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Jester



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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:19 am    Post subject: It's been way too long... Reply with quote

I used to be active here many years ago, but then life got in the way and I had no time for Quake... or any other games for that matter. After reading through all the recent posts, I can't believe how many names I recognize from way back when!

Anyway, I'd love to play again, but I can't get Quake to run on my current computer! What do I need to do to run Quake (preferably with Dark Places) in Windows Vista?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

*attempts to summon LordHavoc*

I don't have any advice myself, not tried any gaming on Vista at all.
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Jester



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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't even install it, let alone play it - the setup program says it will not run in "Windows NT". I used to just copy the whole Quake folder from a CD I made, but I recently moved and now the only copy I can find is the original. *IF* I can get it installed or copied from another CD, will Dark Places run without any other hassle?
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are we talking getting Quake just onto the machine? You should just be able to copy basically the pak files over, and maintain the structure of quake\id1 and store them there, and then locate a binary such as DarkPlaces, granted its been a while since I've even seen the structure of the original CD...

AFAIK DP works in Vista, though some people have had some trouble with it, but they don't seem to be the norm.

Have you tried running the installer in one of those wonky computability modes? Should be within the Properties of the installer binary.
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Jester



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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, there are no .pak files - I have to run setup.exe to "unpack" everything. I had another CD which I copied everything to (unpacked, straight off my HD) but I can't fin it at the moment Sad
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah okay.

Try the compatibility modes? I recall seeing such the last time I was poking around on a Vista machine...

Sorry, I'm not of much more help.
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey... something happened!

I ran "Install.bat" off the CD and now have the unpacked Quake directory installed. Dark Places is still not working though - I copied the Quake directory (complete with id1 directory and .pak files) into my Dark Places folder. I run darkplaces.exe and (after clicking "run" when Vista's gay "open file - security warning" window pops up) nothing happens... any thoughts?
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jester wrote:
Hey... something happened!

I ran "Install.bat" off the CD and now have the unpacked Quake directory installed. Dark Places is still not working though - I copied the Quake directory (complete with id1 directory and .pak files) into my Dark Places folder. I run darkplaces.exe and (after clicking "run" when Vista's gay "open file - security warning" window pops up) nothing happens... any thoughts?


There are detailed instructions for installing Quake in the darkplaces readme (both included and on the website), from all flavors of Quake CD.

If you copied from CD, the files might be write protected, just something to check.

As the DarkPlaces readme says, you just need to make a directory, make an id1 directory inside it, and put the two paks in there, and extract the darkplacesengine zip to the directory, so you end up with:
Code:

quake\id1\pak0.pak
quake\id1\pak1.pak
quake\darkplaces.exe  (and assorted dll files)


Make sure there is no quake\opengl32.dll (as you might get from a WinQuake CD - but yours is clearly not one of those).

You may want to try one of the beta versions instead of the current stable version, as I've heard of some issues with the current stable version.

Betas are found by clicking the Beta files link on the download page, scroll down to darkplacesengine20080425beta1 or similar (can use darkplacesenginewindowsonly20080425beta1 to save a bit of download time).
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Jester



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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had read the readme, but read it wrong...

I had made a \quake\id1 directory in the dark places folder, now I've just got \id1

Thanks, it's running now! Laughing
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