When you play Quake3A in Windows XP, Quake may quit abnormally. Well Microsoft now has a supported fix.

Update: here's the Microsoft page for this fix Article ID: Q308361

Download the "Windows XP Application Compatibility Update


The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

24-Sep-2001 16:10 5.1.2600.14 1,229,824 Acgenral.dll

24-Sep-2001 16:10 5.1.2600.14 370,688 Aclayers.dll

24-Sep-2001 16:10 5.1.2600.14 45,568 Aclua.dll

24-Sep-2001 16:10 5.1.2600.14 204,288 Acspecfc.dll

24-Sep-2001 16:10 5.1.2600.14 148,480 Acverfyr.dll

24-Sep-2001 16:10 5.1.2600.14 105,472 Acxtrnal.dll

12-Oct-2001 21:56 189,750 Apphelp.sdb

24-Sep-2001 16:11 81,408 Apps.chm

10-Oct-2001 11:22 5.1.2600.15 1,181,184 D3d8.dll

12-Oct-2001 21:56 8,140 Drvmain.sdb

12-Oct-2001 21:56 134,388 Msimain.sdb

12-Oct-2001 16:08 6.4.2600.0 356,352 Qdvd.dll

12-Oct-2001 21:56 1,032,922 Sysmain.sdb

12-Oct-2001 19:04 5.6.0.6914 483,379 Vbscript.dll