My fucking awesome new computer

[MarathoN]

The origional won't run on XP so I boot with FreeDOS and it works a treat.

Weird, I can run it fine? :confused:

Only the demo?  Ouch, sucks for you.  You're missing a lot of great stuff.

I've played the full version many a time, and I love it.

[Aloone_Jonez]

What version are you running? Is it SP3?
Perhapps it could be that the Windows video driver isn't fully DOS compatable?

[MarathoN]

What version are you running? Is it SP3?
Perhapps it could be that the Windows video driver isn't fully DOS compatable?

That's odd, I can run it fine, I'm running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4. :confused:

[Aloone_Jonez]

I'm not runnign Windows 2000 I'm running Windows XP that's obviously why you can run Quake and I can't. If you read back I did say I was using XP. :rolleyes:

[MarathoN]

I'm not runnign Windows 2000 I'm running Windows XP that's obviously why you can run Quake and I can't. If you read back I did say I was using XP. :rolleyes:

Yes, I know you are running XP, but I thought you meant the windows video driver isn't fully DOS compatible on 2000/XP.

Sorry, I was mistaken.

[Aloone_Jonez]

The problem is probably nothing to do with video drivers and more to do with XP's inferior DOS emulation.

[MarathoN]

The problem is probably nothing to do with video drivers and more to do with XP's inferior DOS emulation.

I have great difficulty playing DOS games natively as well, just not Quake 1.

[Aloone_Jonez]

When you say you have problems playing games natively do you mean under plain old DOS like FreeDOS or MS-DOS booted from a boot disc or a FAT32 drive?

Because if it's under Windows NT/2000/XP it's not natvie but and emulated virtual machine.

[MarathoN]

Good point, I wish I could get FreeDOS working.

[Pathos]

easiest thing to do would be to make a FAT32 partition, install all your games in there and use dos boot disk, change to that partition then run.

Or use the ultimate boot disk to boot to freedos if you've already installed it.