Quake won't stretch across my screen at 640x480

[omicron]

And other resolutions too. I'm on a new format and I have big black boxes to the either side of my quake. Why won't quake wide screen maximize? I'm on PQ 3.5

[Phenom]

Try putting -width 1440 -height 900 in your command line or whatever your monitor's native resolution is.

[Polarite]

Yea u can add that to commanline ,or just upgrade to one of the new proquake version from baker.

[talisa]

solution, get darkplaces: LordHavoc's DarkPlaces Quake Modification
no more problems like that

[Mindf!3ldzX]

your using a 4:3 ratio on a 16:9ish screen

[omicron]

Update: Got it to stretch with 1280 x 800 but it has also been doing this weird thing where my screen flashes with very large thick lavender horizontal bars that move. This happens every 30 seconds to a minute or so. Any ideas what this bug is? Quake is in compatibility mode for windows xp.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Using ProQuake 3.50 still?

[omicron]

4.51 Should I even have it in compatibility mode? What is this bug?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

no, compatibility mode isn't required. All the newer clients are updated.

ProQuake 451 comes with

d3dpro451.exe <- should work flawlessly
dx8pro451.exe <- should work flawlessly (recommend)
glpro451.exe <- should work.
wqpro451.exe <- should work,unless your on ATi/AMD ,they hate software variants.

this is my experience with ProQuake451