Hello. Don't worry, I"m the exact same way as you, just started playing 'seriously' recently. I made a handy little post on my website on how to 'proprly' set up Quake 3. ( click here ) Towards the bottom of that post, you will find a couple of things that will help you troubleshoot and fix not...

^misantropia^ wrote:*whispers* 27960

*slowly presses the edit button and changes it, hoping nobody will notice*

I have created on my websiite the instructions for creating the perfect Quake 3 Installation, for the express purpose of getting friends who have never played before up to speed.

http://alexmax.unidoom.org/?p=16

Hope this helps.

Also, if you are behind a router, make sure that the one hosting the server has his ports correctly configured. I beleive Quake 3 uses Port 27960. If you have no idea how to forward ports on your router, check this link out: http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm Look...

I had a very similar problem a while ago, turns out that it was the mouse I was using that was causing the problem. Apparently, certain hardware inside mice are slightly buggy and have a tendancy to wig out in either direction randomly. The best way to get control back is to very slightly lift the m...

This problem occours with baseq3. I even tried recreating my config from scrath last night (I dont put things into my config file unless I know what the commands do and can see tangable effects, I don't use other people's configs). Once team models work in baseq3, I'll be fine, as setting up forced ...

Hi, I'm kind of new to Q3A, and I've been playing for about a week or so, trying to get a godly railgun aim like everyone else. :P Anyway, I've been doing a great deal of work on my configuration file, and I'm running into a little snag reguarding forcemodel and team games. Forcemodel and model in F...