. . .And that was the happiest day of my life

Ever since the crash, I've been living in a world without Quake. A month without Quake is tough. I found myself mentally firing rockets at various people in the real world.

Shortly after my Linux box crashed I got a new computer. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get Quake to run on it. Running the game resulted in a unresponsive white screen. Well, it wasn't entirely unresponsive. If I pressed the Enter key the game (white screen) would exit. Beautiful.

For weeks I've been trying to use the power of the interweb to solve my white screen of death. The gaming forums were uninformative and infuriating. If you've ever tried to solve a problem this way, you know the routine:

person #1:
subject: Help! Getting white screen trying to run quake3 on OSX.
I installed the latest patch of quake3 on my new mac...person #2:
subject: re: Help! Getting white screen trying to run quake3 on ...
Did you install the latest patch?

person #1:
subject: re: re: Help! Getting white screen trying to run quake3 ...
Yes I did. argh!!

person #2:
subject: re: re: re: Help! Getting white screen trying to run ...
hummmm...works fine on my new mac.

completely random jackass:
subject: re: re: re: re: Help! Getting white screen trying to ...
I just installed quake. It's awesome! I'm getting 500 frames per second. Yeah!

person #1:
subject: re: re: re: re: re: Help! Getting white screen trying ...
Never mind. I found my problem.

sparrowlegs:
subject: re: re: re: re: re: re: Help! Getting white screen ...
Can you post your solution?

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OMFG! Shoot me.

I finally got Quake to run of my new computer¹. Sigh. Now I can uninstall the Methadone Quake replacement games: Cube, Sauerbraten, and Unreal Tournament 2004 (yawn).

I'm sure I'll get complaints from my wife about the speed of our internet connection as I download all of the maps and mods.

¹ I doubt anyone cares...but here is the solution.