Re: Quake3 question

[dsavage@peaknet.net]

On Thursday, October 24, 2002 Steve Prichard wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:40:35PM +0000, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
> > Problem is, Q3 refuses to start. The Quake 3 Console says it can't load the
> > 'default.cfg' file. No surprise there ... there's no such file on my system.
> 
> It should work just fine without the config file.
> 
> I can think of two things to try:
> 
>     1) Install the latest point release and see if it just magically
>        works then.
> 
>        ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/win32/q3pointrelease_132.exe
> 
>        The linux version is here, btw:
> 
>        ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3apoint-1.32.x86.run
> 
>        According to www.idsoftware.com, that was released just a
>        couple of weeks ago.
> 
>     2) Touch the file.

Steve,

Tried both. Still get this:

$ cat quake-error-log.txt
Q3 1.32 win-x86 Oct  7 2002
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak8.pk3 (9 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak7.pk3 (4 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak6.pk3 (64 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak5.pk3 (7 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak4.pk3 (272 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak3.pk3 (4 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak2.pk3 (148 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena\baseq3\pak1.pk3 (26 files)
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena/baseq3

----------------------
534 files in pk3 files

Running in restricted demo mode.

----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena/demota    <--- what's this ????

----------------------
534 files in pk3 files
----- CL_Shutdown -----
-----------------------
Couldn't load default.cfg

I've put a zero-length default.cfg file in C:\Program Files\Quake III Arena and
also in its baseq3 subdirectory.

--Doc

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