Re: Moving Q3 between PCs

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From: Zenmasta
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:54

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a copy/paste is all it normally requires

make sure you are installing the point release to the right 
directory...you shouldn't have had to reinstall anything anyway

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.
> 
> Is there some registry setting or other procedure that I need to
> follow, when copying an installation from one PC to another?
>

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