Anyone have a Dell XPS Gen2 laptop?

[ORL]

Dell, That's the problem.

Dell's are not bad. I've had this Dell Dimension E510 for several years now and it has never once gave me any kind of problem. How can you blame Dell for something that happens in-game?

But uh, I've always heard laptops are not meant for gaming of any kind so, maybe we do have a problem.

[Baker]

I don't have anything useful to say regarding the non-Quake problems, but if you use ProQuake 3.99q and don't use the -gamma parameter, you can type "contrast 2" in the console and Quake will be VASTLY brighter. (default contrast is 1).

[foq]

Dell

That's the problem.
AS for the screen being red during battles, that's an effect in Quake when you get hurt. You probably had it turned off in your autoexec or something with some weird setting.

As for the COD4 disc not working, try when you put it in wait for 30 seconds or so and go to start < my computer < whatever drive letter the disc drive is (probably D), right click on it and select autoplay. Or right click explore and look for something like setup.exe.

[Quazy]

I just bought a Dell XPS Gen2 laptop. 2.13ghz, 80gb, 1gb memory, Geforce 6800 256mb vid card...

I have messed with the color and video settings, but its over my head. There is a million different settings!! Quake in general looks very dark(yes I turned up the brightness on both the laptop and in quake)...My screen turns dark red and I cant see much at all when in a battle while playing. Other then this, it is unbelievably fast and smooth when playing. Does anyone out there use one of these laptops to play? How are you adjusting the settings? All websites, and everything else is nice & bright and full of colors.

Also I bought call of duty 4, I installed it on my old laptop (Dell 1150) but it would not play it because of my graphics card not being good enough. I then tryed to install it on this new XPS and it wont even play the CD install disc at all? Do these new game CD's only allow you to install them on 1 computer? lol...Its wierd, all other CDs, dvds, etc..play just fine on this XPS and the call of duty cd works fine in my 1150 laptop?