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Article #218Re: Quake2 and squake
From: Graham Daveney
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 00:00
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ZlatkO ThE GoDFatheR (***thomas_zajic@hp.com***) wrote:
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: On 13 May 1998 10:54:13 +1000, Graham Daveney wrote:
:
: > Hi Guys,
: >
: > I can run Quake2 underneath X11 but cannot seem to do so for SVGA.
: > Can anyone point me in the right direction regarding squake for Quake2 ?
: > I downloaded squake, but it was expecting Quake1.
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: ./quake2 +set vid_ref soft
:
: > Also has anyone had the problem where they try and load a saved game and get
: > a segmentation fault ?
:
: Not me, but Q2's savegame system seems to be a collection of
: rather gross hacks, this is especially true for the Linux
: version. The soon-to-be-released v3.15 is supposed to fix
: this for once and all, and is said (or at least was planned)
: to support inter-platform savegame compatibility (ie. 95/NT
: savegames can be loaded from the Linux version & vice versa).
:
: Thomas
Thanks for the tip.
I eventually was able to save and restore a game.
I found that I had to :-
- start Quake2
- start the network server.
- start a game.
- save that game.
Then I was able to load other games that I had previously saved.
Thanks
Graham
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