alright. new here.

ezquake runs great, and it's pretty easy, but when trying to connect to some servers, specifically the ones that use specific mods like customTF it doesn't seem to download everything properly.

also i'm interested in running a server, but the page for mvdsv is down and i'm not sure how to use it.
i downloaded mvdsv_0.27_Win32_i386 from somewhere, and put it in a directory with the id1 pak0 and pak1, but all i get is 'you must have progs.dat from quakeworld installed'

any advice?

i'm not looking for anything fancy, just a way to start a game of quake, preferably with some sort of grappling hook, that my room mates can join in with.

try putting this mod in the /ctf directory

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=9150

then you need the ctf pak files, you can get them here: http://fquake.quakeonline.net/distfiles/nquake/resources/nquake-addon_ctf.zip

put them in the /ctf directory too

then start mvdsv with +gamedir ctf

then tell us here if that works or not, so the settings can be tweaked.

Hi,

I have been looking on the forums trying to get a server going but am getting this:

======== QuakeWorld Initialized ========
Added packfile ./ctf/pak0.pak (21 files)
Added packfile ./ctf/pak1.pak (20 files)
couldn't exec server.cfg
couldn't open accounts
VM_Load: "qwprogs"
SV_Error: You must have the progs.dat from QuakeWorld installed

I have:

e:/qwserver
e:/qwserver/mvdsv_0.27_Win32_i386.exe
e:/qwserver/id1/pak0.pak and pak1.pak
e:/qwserver/ctf..as you mentioned in the prior post
e:/qwserver/progs.dat
e:/qwserver/server.cfg
e:/qwserver/qwprogs.dll

Can you offer any suggestions?

Thanks

Do you have a qwprogs.dat in your CTF directory?
Does your server.conf have the following line: sv_progtype 0?

Hi

I have:

sv_enableprofile 0
Sv_progtype 0
sv_progsname qwprogs


And I have progs.dat in the root and in the ctf dir

What i'm wanting to do is run an old mod for Quake 1 in its original state. Am I going about this the right way?

Well try:
sv_progsname progs

But aren't trying to run a client mod?

e:/qwserver/progs.dat
e:/qwserver/server.cfg
e:/qwserver/qwprogs.dll

put these in the ctf directory and start mvdsv with parameters +gamedir ctf

Hi,

I tried that and got a little further, almost there I can see the light

I get:

MVDSV Project home page: http://mvdsv.sourceforge.net

======== QuakeWorld Initialized ========
Added packfile ./ctf/pak0.pak (21 files)
Added packfile ./ctf/pak1.pak (20 files)
execing server.cfg
couldn't open accounts
VM_Load: "qwprogs"
SV_Error: You must have the progs.dat from QuakeWorld installed

The shortcut is:

E:\qwserver\mvdsv_0.27_Win32_i386.exe mvdsv_0.27_Win32_i386.exe" +gamedir ctf

And the server.cfg file is now in E:\qwserver\ctf

sv_enableprofile 0
Sv_progtype 0
sv_progsname progs


I will be wanting to run this mod using nquake for and also on a server for the boys.

Thanks for your help so far

i'm guessing you have a non-qw progs.dat?

Thats possible where can I get the right one from?

Hi again,

I downloaded rocket arean from fileshack and used the progs.dat in here which was 300k smaller.

I now get:

======== QuakeWorld Initialized ========
Added packfile ./ctf/pak0.pak (21 files)
Added packfile ./ctf/pak1.pak (20 files)
execing server.cfg
couldn't open accounts
VM_Load: "qwprogs"

to recap the directory structure is:

e:/qwserver
e:/qwserver/mvdsv_0.27_Win32_i386.exe
e:/qwserver/id1/pak0.pak and pak1.pak

e:/qwserver/ctf
e:/qwserver/ctf/progs.dat
e:/qwserver/ctf/server.cfg
e:/qwserver/ctf/qwprogs.dll
e:/qwserver/ctf/qwprogs.dat

Stupid question I guess but whats the diff between progs.dat and qwprogs.dat?

Thanks

you should put the rocket arena qwprogs.dat in its own folder, e.g. qwserver/arena/qwprogs.dat

and run mvdsv with +gamedir arena

I just checked and it is in here.

i get:

Added packfile ./id1/pak0.pak (339 files)
Added packfile ./id1/pak1.pak (85 files)
WinSock version is: 1.1
UDP Initialized
Initialized default mod messages.
Total: 60 messages.
Process priority class set to HIGH
16.0 megabyte heap
MVDSV 0.27 rev.643 (w), build 2772
Build date: Jul 24 2007, 20:22:02

MVDSV Project home page: http://mvdsv.sourceforge.net

======== QuakeWorld Initialized ========
execing server.cfg
couldn't open accounts
VM_Load: "qwprogs"

everything looks fine there, what's the problem?

Really? I havn't tried hooking up to it yet but saw the "couldn't open accounts error" and figured it was a no go

If thats sweet i'll give it a go

Cheers for the assistance

haha