[quake2] Error: Couldn't load maps

[Brendan Burns]

Hmm,
make sure that you only have pak0.pak in your baseq2 dir, not pak1 or 
higher...

--brendan

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 04:27  PM, Rick Knight wrote:

> Brendan,
>
> I am in the Quake2 directory (/usr/local/games/quake2). I've also 
> tried to run Quake2 from $HOME using "/usr/local/games/quake2/quake2 
> +set basedir /usr/local/games/quake2". Still get the same message. I 
> didn't notice earlier, but I also get another error, "ERROR: Couldn't 
> open demos/demo1.dm2"
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
> Brendan Burns wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>> Are you in the <path-to-quake-goes-here/quake2/ directory?
>>
>> If not, you may need to add +set basedir 
>> <path-to-quake-goes-here>/quake2/ to your startup command.
>>
>> eg quake2 +set basedir /usr/local/games/quake2
>>
>> hth
>> --brendan
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:52  PM, Rick Knight wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed Release 0.15 on my notebook PC at work and 
>>> downloaded the Quake2 demo. I followed the instructions for 
>>> installing Quake2 demo data. When I try to run Q2 I get stuck at the 
>>> Q2 console with this error messages "Error: Couldn't load 
>>> maps/base1.bsp". I can go into the menu and change settings, but I 
>>> can't get the game to play? What do I need to do to fix this error?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rick Knight
>>>
>>>
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