ProQuake: Moving diagonally?

[Nessonic]

This is the only client I have this problem, and it's not just the Quake clients, as WinQuake works fine (I'm referring to QuakeWorld clients, those are fine in this problem).

Say I push up and left at the same time, I move diagonal. But if I am moving forward and push left/right, I only move a very small amount to either direction, not fully diagonally. This kills any hope of trying to strafe in battle, or looking in the direction of an upcoming corner. Particularly ruins my hope of rocket jumping in dm3. I hope I don't have to resort to using WinQuake (if that's even a client allowed in the servers anymore). Is there any fix to this? I can't find any clues in the config and no other clients have this problem.

I use 3.5, though I've tried 3.99 and it's the same deal.

[rev]

try upping your cl_sidespeed to 999 and putting your cl_forwardspeed at 400, you'll see a difference in strafing. While the maximum direction speed is determined by the server, it does make a difference in what directional movement takes priority somehow. not sure.

[Nessonic]

I'll have to mess around with those settings you gave me (those made it feel like I was running near sideways not diagonally) but it helped a lot! Thanks!

[lxndr]

Strafing adds a lot to the gameplay, but is totally unrealistic, you simply dont strafe in real life, or quite slowly. So what would be the best solution, to give the choice to the player, or to pick something in the middle ? As an engine coder, I chose the second option, but I'm still wondering.

[rev]

yeah that was just a starting point, the closer you move them to being equal values, the less drastic the strafing. all you need to adjust is the cl_sidespeed.