Quake3World

I've been playing Q3A since it was in demo. Mostly in single player mode against the bots. Recently I had to re-format my HDD and so I'm having to start over rebuilding the game. I remember using a command line extension to start the game with all levels unlocked but can't remember the extension. I'm hoping someone here can help. Thanks.

You mean the /iamamonkey command? It unlocks all the tiers at level 100.

^misantropia^ wrote:You mean the /iamamonkey command? It unlocks all the tiers at level 100.

I know that works when used from the console but you must use it every time you open the game, I think. What I've used previously is an extension entered in the properties window of the shortcut used to start the game. If that command is entered there the properties window cannot be closed and causes an error message.

edit: I just tried the "iamamonkey" command from the console and it didn't work there either.

you can force unlock them by opening your q3config.cfg and changing the g_spScores1 / g_spScores5 to something. not sure about the actual syntax, find the line that starts with

seta g_spScores5

and change it to

seta g_spScores5 "\l21\1\l25\1\l22\1\l20\1\l12\1\l10\1\l7\1\l1\1\l5\1\l15\1\l11\1\l19\1\l6\1\l18\1\l2\1\l0\1\l8\1\l13\1\l14\1\l4\1\l24\1\l3\1\l9\1\l17\1\l16\1\l23\1"

dont worry if you mess it up, you can easily delete the q3config.cfg file without breaking your install. you will however lose all your settings.

so back up your q3config.cfg file before you mess with anything

I have one problem trying this. I'm opening it with notepad and the lines all run together. I can find the line beginning "seta g_spScores5" even though it's actually in the middle of a line. The problem is I don't know where that line is suppose to end so I don't know how much to delete.


EDIT: I got it to work. Thanks. Now I need to figure out why the game is so dark. The brightness is turnrd up full. Any ideas?

r_gamma is the cvar you want, set it to something like 1.5.

I tried setting it to 1.5 but it made no difference. The brightness slider doesn't work at all. I think I need to re-install. Also, I'm not getting any e-mail notifications.

fullscreen or windowed mode ?

setting r_gamma even higher doesn't do anything noticeable? A vid_restart isn't required iirc??

Nope, no vid_restart required. If the brightness slider is grayed out, your video driver doesn't support gamma adjustments.

r_fullbright 1 might be sort of a fix, tho not an elegant one

^misantropia^ wrote:Nope, no vid_restart required. If the brightness slider is grayed out, your video driver doesn't support gamma adjustments.

The brightness slider isn't grayed out. It just has no effect. Also, I'm running full screen. Still not getting any e-mail notification.

menkent wrote:so back up your q3config.cfg file before you mess with anything

or make an autoexec.cfg:

1. rename q3config.cfg to something else (e.g. q3config.bak). from this point, you should never need to edit q3config.cfg again - q3config.cfg will be recreated (with the default settings) the next time q3 runs and will be overwritten with the latest settings every time after that.

2. copy your backup file (q3config.bak) to autoexec.cfg.

3. open autoexec.cfg in wordpad and delete all of the lines that you're not interested in/don't understand.

also - are you running q3 under vista? if you are then right-click on quake3.exe, go to properties and set the compatibility for xp (i'm not on a vista machine to look it up but the option will be something like 'XP Service Pack 3'). that might fix the darkness thing. iirc i had to do something similar when i put vista on my home machine.

another one to try is setting r_ignorehwgamma to "1" (you'll need to /vid_restart afterwards if you're doing that in the console).