Strange crash with QuakeDC

Skatal1ty · Post by **Skatal1ty** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:30 pm

So I've burned multiple nonselfboot aswell as selfboot cds, and they all have one thing in common, they crash when the console attempts to render a 3d environment. At first I thought it might've just been the demos, so I altered pak0.pak and deleted all the .dem files from it. burn a new disc, pop it in, everything works, configure it, then I select new game. Crashed. So I tried a selfboot cd, no improvement. I'm not trying a mod or anything, just straight up Full vanilla Quake. Should I try a shareware?

It'll have to wait though, I have a mountain of coasters from other tests, no cd-rs left. (just got a DC)

Thanks for the help!

emptythought · Post by **emptythought** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:09 am

You shouldn't have to even touch any PAKs as they should be fine unmodified. You might wanna download the shareware version and try seeing if QuakeDC boots it. You may or may not know but there is a legal port of Quake by Fragger who actually has it ported over fairly nicely aside from 3D rendering (QuakeDC does this). The link above actually has the download to nxMakaqu (Fraggers port).

Post by **Tyne** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:53 pm

Yeah use nxMakaqu, it's not as pretty but it's a way better port overall and has some kick ass features to boot.

Skatal1ty · Post by **Skatal1ty** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:18 pm

I burnt a selfboot cd containing this distro:http://www.dchomebrew.org/quaketitan.shtml and the shareware pak files. Runs flawless. So I added pak1.pak from the retail version, and it'll run and play, except for when I attempt to play episodes 2-4, it'll just crash. Not sure why... I used the pinoy files by the way to make the selfbootcd.

Would the writespeed affect it at all?

emptythought · Post by **emptythought** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:27 am

I bet the problem is from not replacing pak0.pak.

Skatal1ty · Post by **Skatal1ty** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:15 pm

fackue wrote:I bet the problem is from not replacing pak0.pak.

I tried that and burned a new disc, and it just crashed when it tried to load a demo... so it might be my .pak files.

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:18 pm

Skatal1ty wrote:it might be my .pak files.

Yes, it is.

Skatal1ty · Post by **Skatal1ty** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:04 am

Fragger wrote:
Skatal1ty wrote:it might be my .pak files.
Yes, it is.

well, what could be wrong with my pak1.pak? why won't it load the maps that it contains?

emptythought · Post by **emptythought** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:57 am

It sounds like they're corrupt. I assume they're from a downloaded copy? If so, you probably wanna buy the game so you can guarantee that your PAKs are not corrupted.

Skatal1ty · Post by **Skatal1ty** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:43 pm

fackue wrote:It sounds like they're corrupt. I assume they're from a downloaded copy? If so, you probably wanna buy the game so you can guarantee that your PAKs are not corrupted.

the game runs fine on my pc though.. I'll try reinstalling from myretail cd then.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:25 pm

well, gibaholic did admit to downloading quake before (in particular eQuake which puts a lot of butchered files and cheat hacks in it)