Need help with retail RTCW

[Tequila]

Well this isn't working out as well as the demo :( The demo runs beautifully but when I startup the retail version the startup screen is fubar. It looks so crappy almost like it's using software emulation and the text is unreadable so I can't even navigate the menus to change to a higher resolution.

I followed the instructions carefully: downloaded and ran the 1.33.run installer and copied my pk3 files from the windoze partition to /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/main

I even tried copying over my cfg file from the wolfdemo to my retail cfg but that didn't help either. I tried this using a 16 and 24bit desktop.

I'm completely stumped here :( Included is an attachment of the output of running wolf if you have lots of time on your hands to help debug this for me :)

Thanks,

[Tequila]

Ooops here's the attachment.

[z0mbix]

What graphics card do you have and what drivers?

[Tequila]

A GF3 with the latest Nvidia drivers. That can't be the issue, I run opengl games just fine. Counter-Strike under winex, native UT2003, etc.

In fact I just tried RTCW under winex and it ran however I it takes too much of a hit with 4x AA and16 tap AF compared to the native demo I was running :(

Oh well, guess I can live with it under Winex if I can't figure out why it looks like crap running natively.

[TheGimp]

I can see from the attachment that you don't have all of the pk3 files installed :p
pak0.pk3 is missing, and that contains the menu graphics
I'm surprised the the game even started without pak0.pk3 :eek:

[Tequila]

I've got pak0.pk3 and it's readable. My files in /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/main:


-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 702640 Oct 27 22:33 cgamei386.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 672332 Oct 27 22:33 cgame.mp.i386.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 750218 Oct 27 22:33 mp_bin.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63211149 Oct 27 18:48 mp_pak0.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4449596 Oct 27 18:48 mp_pak1.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118 Oct 27 18:48 mp_pak2.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 159762 Oct 27 22:33 mp_pak3.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7799 Oct 27 22:33 mp_pak4.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3485134 Oct 27 22:33 mp_pakmaps0.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3765933 Oct 27 22:33 mp_pakmaps1.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24171802 Oct 27 22:33 mp_pakmaps4.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 315823656 Oct 27 18:55 pak0.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 937684 Oct 27 22:33 qagamei386.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 863920 Oct 27 22:33 qagame.mp.i386.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9559 Oct 27 22:33 rotate.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 21:19 scripts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 293887431 Oct 27 19:00 sp_pak1.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11026123 Oct 27 19:01 sp_pak2.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152544 Oct 27 22:33 sp_pak3.pk3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292396 Oct 27 22:33 uii386.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 301836 Oct 27 22:33 ui.mp.i386.so

[TheGimp]

according to the attachment, it's not reading pak0.pk3

[Tequila]

Woot, it works now! It turns out somehow my pak0.pk3 was corrupted. I was sitting there all depressed when I recopied that file over just for the hell of it. I fired it up and voila!

This is much better than running under winex. For some reason though I'm not getting a list of servers under multiplayer but that should be easy to figure out I hope.

Thanks for the help, especially TheGimp. When you said it wasn't reading pak0.pk3 and I saw the file it should have dawned on me a lot sooner to just recopy it over. I'm kind of worried though on how it got corrupted in the first place. I hope this isn't going to occur again.

[TheGimp]

:)

are you still using the demo cfg?