[quake3] Freeze! & Installers

[Tony J. White]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:34:00PM +0100, Harsha Sri Narayana wrote:
>    It seems my less than exhaustive testing previously didn't prove enough. 
>    I'm not sure if it's the same problem, but I saved the terminal output and
>    I saved the error report produced by osx.
> 
>    Tony asked if I was using non standard pk3 files.  I have mods installed
>    and I'm trying to connect to a server which would require that mod; I
>    think it was excessiveplus.  Is that what you meant?
> 
>    I have an updated osx and I'm using rc2. 

I will test with the excessiveplus mod.  It sounds like there is a bug in
the PPC vm code that this mod exposes. 

>    ps.  Why is it that I need to put all my mods and pak files in the
>    /Library/Application Support/Quake file rather than in the normal
>    /Application folder?  It's almost as if that's the real q3 folder and the
>    one in applications is just a front. 

It's ~/Library/Application Support/Quake3/.  Note the "~/" which mean's a 
user's home directory.   This allows for multiple users to use the
same system without overwriting each others settings or polluting the
system gamedata.  This behaviour is not Mac specific, only the directory
name changes between win32 and *nix platforms.

-Tony

> 
>    On 08/09/06, Harsha Sri Narayana <harshavsn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      On 07/09/06, Tony J. White <tjw at webteam.net > wrote:
> 
>        On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 06:27:44PM +0100, Harsha Sri Narayana wrote:
>        >    I'm having problems with 1.32rc1 (for mac).  When I connect to
>        some
>        >    servers it exits and produces an error report.  If I'm not
>        providing the
>        >    right information, or if this is in the wrong place (ie should be
>        posted
>        >    to the forum) then tell me.
>        >
>        >    The report is attached to this email.
>        >    ps. Thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting in.
> 
>        The crash report says: "Version: 1.34-rc1 (1.34-rc1)"
> 
>        Have you tried the latest one (rc2)?
> 
>        http://icculus.org/quake3/files/ioquake3-1.34-rc2.dmg
> 
>        Also are you trying to use a mod and/or non-standard .pk3 files?
> 
>        It would be helpful to see the console log as well.  You can get this
>        by running ioquake3 in a terminal like this:
> 
>        cd /Applications/Quake3/ioquake3/
>        ./ioquake3-1.34-rc2.app/Contents/MacOS/ioquake3.ub
> 
>        -Tony
> 
>      Got it working
> 
>      I ran that ioquake3.ub on rc1 and it complained that I didn't have
>      /Users/SophieKhara/Library/Application Support/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3
>      although I did have all the pak files in
>      /Applications/Quake3/ioquake3/baseq3.  So I copied all the pak files
>      over. 
> 
>      Then I downloaded rc2 as instructed.  (In my original email I said
>      .32rc1 when I meant .34rc1, that was just habit .. years of typing . 3
>      2).
> 
>      I can't reproduce that crash anymore.  Thanks for the help.
>      -Harsha




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