no specific intentions.. i just wanted to play a friend of mine and he was telling me to just run the console and i could not. we were trying to figure out how to run it without the game starting, but we never got it.

we just wanted to play eachother 2v2 online.

so when I add +set dedicated 1 to the target, will I still be able to play Q3 on my system?

haha thanks dude! I knew it was something like that. Ill try this when I get home.


+dedicated 1

Dude, Im not stupid. And I already mentioned that I know how to access the console. I dont think you understand my problem... You know when you run the game? Well, the command console is supposed to start up for me to run the game; it does not do that. It starts the game automatically. (The console ...

i replied too. you have more to help me with.

No, I cant even type anything in the command line because the game loads right away. Its like this: Click icon, console pops up and then half a second later the game is loaded with the company logo video of a metal wall being pounded or whatever. Or were you saying type -dedicated 1 in the quake 3 i...

The console pops up for a second and the game automatically loads.

There is a better description here: http://quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19787

Hey Quakers! I recently purchased Q3 Gold edition from Wal-Mart, which comes with Q3 Arena and Q3 Team Arena. I installed it on my PC - (pc not mac). My problem is this: upon executing quake3.exe, the console appears and then immediately loads the game, instead of loading only the console and then w...