Was asking myself why this game runs badly when started from Windows, e.g. it stutters every second and you can't select any resolution beyond 800x600. There's no hint in the readme that it shouldn't be ran from Windows as well. And I know there's WinQuake, but it's a curious problem nonetheless
Just tried Quake in windows 98 and DOS:
- No stutters on either OS.
- The resolution is indeed limited under windows, and I suspect it is because the game does not allocate more then 8MB of RAM under Windows 98.
--> ISA Soundcard Overview // Doom MBF 2.04 // SetMul
in that case, you can add -winmem 16 or 24 to the parameters, which will also add resolutions beyond 800x600 (provided you have the VBE to back that up).
Quake was intended to support being run under Windows. Theres's even a batch file to start Quake using the Mpath TCP-IP driver in Windows.
The winmem parameter worked, but it's still kind of too fast and all jittery under Windows, especially with the lower resolutions. Weird.
DOS Quake never had any speed throttling 😀
can always compensate with a higher res, try vid_wait 1 or 2 or maybe even use a new dos quake port (which there's only two of).
Maybe so, but it simply doesn't do this under DOS, works fine there. My best guess would be some kind of incompatibility issue between 98 SE and this game...
