aze Posted December 11, 2002 Report Share Posted December 11, 2002 Hi all! I have the full version of quake3 for windows. Afaik the only diference between windows and linux version is the executable file. So I heard some time ago (don't remeber were) there is a way to make the demo became full for linux. Do you know how to do this? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 Open up a file manager in superuser mode create a directory where you want your game to go. I use /home/games/quake3 as my home partition has lots of space, the install takes 300+ mb if i recall correctly so you need at least that much free space. Within the qake3 directory create another directory called baseq3 eg /home/games/quake3/baseq3 I will assume that you use the same directory as i suggest from here on ok now you need to insert your quake3 cd, use the filemanager in superuser mode to access the cd, it should be /mnt/cdrom/ copy the file /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 to your /home/games/quake3/baseq3 directory or you could do this in a console window as su by typing: cp /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /home/games/quake3/baseq3/ You then need to download the id point release for linux current version is 1.32b i think about 30mb once downloaded rightclick on the file and in the permissions tab, select exec for user and group. exit the properties dialog as root eg in a console window type su then enter the root password. go to the directory where you downloaded the point release type ./name_of_the_pointrelease_file then press enter (a tip, if you do a "dir" of the directory first you can copy the file name by holding down the left mouse button and dragging over the filename then releasing the mouse button. type ./ at the prompt then press the middle mouse button to paste the file name there) The id setup program will come up you need to change the install path to /home/games/quake3 run the installer. once finished close the installer and type exit in the console to leave su mode. type quake3 to play DOlson has a info on his site for this http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/articlelist.php look under the game listing Happy fragging i hope :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted December 12, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 That worked!! Thank you johnnyv!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted December 12, 2002 Report Share Posted December 12, 2002 glad to help Now you might want to grab the free urban terror mod which is like a counterstrike mod for quake 3. www.urbanterror.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted December 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 johnnyv, I noted that light effects are not good on quake3@linux. There is something could be done to improve this? By the way, at windows mostly cdkey I enter I can play online. But every time I try to play online with the q3 linux version it says invalid cdkey :( I'm also having problems to launch quake3: sometimes (normally when I run other GLX app before q3) it make full screen mode but doesn't start... just a black full screen thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 Not to be snotty, but please search before posting the original question. I feel sorry for johnnyv having to type all that out when I did it last week in Quake3 For windows ON linux? about 5 threads below this one in the same forum (Games) One of us did it for nothing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted December 13, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 sorry. I was excited to play this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted December 13, 2002 Report Share Posted December 13, 2002 Oh I know ;) I wrote in that post "here it is despite it being all over the web" because I love to get people started. It runs a little faster than 1.5x in linux for me! No sweat - it's just that YOU would have played sooner than waiting for him to type it again!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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