I have just downloaded the demo for Quake 2, for some MiniGL 1.49 testing. I installed this game on Windows 95, but when I go to launch it, the display freezes before the running demo/game begins. When I try to launch the game demo, I see on the screen a "blank looking window" displayed in a low resolution (320x200 ?), with a large mouse hourglass cursor pointer on it. At this point, I have to press the reset button on my mobo because the game demo has frozen.

I am using a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP video card, with the last reference drivers released by 3dfx. For another test, I used the same hardware, but with a Windows 98 SE HDD. That all worked. So, there's something "odd" about my Windows 95 set up. Any ideas please people? Thanks a lot for any advice.

Edit: This is a bit strange. I just installed Quake 1 shareware version 1.06, in Windows 95. After it installed, it automatically attempted to run, and then froze. It seems to freeze at the time when the CD-ROM drive is being checked to see if there is an audio CD in the drive to play music.

Solved! I did: Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager -> CD-ROM -> Properties -> Settings.

I then unchecked the DMA option. I also unchecked "auto insert notification". I'm not sure if that makes any difference. I just decided to do this anyway! The PC rebooted, and both Quake and Quake 2 now work.