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staplerpro
11-24-2011, 07:41 PM
I just bought Quake Arena & Team Arena yesterday, and neither of them work. I get the Steam message that Quake is preparing to launch but don't even make it to the menu screen.:confused: I use Windows 7 Enterprise, 32bit Intel(R) Graphics Family video card, with 4GB ram ad 2.10 GHz.

I have tried restarting/reinstalling, verifying files, replacing the config file with a friend's whose works, disabling desktop composition, disabling steam overlay, the isoquake thing which makes it so you can run quake without steam (and thus solving some bugs)..

I also looked at another topic here (I'm not sure if we have the same problem - I do not get a "Q3 has stopped working" error - I get no error and my system specs are different) and tried the following suggested by a user:
"
try throwing in a +set r_fullscreen 0 in the launch options.

it's also possible you have a Glide wrapper installed for some other game and Q3 is trying to force itself to use the Voodoo (that doesn't exist) so try +set r_glDriver "opengl32"
"

which did not work for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated - thank you :)

EmAr
11-25-2011, 05:55 AM
I think it's the same thing. I got the "Q3 stopped" message only twice or so :/

EmAr
11-26-2011, 07:32 AM
Hey, have you got any good luck in running the game? I gave up for now and will wait for tech. support for a while to respond. In the meantime I'll play with ioquake which can't play the sounds properly on my system :/

staplerpro
12-02-2011, 01:04 PM
hey sorry for the late feedback

no I gave up.. Haven't tried really.. It's not worth it to have to spend forever trying to fix a game :/ Wish I could just get a refund