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Re: team fortress quake 1

#74425
From: jacob
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:40
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THanks a milleion times for all the great help! the vidio card is a S3 
Graphics Inc. SavageIX. And yes what i ment was opgengl... sorry *S*

well i will try the shortcut thing this weekend, hopefully i can make it 
work, but im an idiot when it comes to programming ...

Thanks...

Jacob

Shaggy wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Dec 2002 17:30:30 +0100, jacob <jani...@student.cbs.dk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well I firstly installed GLquake - then realised i dont have GL c",) - 
>>after this i installed WinQuake 1,9. This made quake run fine and i 
>>played it online and all (once only unfortunally *S*). then i downloaded 
>>TF. In the installation it searces for the quake directory and found it 
>>alright, i choose yes and it installed into c:\quake\fortress ... see i 
>>don't know how it all works, so i just run the WinQuake.exe and expect 
>>to get everything (which abviosly is too optimistic *S*) I havnt 
>>downloaded any maps for fortress, and dont know which ones to get!?
>>
>>Well i hope you can help me, and i hope ill find some people to play with.
>>
> 
> 
> to run TF with winquake you need to create a shortcut that tells quake to load
> your TF directory 
> 
> btw i'm kind of guessing here as i don't actually play it. but these instuctions
> are how you tell quake to load an ad on  game directory.
> 
> winquake -game fortress -zone 1024 
> 
> use gamespy or somthing simalar to find TF games
> 
> I'd recomend you also install quakeworld, quakeworld is the internet inhansed
> version of quake net play is much smoother and game directory is controlled by
> the server you don't have to load anyt game directories by command line
> switches.
> 
> sorry i can't realy help with what maps you need I'd imagine the basic ones
> would be included with the TF package. qw will download missing maps
> automaticaly if it's enabled by the admin on the qw server. 
> usually it works fine but it depends on the speed of your connection or how late
> you've joined a game as the sever can change levels part way thu your download.
> and you can't do anything (quake wize) while it's downloading .
> generaly i'd recomend downloading and installing any needed maps before playing
> if posible .
> 
> what video card do you have dosn't it support opengl
> what's  GL c",) ?
> 
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