/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2180135
Well you see,I had installed The Ultimate Quake Patch to my steam version of Quake. Now I don't know if there's better patches available or whatever, but I've always used this in the past due to being easy to set up, and it re-adds the music and fixes the resolution and a bunch of other handy things.
In the past, it'd work no problem, but with this recent installation, the game would launch, all patched up pretty then promptly crash. An obvious problem.

Looking for additional help on the author's forums, I encountered other people with this problem, so I figured that at this point the patch was unsupported and abandoned.

But I can be quite tenacious and wanted to get this damn thing working so I could play some Quake, so I looked into my Steam directory.

Turns out, in my Quake files, there's an application titled "Winquake", naturally I started it up and it launched. And it was Quake, a patched up pretty Quake and more importantly, the game didn't crash. Knowing this, I created a desktop shortcut for Winquake to have access to the functioning version of the game at my finger tips.

Curiously, I never did see the author comment on this anywhere, but I suppose it doesn't matter.