how to tweak my q3a config

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:14 pm

its crazy, when i open my q3a config in wordpad i get only one row to read:

// generated by quake, do not modify

i do not understand why this happens, even back at my macintosh times i got a complete readable config-file when i opened it in word or wherever

does anybody know a solution, please

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:45 pm

You have to do your setup and then run the game. All that info will appear.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:11 am

i did allready, when i open the config file i dont see anything then this mentioned message in one row of text:

// generated by quake, do not modify

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:31 am

There's two configs. One in the Q3a folder and one in the excessive folder.

Make sure they aren't 'Read Only'. To verify this right click on the config
file and then left click on 'properties'. make sure the 'Read Only' option is
not checked. If it is then uncheck it and click apply.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:40 pm

thank you, i understand well

ok, i can modify it as well as its simply empty as well as there is only the mentioned text after // generated by quake, do not modify

thats what scares me ...

can i type the needed or wanted changes below this row ?

maybe i copy the original on a save place and change the copy with all that stuff like hunkmegs, namecolour and all ?

as for example i changed ingame by hitting ^ the fov and it worked ...

ah, btw, in the excessive folder is no config even that i have to choose mod and then excessive in the mod-menue when i wanna play SP ...

i wish my english is good enough for a proper understanding about the issue

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:59 pm

I understand you fine 5oul.

I'm at a loss as why there is nothing in your config file after you ran the
game because it should automatically fill it in

It's been a long time since I looked at a config, anyone else have an idea?

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:05 am

5oul, I'm going to look for my old gaming backups and
find my configs. Maybe I will remember what I did.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:43 am

[MgA]TiMeX wrote:5oul, I'm going to look for my old gaming backups and
find my configs. Maybe I will remember what I did.

ok, thx ... maybe i should download some config somewhere and exchange it with mine and test it ...

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:07 am

I Googled "q3a config generator" and found a couple things that may help
you. The first link is for Quake Live which is vanilla Quake you play free
online. I looked through it and it doesn't look any different.

http://www.holysh1t.net/quake-live-config-generator/

http://www.the-yarn.net/config/config.php

They aren't hard to figure out if you have a basic knowledge of your
config file and it's settings. There's plenty of places out there that will
help if you don't.

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:34 pm

Well 5oul, I don't know what to tell you about your config. I can get Q3 to run on my win7 64bit computer but some of the settings work and
some don't. It seems that the config file doesn't want to update changes that are made. It's odd to me what is happening.

What I did was I copied my old Q3 folder over from a backup. I tried editing different things and nothing seemed to change, or, when
something did change it didn't stick. That got me thinking about your empty config file. I deleted everything after the first line. Went back and
ran the game to re-generate the file. Looked at the file again hoping to see basic settings and there was nothing there, just like you're
experiencing. I did that with both config files, the one in the baseq3 folder and the one in the excessive folder. Still blank. Out of curiosity I
deleted both files from my Q3 directory so that were no q3config files at all. I was surprised to find that the game ran the same way with the
same settings. I thought maybe the file re-generated. I was surprised to find no config files anywhere. That means there has to be a file written
somewhere to even get the game to load, it certainly isn't in any of the folders it's supposed to be in.

This all may be old news to many of you who have played all along through the different operating systems but this is totally new to me. I
haven't played Q3 in a very long time.

There has to be others playing Q3 on Win7 so if some of you current players could help out we would appreciate it.

I've done a ton of reading the last couple days and there doesn't seem to be a cut and dried way of running Q3. Most of what I read in forums is
to keep trying different things until it runs.

Sorry 5oul, I don't know what to tell you to do.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 6:19 pm

i used a new generated config file from the link which you give

i executed as in the description and it said executing q3aconfig

as well as it doesnt ...

you are right i did the same things and nothing changed, maybe i go in the systemfolders to search some config

i will report later if i was able to find smth

anyway, thx for sharing, maybe others know more

Post by **[MgA]ODEN** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:23 pm

I had that problem when I tried to install Quake on a 64bit OS. The only way I could get it to work right was to copy my Quake folder from my old OS and put it on my desktop of my new OS and run it from that folder.

