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Bam ....

Your Quake folder ...



Should have joequake.exe and joequakegl.exe in there, plus dzip.exe

Your Quake/JoeQuake folder ...



Should have your config.cfg that you manually copy into there from quake\id1 and ---maybe --- the pak0.pak that came with JoeQuake.

I can run JoeQuake-gl fine without the pak0.pak in the JoeQuake folder, I'm not sure what is in there, probably HUD elements (on screen health indicator, shells remaining images, etc.)

Joe can probably tell us what is in pak0.pak

Bam, let me know if you get this to work.

Baker's right. If you place the files as he stated, you _MUST_ get it working! Is this problem only happen to joequake or with other quake.exe's as well?
My pak only contains minor things, for example particle images, but it can be played without it too, so that shouldn't be a problem either.

Joe, your download installs correctly.

Bam may have either decompressed JoeQuake in the wrong folder or turned off "Extract to folder names" on his unzip prog and got the files all in one folder.

Bam, have you solved the problem yet?

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Yep got it working, I did what you said and put a shortcut on my destop and put the -game joequake, command in there. Except, when I go to the console and I type something in, it doesn't show any characters and after I type in two characters it crashes.

Bam

Don't do "game -joequake"

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http://www.GameStatus.Net stats, http://www.GameAholic.Net Q1 servers

Hey Joe, there have been, I believe, three reports of crashes similar to that which Bam described when someone types 2 characters in the console.



Then Pyro said he fixed it ...



Bam, could you try what Pyro did and see if it helps? Strange problem but 3 people have reported it to me.

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quake.ihoc.net, Rockets/jet/7 runes
quake.singed.net, RQ on E1M7
http://www.GameStatus.Net stats, http://www.GameAholic.Net Q1 servers

there has to be some connection to why that is happening? Mine crashed after two weeks of using it.. grrrrrrr..

But.. I didn't have any of the problem that are mentioned.. Console came down fine when I hit the ESC key.. I quickly found I had to move my Config,Auto EXEC, and alias file to the JoeQuake folder. Well I copied it there.

The crashing after two weeks stumped me.. I d/led the update though and was able to use it last night

Yeah, I know about this and here's why it happens:
there's a file called "cmdhist.dat", which JoeQuake saves every time you quit the game. That file is for command history, it stores the last 64 lines of recent commands you used in Quake console. At start JoeQuake loads these lines into memory and therefore you can use your previously used commands after restarting. Quite handy.
But, if the game crashes or stops in an unproper way, it might happen that this "cmdhist.dat" file won't get closed properly. Then this above mentioned problem happens. I'm gonna try to avoid this in the future version of the engine. Until then, if the problem pops up again, just delete cmdhist.dat then restart the game and it works fine. Trust me.

LOL! wierd way to fix it, by typing "a" in and pressing enter. Jozsef did you say to do that for that character bug or what Pita said?

Bam

Both of 'em. If you delete the file or if you press an enter, or you press something then an enter, then it'll be accepted as first command and wont get freezed, but if you type two or more characters it freezes
Sorry, stupid bug I know, gonna try to workaround it.