Quake 3 Online problem

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Channu

Channu

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Hi,

I have quake 3 installed on my laptop. Everything is looks fine but the problem is that i'm able to play it online multi player only at some random times, almost once in a month or 2 it connects to servers. Rest of the days it just shows no responce from master server. I m able to play various other games like Urban terror, NFS etc. UT uses the same port as Q3 bt still it runs fine but not Q3.

What should i do to fix this ?
 
what servers are you trying to connect to? give the fragshack ones a shot. they're located in mumbai so your pings shouldn't be too bad. plus, they're up almost all the time.

202.88.131.139:28000 for OSP
202.88.131.139:27000 for CPMA
 
Their master server has probably croaked by now after all these years.
Open your hosts file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc) in notepad and add the following line at the very bottom.

127.0.0.1 authorize.quake3arena.com
 
how do you connect to fragshack....plz give detailed steps....

i've both osp and cpma mods, but i can't connect to these indian servers.

do i've to change my mod to osp tourney before searching for these servers?

and even then when i go to multiplayer, i choose select, enter the ip and port address, msg comes 'awaiting gamestate' and then it returns back to menu screen....i've been playing for ages on excessive plus servers...but have never got to connect to fragshack servers....plz help as i might get low pings here....
 
^if you go upto awaiting gamestate and then get kicked back to the menu screen, it's probably differences in versions or missing maps.

for FS OSP, you need q3 1.32 and OSP 1.03a. for FS CPMA, you need q3 1.32 again but since the server hasn't been updated in a long time, you'll need version 1.35 of the CPMA mod. you will also need whatever map the server is running.

edit : you can check your q3 version by bringing down the console.
 
I'm having a very old disk of quake 3 which i got in class 9th. What can i do with it ?

How should i go about updating and downloading n installing the mod files ? :huh:
 
When i try to connect to fragshack it says " server uses protocol 68" ! Now what should i do ?

Edit : Thanks Rio, m going to do this now and will post my results
 
Ignore all errors you have got so far... just follow those steps and try connecting - you shouldn't face any issues :)

You might also want to consider a fresh Q3 install btw.
 
thx ashr and Rio, i'll try again. Although i did have osp 1.03a before...let's see i'll use the hlsw utitlity.

I've been using qconnect utility to search online for servers (mainly excessive plus) and join from there only...
 
Yeah, Did everything. Its running quite fine. :)

Thanks to all of you for the help. Reps added for the gr8 support :)
 
prob still not solved here....

downloaded osp1.03a from the links you gave earlier, already was at 1.32 point release.

even then i'm unable to move past 'awaiting gamestate'....and get kicked back to menu....

maybe i should try reinstalling quake 3....thing is mine is ahem copy, and i didn't 'instal' it, just copied all the files from a friend, and it has worked fine...

again, no problem in other servers, only in cpma and osp servers.....
 
copying the files should work. did you try loading the mods before connecting to the servers? also do you have the maps the server runs? for the CPMA server, you'll most likely need the CPM map pack unless it's running base maps.

also, check if you have things like custom models installed in your baseq3 folder. do not copy over cfgs from other mods like excessive. in fact, try deleting the q3config.cfg from both OSP and CPMA folders.. then try connecting.
 
^CPMA will work most definitely without the CPM map pack if the server you're connecting to is running base maps. however, you cannot host a listen server without it, regardless of map used.

1.32 is also enough to connect to servers. 1.32c is optional iirc. it just fixes some security bugs but since the network protocol is unchanged, you can do without it.
 
Ok. I finally invested in a legit copy of q3 :)

And on following the steps, did get the fragshack to run.

But i'm getting 300ms pings with mtnl 256ul connec?!?

i get 200ms in excessive plus european servers.....

any idea why? and why don't we've more weapons on fragshack osp..just rail?
 
that's because the guys were playin "instagib"
which is.. only rail :)
otherwise its clan arena 24x7 :D
i play in fs too.. name= "EVIL"
RiO, ashR know who "EVIL" is :P

try these commands in ur console too.. after u enter the game..
though i dont know which 1 is exactly for optimising ping..these r commonly used commands.. :D
/cl_maxfps 0
/rate 25000
/snaps 40
don remember the remainin.. :(
RiO might be able to help u :)
new to fs eh :D ?
 
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