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:44 pm

[MgA]ODEN wrote:I had that problem when I tried to install Quake on a 64bit OS. The only way I could get it to work right was to copy my Quake folder from my old OS and put it on my desktop of my new OS and run it from that folder.

Nice work ODEN. I just found this bit of info at this forum;

http://www.w7forums.com/am-trying-modif ... 11393.html

The part that explains the issue is quoted here;

=========================================

In news:,
Metspitzer wrote:
> Something in Win 7 is preventing Quake 3 to save the configuration
> file and it also won't let me do it manually.
> Any suggestions on how to fix?
>
> Thanks

I haven't ran Quake, but if it is sitting in the Program Files folder,
then yes. As Windows 7 doesn't allow you or the programs to write in
some areas and that is one of them. The way around this problem (if that
is what it is) is to install the program in another folder (i.e. Games,
etc) which Windows 7 doesn't restrict excess to at least with
administrator privileges.

=========================================

I copied my Quake III Arena directory right to the C:\ drive and viola, it
works. I started my game and went into setup then clicked on the
defaults option and lo and behold my empty config file filled up with all
the settings. You'll still have to do any custom config work manually.

Problem solved

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:10 am

insane, that was the last what i was thinking about, thank you

config-changing will happen by being back more expirience on playing, right now i suck, as well as i really missed the fun of the phsyics of the engine

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:57 am

5ouL wrote:right now i suck, as well as i really missed the fun of the phsyics of the engine

Me too. I tried playing with a practice config last night after I got
everything up and running. I don't remember those bots moving so fast.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:36 pm

[MgA]TiMeX wrote:
5ouL wrote:right now i suck, as well as i really missed the fun of the phsyics of the engine
Me too. I tried playing with a practice config last night after I got
everything up and running. I don't remember those bots moving so fast.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:38 pm

handling cod-black ops or mw3 is much more easier then q3a-excessive

i wish id comes back with something like that physic engine and a better grafic

Post by **[MgA]ODEN** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:26 pm

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:31 am

i have really hope for that, the game rune - as for example - created by humanhead (which created http://www.humanhead.com/games-prey2.html ) will create a rune 2, and rune was based on hacking and slashing-melee with axes, warhammers etc. without any shooting, no rpg, single playere and MP in arenas ... and for prey 2 they used a Modified id Tech 4 engine ...

im back on bricks server next weekend, i have a provider-change upon this night, the new contract starts on friday ...

[MgA]TiMeX · Post by **[MgA]TiMeX** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:57 pm

5ouL wrote:im back on bricks server next weekend, i have a provider-change upon this night, the new contract starts on friday ...

Germany is a long way from Bricks server. I hope you get a lot of bandwidth

Post by **[MgA]ODEN** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:56 pm

I'm pinging German servers at 115-130 , I remember doing worse than that to Dallas servers.

5ouL · Post by **5ouL** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:41 am

it will be a bit better then my 120 to 150 ping which it is now

i have now 10000/1000, the new one will be 12000 to 15000/1000, this is because the next backbone is 1 mile away from my flat says the technicians

in a few month i will get highspeed-internet because its technical lame and late europe here as well as it is pronounced that the cable-guys starting in a few weeks in my street to pull the needed glassfibre-cable into the ground

synchron cable-conn is too expensive here ... frickin' polite german !

as for example how things are here since years: before around 7 years i worked in a company with 2mbit synchron (up/download the same) and i have had a 20 to 30 ping in q3a-servers in usa, as well as you cant pay that, its around 200 to 300 euros !!! PER MONTH !!!

they offer also 50mbits wireless-connections for companies and too expensive for a private person

darn business-n*z*s here