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 waiting for me to type stuff. I had a different version of Q3 about two years ago and I recall that it would load only the console and I would have to type a command to start the game. I am assuming that since this is a newer software release, the company distributing it probably changed the way it loads for the sake of simplifying things for less experienced users, etc.
Does anyone know how I can run the console without having the game loaded? I think I can put a command in the Q3 Icon such as "ctl -console" or something (I think I have done it before).
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 icon target?
I can access the command line AFTER the game loads by hitting the ~ button, but thats not the same I dont think..
nevermind, we're talking at different levels of user experience here.
Just type /dedicated 1 in the console after the game has started. You can access the console by hitting the tilde key (it looks like ~)
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 is that box that pops up and it has like a blue background)
xeoxu wrote:Or were you saying type -dedicated 1 in the quake 3 icon target?
And excuse me, I made a mistake, it's +dedicated 1
Still wrong. Where the target says "<path>\quake3.exe" put +set dedicated 1 for a local dedicated server or 2 for an internet server. Don't put the added parameters between the quotes but behind them. 'dedicated' isn't a command but 'set dedicated 1' is the command to set that cvar to 1. The + in front is to use commands as startup parameters.
@thread starter: you haven't even told why you want acces to the blue console instead of just loading Q3...
Yes you can still run Q3 if you make another normal shortcut without that parameter.
The shortcut with that added parameter starts up a dedicated server. If a map is loaded by your server, you can join that server with quake3.exe (just the normal game) by connecting to it in the list of local servers or with /connect <own ip>:27960. I still have no idea what your intentions with the server are...
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.
Where the target says "<path>\quake3.exe" put 