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How to force Quake 2 to use 32bit color

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First post, by candle_86

Posted on 2023-05-07, 18:00

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because of the God aweful steam version and the stupid RTX version finding information for the command line argument for how to enable 32bit color mode in quake 2 seems to have gone missing, its all about the stupid steam version or the stupid RTX version so what is the command line argument for Quake II to force 32bit color from the shortcut, its not GLquakes -bpp 32

Reply 1 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2023-05-07, 18:41

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gl_bitdepth, defaults to 0 (which uses the desktop's display depth)

So then you'd set up the shortcut like

"quake2 +set gl_bitdepth 32"

Reply 2 of 3, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2023-05-07, 18:50

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or add the set statement to autoexec.cfg

Reply 3 of 3, by candle_86

Posted on 2023-05-07, 23:30

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thank you, so by default it just uses my desktop color depth, so i can just swap between 32 and 16bit desktop?

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