Multiple Clients?

[TehChozenTwo]

Hi, I was wondering if you can have multiple clients on the same install of quake.

[Bank]

Sure, all you really need is your Pak files.

[Canadian*Sniper]

by all means, clutter up your quake folder with every client available They shouldn't effect eachother unless they use a different file with the same name.

[TehChozenTwo]

Alright, thanks.

[Lardarse]

I gotta disagee here. I've found that clients don't like to be together...

[foq]

I'd keep it clean just for the sake of clenliness, heh.
Multiple clients kinda ruin that... :\

[Canadian*Sniper]

I gotta disagee here. I've found that clients don't like to be together...

It could get cluttered, yes. Maybe you could go more indepth. I've had a total of 11 engines in the same quake folder and they each worked fine. Some just messed with the config.cfg file

• glpro
• glquake
• winquake
• winpro
• joequake
• qrack
• darkplaces
• tenebrae
• fitzQuake
• vengeance
• my custom glquake

[Lardarse]

Some just messed with the config.cfg file

That's EXACTLY why I keep all of mine seperate...

[kbdrate]

It could get cluttered, yes.

... but you use Linux right? I have symlinks setup to make them all independent while sharing the pak files.

/opt/games/quake1/id1 is where my pak files are.

/opt/games/quake1/{darkplaces,ezquake,etc} are where my clients are.

For example, in /opt/games/quake1/darkplaces I have a symlink to ../id1. Currently, I have the enhanced textures in the main shared directory so all clients use it.

/opt/games/quake1/darkplaces/
darkplaces-dedicated
darkplaces-glx
darkplaces-sdl
id1 -> ../id1

/opt/games/quake1/ezquake/
ezquake-dedicated
ezquake-glx
ezquake-sdl
id1 -> ../id1

And then my home directory stores my config, screenshots, and demos per engine.

~/.darkplaces/id1/
config.cfg
s0.sav
screenshots/

I assume ezquake also respects the Unix style and puts configs in home directory per engine. I've been having too much fun with Darkplaces to even try ezquake.

[Canadian*Sniper]

awesome tip and I appreciate it Let me bring you up to speed.

I use Windows primarily on my Desktop computer which is where I play quake mostly. I have Ubuntu/Windows installed on my laptop. On my linux partition, I have sqpro (havn't touched it in a while, wasn't working well with mouse, etc) and darkplaces which runs fairly well (when there's no action) when my laptop doesn't even have a graphics card

[noabody]

For Windows XP my solution was simply to put as much on the command line of the windows shortcut as possible.

telejano.exe -width 800 -bpp 32 -mem 32 +brightness 0.8 -rogue +exec qcfg.cfg
darkplaces.exe -width 800 -bpp 32 -mem 32 +v_gamma 1.2 -rogue +exec qcfg.cfg
joequake.exe -width 800 -bpp 32 -mem 32 +gamma .3 -rogue +exec qcfg.cfg

I like the fact that all three engines use a different way to set the screen brightness. I found it's best to set the video options on the command line since each engine tends to muck up the options set by the other. Finally I sub in my own keybindings with +exec qcfg.cfg. At least all of the engines recognize the bindings correctly.

[scar3crow]

My answer is to tediously battle with the config changes everytime I use something different =D

Engine list ? Hrmm...

Darkplaces
FitzQuake
GLPro
normalPro
TomazQuake
telejano
turtleQuake
FrikQuake (I think I still have this one installed)
panQuake
JoeQuake
FTEGL
Tenebrae
winQuake of course
glquake of course
vquake
NPRQuake

Cant recall the rest off the top of my head (not at home right now).

[Spirit]

Engine list?
http://www.quakesrc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4551
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