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Thread ID: 26748	2002-11-04 20:27:00	quake3 white screen problem	yang11 (170)	Press F1

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95922	2002-11-04 20:27:00	when I started my q3a at home, all I could see is white screen. it used to be fine. and my UT2003 demo wont run either citing some txture insertion failure. I uninstalled some programs like edonkey2000(including that mmod.exe), apache 2.xxx and Serv-U. reinstalled video driver, still the same problem. any ideas? many thanks in advance.	yang11 (170)
95923	2002-11-04 20:41:00	It's sounds like OpneGL or Direct3D might be screwed (I'm guessing you're using OpenGL - does Quake3 even support Direct3d?). I had a similar problem with HL a while back that I track down to an entry one a kid's game from the library had writtin into win.ini. I took it out and all was sweet. This sounds similar, so try backing up win.ini and then deleting the original. Windows will create a fresh and clean one (Win9.x) when you reboot.	Biggles (121)
95924	2002-11-05 03:11:00	Quake 3 does support Direct3D. Usually you'll see the warning in Quake 3 if it was linked to Opengl or Direct3D because it won't run and will show you a flashing blue and red text in a dialog box. I think Q3 is hanging at the intro. Q3 demands a lot of CPU usuage and could possibly be hanging because of this. You should look in the Q3 config and disable the intro from loading and that may get you to the main menu without it hanging. Have you tried pressing ESC when the white screen shows?	~qwerty (2369)
95925	2002-11-05 04:55:00	Quake3 is OpenGL only. there is a mod to run it on directX drivers.	tweak'e (174)
95926	2002-11-05 20:48:00	thanks for all you guys. the problem disappeared 24 hours later. unfortunately I still dont know what caused that. I am suspecting that edonkey2000 thing. 48 hours ago, in a rush to download something, I installed edonkey. and I DID find out mmod.exe/edonkey crashes my IE6. hence I would think edonkey played a practical joke on me.	yang11 (170)
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