Qizmo
Qizmo is a QuakeWorld proxy, it works with network packets moving
between a QW client and a QW server.
Made by 
Zibbo and Perkele of UDP Soft.
Official website (now dead)
This page is a guide to Qizmo. To more information about running a Qizmo on a server, visit How to server.
How to use a Qizmo (Quickstart)
- Start QuakeWorld
- Type
/connect <ip to qizmo>in the console and press enter (now you should be connected to the Qizmo). - Type
.connect <ip to server>to connect via current Qizmo the the given server ip.*
* With the command cl_useproxy set to 1, there is no need to use the .connect command as the regular /connect command will work just fine (will only work in ezQuake).
Using the Qizmo menu
- Type
.menu bind stdto get the default bindings. After you enter this you can navigate through the different Qizmo menus.
Default Qizmo Bindings
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Qizmo Lag fix features
Qizmo has some unique features regarding lag and packetloss reduction. These are described in this article by Dirtbox and have their own wiki page Qizmo lag fix.
Color Forcing
See what's color forcing. Following text was borrowed from Pektopah
To enable color forcing in Qizmo use your arrows and enter to select "Teamplay help" -> Team color set this value to X/0 (zero). Change also the Enemy color to X/4.
It should look like this:
Now you have red enemyskin and white teamskin. You can change these colours by changing the values of "Z" in the X/"Z" setting. To get QizmoColours(C) really working the next step is to set our team- and enemyskins.
Type "enemyskin qizmo" and "teamskin qizmo" Then turn off colorforcing by typing "teamcolor off" and "enemycolor off". You've to write "off" there, the usual "" is not enough.
You need special kind of skins installed in your Quake dir, you can try this one
When connecting to a server remember to use .connect, otherwise you'll be disconnected from the qizmo-server, and thus colours wont work.
The first ID colour is white (as the ID is set like 1,2,3,4,5..a.s.o as people connect to a server) so the colours still work if you're all white. Invite a friend to test these with you so you'll notice the difference (second ID-colour is brown).
More options
For more options, check the original index.html page below.
Qizmo server
Even though Qizmo was created in 1997, it STILL is useful to:
-> Nail filter: Run on a server-side Qizmo, this can help with both the network and FPS lag associated with a lot of nailgun activity (think about 4on4 on e1m2). -> Compression: Yes, people still have low bandwidth connections and compression does help with this. -> Sending Multiple Packets: This is probably the most important one. With this feature alone you can lower and in some cases eliminate packet loss.
Installation
To install qizmo (LINUX!):
mkdir qizmo && cd qizmo wget https://www.quaddicted.com/files/tools/qizmo-2.91-intel-linux-glibc.tar.gz tar -xvf qizmo-2.91-intel-linux-glibc.tar.gz chmod +x qizmo
alternative url to download: ftp://62.8.228.163/pub/games/quakeworld/qizmo-2.91-intel-linux-glibc.tar.gz
Recommended configuration files
These are up to date server configuration files as of 2020.
filters.txt
not empty 10 if players = "0" remove not full 10 if players = maxplayers remove ping less than 100 10 if ping >= "100" remove ping less than 50 10 if ping >= "50" remove QWfwd (proxy) 10 if hostname ~!= "*qwfwd*" remove not QWfwd (proxy) 10 if hostname ~= "*qwfwd*" remove 20 if hostname ~= "*qizmo*" remove Qizmo 10 if hostname ~!= "*Qizmo*" remove Capture the Flag 10 if gamedir ~!= "ctf" remove Team Fortress 10 if gamedir ~!= "fortress" remove Rocket Arena 10 if gamedir ~!= "*arena" remove Cooperative 10 if hostname ~!= "*coop*" remove Race 10 if hostname ~!= "*race*" remove
qizmo.cfg
qizmo.cfg is generated the first time you use. so you might want to run qizmo first, and then edit the file. The changes you made in the generic menus (once you insert the password) are saved here. Here's an example:
maxclients 32 browser_a 100 20 1.000000 2.000000 name ie.besmella.com hostname Qizmo - ie.besmella.com public 1 quakedir ./ //if qizmo binary is in the same folder as Quake maxs2crepeat 5
Change name and hostname for your own. Notice that public is 1.
sources.txt
Editing server sources is important because it will allow the clients to ping the quakeworld servers and connect to them. The file sources.txt should have the following lines (you can remove everything else):
master "QuakeServers.net" 78.47.113.68:27000 2 master "FodQuake" 5.9.97.180:27000 2
The explanation for those lines are:
master <name of the master> <ip:port> <password protection>
Notes:
- <ip> MUST BE IP, hostname doesn't work;
- <password protection> possible values: 0: none ; 1: protect delete; 2: protect delete/add; 3: protect delete/add/read
Starting Qizmo
Starting qizmo (with the following settings: port 28000, report to masterservers, admin password set to passwd)
./qizmo -p 28000 -r -a passwd
Here's an example script you can use to run it (or just run a screen):
echo -n "* Starting qizmo... " if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep "qizmo" > /dev/null then echo "[ALREADY RUNNING]" else ./qizmo -p 28000 -r -a passwd > /dev/null & echo "[OK]" fi
Troubleshooting
Dependencies: try to get the library lib32z1
apt-get install lib32z1
if that doesn't work, try these: ia32-libs or libc6-i386 or libc6-dev-i386
For the server admins that run Qizmo(s) and when they refuse to start. You can use the following command in the shell (linux) to clear the queue without needing to restart/reboot the whole machine.
ipcs -q | cut -d" " -f2 | xargs -n 1 ipcrm -q
more info
refer to the qizmo.html page below.
Qizmo links
- Qizmo download (unofficial)
- index.htm page from qizmo
- Qizmo stuff
- Qizmo main page
External links
- Tutorial: How to spectate through a Qizmo
- Qizmo download (unofficial)
- index.htm page from qizmo
- Qizmo stuff
- How_to_server#Qizmo Setup Qizmo for server admins
- How to use Qizmo to fix lag tutorial by Dirtbox
- Qizmo lag fix clone of the tutorial above