Quake 1 Mission Pack 1 doesn't start

[QuakeDors]

Hi

I have a problem with Quake 1 scourge of armagon. It won't start. I click on the icon and then a DOS prompt screen comes up and then shuts down. That is all that happens every time. Quake 1 works fine, can somebody help me get scourge of armagon working on my PC. I have Windows XP O/S 2GB of RAM, Nvidia Geforce 7200LE and an Intel Core 2 duo CPU (1.8Ghz).

[Baker]

Run Quake via command line adding -hipnotic -game hipnotic to command line. Should make it work if it is otherwise installed.

Example: c:\my_quake_folder\fitzquake085.exe -hipnotic -game hipnotic

[Spirit]

No need for the -game parameter. Just -hipnotic is enough.

[QuakeDors]

It still doesn't work.

I type e:\Quake\"QLAUNCH.exe" -hipnotic then the quake screen appears then disappears. Any advice.

[Pyros]

Have you tried running it with any other executable?

[QuakeDors]

What other executable do you mean? You mean like WINQUAKE.exe or GLQUAKE.exe?

[Spirit]

qlaunch is something different. I'd recommend winquake.exe.

[QuakeDors]

I tried using 'E:\Quake\WINQUAKE.exe -game hipnotic' and it says you must have the registered version to use modified games. I got the game from a bit torrent file. Is that why it says that?

Anyway I tried 'E:\Quake\GLQUAKE.exe -game hipnotic' and it says the app has failed to start because glide2x.dll was not found. Reinstalling the app may fix the problem.

Anyway I opened the armagon.bat file and the command in the file said: 'E:\Quake\Quake.exe -game hipnotic -hipnotic. So I tried putting that in the command line interface and it came up with this:

Quake v1.07
Locked 1 Mb image
Locked 11 Mb data
malloc' d: 11804672
Exiting due to signal SIGSEGU
General Protection Fault at eip = 0004690b
eax=fd3b046c ebx=00127220 ecx=0004ffff edx=fd3b0000 esi=00000054 edi=000e3264
ebp=0012325c esp=001231b8 cs=01a7 ds=01af es=01af fs=01cf gs=01cf ss=01af
Call frame traceback EIPS:
0x0004690b

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[Skutarth]

See that link on the Site Navigation pane that says "Buy Quake"? Try clicking that.
QuakeOne - Buy Quake 1

[MH]

Also delete the opengl32.dll from your Quake directory (depending on the version of it you have this may be a hidden file, so you may need to turn on "show hidden files and folders" in Tools | Folder Options). That just exists for old 3dfx cards.

[JPL]

And last but not least '-game hipnotic' must be changed into '-hipnotic' as mentionned by Spirit earlier...

[QuakeDors]

Ok I changed -game hipnotic to just -hipnotic when I use WINQUAKE and GLQUAKE and I got a different error this time:

W_LoadWadFile: couldn't load gfx.wad

I also deleted opengl32.dll from quake directory.

[JPL]

hhmmmmm, sounds weird.

Are you able to open .pak file ? If yes, please have a look into hipnotic folder and look for .pak file, open it and look for a ./env/gfx.wad folder... If it is missing there, it explains it all: the pak file is incomplete.

[MH]

gfx.wad should be in the root of the PAK, not in env, and even if it fails to load from a mod it should load from ID1 instead, so you've got something set up wrong.

Can you confirm that you have the following:

E:\Quake
E:\Quake\WinQuake.exe
E:\Quake\GLQuake.exe
E:\Quake\ID1\pak0.pak
E:\Quake\ID1\pak1.pak
E:\Quake\hipnotic\pak0.pak

Delete any quake.exe you might have - that's a DOS application and won't work on XP.

The handiest way to run it is to use WinQuake - that will work on XP and you won't get any potential weirdness from graphics card incompatibilities. If you want a 3D accelerated version we can come to that later on, but for now let's just get the basics working OK.

Start.
Run.
E:\Quake\WinQuake.exe -hipnotic

Exactly as typed.

[QuakeDors]

OK

I have got E:\Quake
I have got E:\Quake\WINQUAKE.exe
I have got E:\Quake\GLQUAKE.exe
I have got E:\Quake\IDI\PAK0.pak
I have got E:\Quake\IDI\PAK1.pak
I have got E:\Quake\hipnotic\Pak0.pak

As for deleting quake.exe because it is a batch file I can do that but I have more batch files in the directory, should I delete them too? Like Q95.bat and WQ.bat. And then there are the ones in hipnotic directory = armagon.bat, listen.bat and dedicate.bat. The thing is there is MSDOS batch files and then there are MSDOS applications. Should I delete both types?

I could open the Pak0.pak file in hipnotic by going to the properties and making it open with notepad. All I saw was like commands for like binding the controls and mouse and sound and various other settings. Then there was a bunch of lines of random symbols and then MAP and CGI settings and locations.