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Re: Quake2 and squake

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From: Graham Daveney
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 00:00
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ZlatkO ThE GoDFatheR (***thomas_zajic@hp.com***) wrote:
: [ e-mail CC'ed ]
: 
: 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.
: 
: ./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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From: graham@daveney.matra.com.au (Graham Daveney)
Subject: Re: Quake2 and squake
Date: 1998/05/17
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