Rotating the screen on WinXP

[Jim Heckel]

Sometimes when I play Quake III Tournament on WinXP, the game
spontaneously minimizes and the screen has rotated! By "rotated" I
mean that the image has turned so that the part of the screen that is
normally at the 12 o'clock position is now at the nine o'clock
position, and what was at the nine o'clock position is now at the six
o'clock position, and so on.

How do I change it back? More importantly, how do I "lock" the screen
into the proper position to ensure this won't happen again?

Thanks,
Jim Heckel

 

[Ed Metcalfe]

Sometimes when I play Quake III Tournament on WinXP, the game
spontaneously minimizes and the screen has rotated! By "rotated" I
mean that the image has turned so that the part of the screen that is
normally at the 12 o'clock position is now at the nine o'clock
position, and what was at the nine o'clock position is now at the six
o'clock position, and so on.

How do I change it back? More importantly, how do I "lock" the screen
into the proper position to ensure this won't happen again?

Thanks,
Jim Heckel

There are a variety of keyboard shortcuts that can do this. Try holding Ctrl
or Alt (or both) whilst pressing each of the arrow keys.

My guess is you're hitting one of these whilst playing your game, causing
the game to minimise and the desktop to rotate.

Ed Metcalfe.

 

[SingaporeWebDesign]

Hello,

You should be able to disable the rotation option in your Display
properties. Nvidia's one is called NVRotate

Look around in
Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > XXX (video card tab)

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