Quake III installer?

[Tjoh311]

I was wondering if anyone knew of an installer for a Windows Quake III Arena disk. I know about UT's linux installer but I havent been able to get any info on quake. If someone knows of a file or a download that would help me do this (if there even is one) the knowledge would help out.

P.S. If anyone lives in the portland area and knows of any good stores to get linux games at I could use the Info for that too.;)

[bwkaz]

I thought there was an installer on Id's FTP site (that'd be ftp.idsoftware.com), but I can't seem to find it now... :(

One good place to buy Linux games is www.tuxgames.com

[evulish]

Uhh...I don't really understand what you want. The way I got Q3 installed was I installed the point release then copied my pk3 files to the baseq3 directory.

[Tjoh311]

Now I've seen the point releases for Quake 3 Arena, but I didn't see anything that said that the installers for a Windows CD onto a Linux Box. Does This install like the UT Linux installer?

Thanks:) :) :)

[Hitokiri_X]

The quake 3 installer is the point release,it should work the same as the UT installer except you have to manually copy over the quake3 basepk3? folder from the cd to your installed quake3 directory.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by Hitokiri_X
The quake 3 installer is the point release,it should work the same as the UT installer except you have to manually copy over the quake3 basepk3? folder from the cd to your installed quake3 directory.
Yes
I have the Linux version and wanted to try loading it on a Windows machine. That exactly what I did. Run the point release and copy the files from baseq3 to the now installed directory on your hard drive.

This worked in Windows with the Linux CD, so it should work the same the other way around.

[mocnicom]

How do you run the point release? It is a .run file. My best guess would be ./filename.run, but I don't want to accidentally compile it or anything strange.

[mocnicom]

Figured it out, it runs after I chmod it.

[Seph64]

Originally posted by mahdi
Yes
I have the Linux version and wanted to try loading it on a Windows machine. That exactly what I did. Run the point release and copy the files from baseq3 to the now installed directory on your hard drive.

This worked in Windows with the Linux CD, so it should work the same the other way around.

Yes, here;s what I do.

Download the PR, install it. (it'll create a baseq3 folder automatically)

Copy pak0.pk3 from the CD to the baseq3 folder, and boom Q3 is installed.

[raz0rblade]

where do i get this linux point release ?

[dreg]

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/60000/61609.shtml

Linux 1.32 Q3A point release, chmod +x to make it executable and copy the pak0.pk3(sp?) from the disk when you're done :)

- dreg

[raz0rblade]

is there anywhere else where i dont have to signup for something to download it ? i havent got my email up yet on this machine.

edit: i signed up only to find there is a 2 hour wait to download it :eek:

[dreg]

oh yea, forgot about that.. try id's link:

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3apoint-1.32.x86.run

- dreg

[raz0rblade]

slow (7.10kbps/1500mbps connection), but at least im getting it :) thnx

[raz0rblade]

ok i got it, installed, copied pak0.pk3, typed quake3 into the shell, it printed out the usaul q3 engine starting stuff then gave me something about MESA drivers, then said to add a line after quake3 to get it to work. I did that and it started, but the intro was around 2fps and game play was sub fps :( everything was disorted. so i figured i would try enabling hardware accel, so i went to the rh gfx cp and the hardware accel box is grayed out. how do I get hardware accelration working ? I have a PNY Geforce 2 MX200. It played good when I had windows along with ut. What drivers do I have to get to get this thing working ?

[Seph64]

Originally posted by raz0rblade
ok i got it, installed, copied pak0.pk3, typed quake3 into the shell, it printed out the usaul q3 engine starting stuff then gave me something about MESA drivers, then said to add a line after quake3 to get it to work. I did that and it started, but the intro was around 2fps and game play was sub fps :( everything was disorted. so i figured i would try enabling hardware accel, so i went to the rh gfx cp and the hardware accel box is grayed out. how do I get hardware accelration working ? I have a PNY Geforce 2 MX200. It played good when I had windows along with ut. What drivers do I have to get to get this thing working ?

Go to Nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com/) and download the NVidia Linux drivers. I suggest getting the Tarballs (.tar.gz).

Once you downloaded that, go in root, under the terminal. Extract the tar balls by typing tar xvzf file.tar.gz

Now compile the kernel driver by changing directory to NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123 directory type make install.

Do the same for the GLX Driver.

Now you vi /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 scroll down til you see driver="nv" replace nv with nvidia.

Now goto the load modules section (scroll up) type in Load "glx" (if it isn't there already) and be sure to remove Load "dri" and Load "glcore" if they are in your XF86Config-4 file that is.

FYI to enter and remove text in vi, you press the insert key. To save and quit, after you entered your text, press esc and type :wq

[bwkaz]

Before you are able to compile the NVIDIA_kernel driver, though, you will need to install and configure your distro's kernel-source package.

[raz0rblade]

I got the nvidia rpm for glx and the srpm for the drivers, installed according to a guide on their forums, i shut down my computer for the nite and went to bed, started up my puter after school today and found X no longer loaded :D I went into /etc/X11/XF86Config changed nv to nvidia, saved, and rebooted (only because i wanted to see gdm load :D) X started a 'lil slower than usual and then showed a nice lil nVidia splash and my familiar GDM login screen with the flower :D. Logged in, ran quake 3 and everything worked fine, i get around 80fps (guessing, i only know how to get the fps rate in ut), and nice fast play :)