you didn't get Vista 64 like me - that's even worse!

mcerd1 - 21/12/07 at 08:33 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
move closer to the screen

quake...that's soooo old, buy an xbox, I gave up with pc games, they never worked and cost a fortune

[Edited on 20/12/07 by Mr Whippy]

mine runs most stuff perfectly

I use XP Pro on a P4 630 with 2*NV6800 Ultra graphics (SLI'd) and SB X-Fi - its not exactly cutting edge anymore, but does the job nicely (especially considering its 3 years old)

some things don't work but they are mostly dos / 95 programs or need old style graphics - some of the dos ones work better on XP than they did on dos

some of the ancent games are really, really difficult - I've had some for more than 10 years and never completed them

bonzoronnie - 21/12/07 at 08:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by RazMan
Vista can be a bit finnicky about some games. Quake is so old that it wasn't designed for anything later than XP (maybe even Win 95 !)

Just get a later game and think yourself lucky that you didn't get Vista 64 like me - that's even worse!


Yes I stayed away from the 64 bit version of vista. I suspected a whole mountan of trouble with my rather ageing software.

Ronnie

DaveFJ - 21/12/07 at 10:11 AM

I'm running vista ultimate 64 with no real issues... some software needs some tweaking to get it running but it gets their in the end... most of my problems are down to a weird screen resolution required by my 42" Sony TV