Quake and Quake II on a modern system

[Taking a break from music videos for a short, short time.]


I may go into how awesome Quake 1 is someday, I want to address a common problem with newer video cards and graphics chipsets: GLQuake won't work!

The fix:

1. Delete (or rename or move) opengl32.dll from the Quake directory.
2. Play!

Some great console commands for GLQuake are:

• r_wateralpha .8 will make the water slightly transparent
• r_mirroralpha .8 will make slipgates kinda transparent
  
• +mlook will make the mouse work better
  
  
  
  

Also, I wanted to recommend FitzQuake as a good engine for today's needs. So is JoeQuake (gives Quake 3 looks to stuff), but I don't think it's being developed. They're nice and bright (cough, cough IDGamma). Another useful article is here.





Speaking of brightness, what about Quake II? Sure, it wasn't that spectacular of a sequel. It was a departure alright. But, with modern systems the game may be too dark. Here's what you do:

1. Access the configuration file at \%Quake2%\baseq2\config.cfg
2. Look for gl_modulate and change the number to 2.5
3. Look for gl_shadows and change the number to 0
4. Save and play!
   

If you are doing some testing in-game (ad hoc) in console (~ key), make sure to type: "disconnect" to apply the changes.