HELP...! PLEASE!!!! INVOLVES ONLINE PLAY

[ecore]

i had played this game a while back when i was younger, and now everytime i try to play an online game it says "no response from the master server" and it only worked last night when i was trying to play, so i joined XFIRE, and when i try to join a server this is what it says...

Couldn't load default.cfg

help me..whats going on!?!

[ecore]

anyone...come on its gotten 5 views...no responses...could it have anything to do with that i didnt restart my computer before playing like it said i should have?

[4days]

have you deleted any files from your q3 install? have a look in 'Q:\Quake3' (or wherever quake 3 lives on your machine) and see if there's a 'baseq3' folder.

default.cfg is inside an archive called pak0.pk3 which should be in that 'baseq3' folder. if it isn't then you need to reinstall the game.

a quick fix would be to just reinstall the game. when you've done that, get the latest patch from here:

http://quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9294
(should be 1.32c?)

and take a look here:
http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13903

edit: restart your machine, have you only just installed it?

[ecore]

thankyou verymuch, i am very computer savy, but not that much, act like your talking to an idiot here...if you could simplify that at all i would apreciate it, and no i installed it yesterday around 2 EST. i just havent turned off my computer since than....

[4days]

didn't read your first post carefully enough - i don't use xfire, but it could be that it needs to know where quake 3 is installed - if quake3 tries to run from the wrong folder, you'll see that "Couldn't load default.cfg" error message.

try this:

restart your machine.

start up quake3, and try to browse for a game. if you get that "no response from the master server" message, look in the help thread i posted a link to (it covers things like connection/firewall problems).

check the settings for quake3 in xfire.

[ecore]

thanks alot man!