Q2 client for Vista

[The Happy Friar]

I'm stuck with vista on a laptop atm.  I hate it.  it sucks sucks sucks SUCKS.  But I want to do some Q2 while I work on getting my XP box back up.  I tried r1q2 but the OGL/RGL but it runs less then 1fps.  Can't get software to work with r1q2.

Very aggravating. 

[R1CH]

Install video card drivers, if that doesn't help, your integrated video probably isn't good enough for gaming.

[ReCycled]

That's odd. I have an HP 17 inch laptop I just bought that has the POS Vista installed but Quake 2 worked flawlessly. I didn't even install it - just copied the whole c:\quake2 directory to it and the first time I ran it, no problem. When I connected to a server it gave me the "firewall" message and I said it was OK and I connected. I do not run r1q2 since it will not run either on my XP comp or Vista. And I don't feel like trouble-shooting it for hours to find out why. So its just Quake 3.21 for me.
Try just using vanilla Q2 3.21.

[MyDocuments]

Q2 works fine on Vista for me. Except I can't get used to the different mouse acceleration Vista uses, so I'm sticking with XP. I use R1GL btw. Like R1CH said, you may be using Vista's default video drivers which probably suck.

[The Happy Friar]

manually download & installing the latest drivers worked.  Strange as I ran an auto-update & it said it as up to date. Was actually 1 year old.   

[MyDocuments]

Auto update only updates MicroShaft drivers.