Hello everyone.
Laser Arena is an old game (runs on modified quake 1) that has a special feel to it and I would like to play it again. However, I am running into a crash when trying to run the game in hardware renderer mode (where the game doesn't look like minecraft and has non-stop-motion animations).
I'm on a Lenovo thinkpad yoga running windows 8.1, intel 4400 graphics. Windows crash report says that the error is BEX (Buffer overflow) and error code is c0000005, which is memory access violation. Figures.
What I got this far:
Ran in compatibility mode (applied to all executables) - nope
Disabled Data Execution Prevention (took more time than it should have) - nope
Ran in winXP/win98 emulator in VMware - runs, but graphics are an anti-aliased glitchfest running at 2 FPS max
There's probably some more stuff I might have forgotten about
Currently trying Microsoft Application Compatibility toolkit, but the fact LA_GL.exe must be run via launcher is making this extra difficult. I think the launcher simply feeds the LA_GL with a bunch of launch parameters, that I do not know and if they are missing, simply displays a window saying "Please run LaserArena.exe". Is there a list of launch parameters for Quake somewhere?
I also tried to run the game with nGlide and checking the Voodo1/2/Banshee in video settings, but got some specific errors that I will try looking into later.
This thread may seem like I just want some launch options, but the ultimate goal is to get this thing to run on new hardware. Any help is apreciated.
Laser Arena is an old game (runs on modified quake 1) that has a special feel to it and I would like to play it again. However, I am running into a crash when trying to run the game in hardware renderer mode (where the game doesn't look like minecraft and has non-stop-motion animations).
I'm on a Lenovo thinkpad yoga running windows 8.1, intel 4400 graphics. Windows crash report says that the error is BEX (Buffer overflow) and error code is c0000005, which is memory access violation. Figures.
What I got this far:
Ran in compatibility mode (applied to all executables) - nope
Disabled Data Execution Prevention (took more time than it should have) - nope
Ran in winXP/win98 emulator in VMware - runs, but graphics are an anti-aliased glitchfest running at 2 FPS max
There's probably some more stuff I might have forgotten about
Currently trying Microsoft Application Compatibility toolkit, but the fact LA_GL.exe must be run via launcher is making this extra difficult. I think the launcher simply feeds the LA_GL with a bunch of launch parameters, that I do not know and if they are missing, simply displays a window saying "Please run LaserArena.exe". Is there a list of launch parameters for Quake somewhere?
I also tried to run the game with nGlide and checking the Voodo1/2/Banshee in video settings, but got some specific errors that I will try looking into later.
This thread may seem like I just want some launch options, but the ultimate goal is to get this thing to run on new hardware. Any help is apreciated.
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