[quake2] Error: Couldn't load maps

[Rick Knight]

Thanks for the help Brendan. I had pak1 and pak2. Removing them solved 
the problem.

Thanks again,
Rick Knight

Brendan Burns wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>