Is steam Quake 2 working for anyone under Windows 7 ??

chaparral · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:21

I just tryed loading quake 2 from the ID super pack and it's crashing striaght away...

Is it working for anyone else with window 7 64bit ??

Tute · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:24

Works fine here, Win7 x64.

Latest drivers installed etc.?

chaparral · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:29

Tute said:
Works fine here, Win7 x64.

Latest drivers installed etc.?

Wonder if it because your using a ATI GPU card :confused:

Obeserved the same problem following nvidia driver update to 195.62. nHancer note above re-enabled Q2. Thanks

I see people having same problem on the steam forums
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1039737

Tute · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:30

Tried disabling SLi?

chaparral · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:44

I got it working using R1Q2 http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/

chaparral · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:50

Playing this game don't half bring back memorys.......

Seeing Quake 2 running iin 3D on a voodoo1 card was what got me into PC gaming all them years ago..

paradigm · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:51

Works fine for me too, however I can't get Q1 (or any of it's expansion packs) to run in anything other than 640x480

I can set -width -height and -bpp from the launch options, but it causes GLquake to crash

chaparral · 26 Dec 2009 at 12:03

paradigm said:
Works fine for me too, however I can't get Q1 (or any of it's expansion packs) to run in anything other than 640x480

I can set -width -height and -bpp from the launch options, but it causes GLquake to crash

Have a look here http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Id_Super_Pack

Yes this works for quake 1...Am now playing quake 1 at 1920x1200

Evilsod · 26 Dec 2009 at 12:29

Yeah theres a load of stuff available for the oldies.

I know the whole ID collection like Doom, Heretic and Hexen can be run through a program that enhances the graphics a little and gives you mouse look and configurable controls. Seriously theres nothing like jumping onto the old classics with a fan made update.

MeMeMeMe · 26 Dec 2009 at 14:04

chaparral said:
Have a look here http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Id_Super_Pack

Yes this works for quake 1...Am now playing quake 1 at 1920x1200

Awesome! i knew there had to be a way. I can't wait to play through the original Quake again.

I remember some quake mods to upgrade the graphics - GLQuake, ands similar. Are they still around, and do they work with the steam version?

chaparral · 26 Dec 2009 at 14:12

MeMeMeMe said:
I remember some quake mods to upgrade the graphics - GLQuake, ands similar. Are they still around, and do they work with the steam version?

I saw some high res texture mods/packs for Q2

while i was looking for the fix..

But i haven't tryed any of them yet..

Tute · 26 Dec 2009 at 17:37

I downloaded ZDoom and set it up in the .bat files so that Steam loads it instead of the older version. Much better.

arc@css · 27 Dec 2009 at 09:44

If you want to enable mouse look in Quake 1 then just type +mlook in console.

stooeh · 27 Dec 2009 at 16:01

chaparral said:
I just tryed loading quake 2 from the ID super pack and it's crashing striaght away...

Is it working for anyone else with window 7 64bit ??

Tried it and got the same. Edited the renderer in config.cfg to software and it loaded okay. Did a search for opengl fix and found this on steam forums:

"I had a problem getting RTCW to run in the id super pack, and someone suggested installing nhancer and finding the game profile and going to compatibility --> opengl --> extension limit --> set to 4844."

Added a new profile to nhancer (no quake2 one was there) and stuck in above and it works now