Darkplaces with SOA

[savhaar]

Hey guys, I'm new to the forums, but I did a forum search to find a solution to my problem, but they didn't work for me. So, I just bought the first mission pack from Steam and I cannot get it to run with Darkplaces. I can run the original Quake with Darkplaces without any problems. I tried adding " -hipnotic" to the end of the target line like I read in one one of the other threads, but it still isn't working. Any suggestions?

[Lardarse]

First of all, I'm assuming that you've copied the pak files out of your Steam folder, and into another folder, where you use DarkPlaces.

In this folder, you should have a folder called id1 and a folder called hipnotic. In the id1 folder should be the main pak0.pak and pak1.pak; in the hipnotic folder should be that pak0.pak; outside of those folders should be the DarkPlaces executable (probably darkplaces.exe) and any of the .dll files that you need (technically, it will run without any of them, apart from the SDL version of the engine needing SDL.dll; it will check for them when it loads and disable features that aren't available).

Once this is done, open a command window, navigate to this folder, and type:
darkplaces -hipnotic (note that there is no space between the - and hipnotic)

That should then load it. If that still doesn't work, then report back here.

(If on the other hand, that does work, you may find that it's running in 640x480, due to a bug in DarkPlaces where it doesn't sucessfully inherit settings from id1/config.cfg; the workaround is to copy config.cfg into the hipnotic folder.)

[savhaar]

It Works!

Thank you very much. I got it working after following your instructions.