Hi, this is my first note… Well, I installed Quake 3 Arena for PC because I wanted to play and test my new mouse… I installed the game and opened it… but when it opened, the game was literally going at 1fps, I was in the code menu, and I couldn’t do anything, because it literally goes at 1fps, can someone help me? I am on Windows 10 and I have a good PC and I have all the drivers installed, please I want to play this gem again but I can’t, please help!!!

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So I have tried using Quake Injector and I have had nothing but issues. First off, I have the Settings option for executable as vkQuake.exe, and I have the Quake directory selected as steam/steamapps/common/Quake. I have tried to download over a dozen different maps, and each time I hit the Play button, it loads vkQuake and the console throws out the error “Couldn’t find map x.bsp”.

I have tried making different directories with the PAK files in an id1 folder, I have tried using the base quake.exe as an executable in the Settings, I have tried putting Quake Injector into my actual Quake directory in the Steam folders, and NOTHING works. I have tried to find an answer to this question, and I can’t find a single helpful answer, article, or piece of documentation anywhere. I am at my wits end – I’m used to modding Doom, which is as straightforward as can be. I’ve had nothing but trouble with this, and there’s little to no documentation or straightforward tutorials anywhere that are helpful whatsoever.

Does anyone know how to get this working?

EDIT: I finally got it working. Here’s what I did: I uninstalled Quake, vkQuake, and Quake Injector. I reinstalled Quake, and put BOTH vkQuake and Quake Injector into the Steam Quake directory. All 3 executables MUST be in the same default directory that Quake was installed into, otherwise it will not work.

I must’ve checked around 50 profiles of good players because I was curious to see how many hours they had played, every single one had their game info hidden or profile privated.

Edit: what made me ask this was because pretty much every quake player who i’ve played with and checked, has a private profile/private game info, which is disproportionately more compared to any other game. i know why people in general set their info to private, but i was wondering what it is with quake specifically that the players are always hiding their info. i just found it interesting.

I must’ve checked around 50 profiles of good players because I was curious to see how many hours they had played, every single one had their game info hidden or profile privated.

Edit: what made me ask this was because pretty much every quake player who i’ve played with and checked, has a private profile/private game info, which is disproportionately more compared to any other game. i know why people in general set their info to private, but i was wondering what it is with quake specifically that the players are always hiding their info. i just found it interesting.

So I have tried using Quake Injector and I have had nothing but issues. First off, I have the Settings option for executable as vkQuake.exe, and I have the Quake directory selected as steam/steamapps/common/Quake. I have tried to download over a dozen different maps, and each time I hit the Play button, it loads vkQuake and the console throws out the error “Couldn’t find map x.bsp”.

I have tried making different directories with the PAK files in an id1 folder, I have tried using the base quake.exe as an executable in the Settings, I have tried putting Quake Injector into my actual Quake directory in the Steam folders, and NOTHING works. I have tried to find an answer to this question, and I can’t find a single helpful answer, article, or piece of documentation anywhere. I am at my wits end – I’m used to modding Doom, which is as straightforward as can be. I’ve had nothing but trouble with this, and there’s little to no documentation or straightforward tutorials anywhere that are helpful whatsoever.

Does anyone know how to get this working?