Re: Moving Q3 between PCs

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From: Erik Max Francis
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:54

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Old Wolf wrote:

> I had Q3 installed on my PC. Then I got a new PC. My CD is
> scratched and won't read any more. I tried copying over all of
> the data files from the old PC. It works file for single player.
> 
> I then downloaded the latest point release and tried to play on
> the Internet. However, the server connect fails saying I don't
> have the right server protocol. For some reason, Q3 seems to
> be telling the server that I don't have the point release installed,
> even though I do.

The protocol error means you still don't have the proper point release, 
so you're doing something else wrong.  I've gone through several 
iterations of moving Quake III Arena to new machines and have had no 
such problems.

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