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Posted October 01, 2015
The background music tracks play only once in each level for both Q1 and 2 in Windows 7. I found some references to this online and links to mega-patches etc., but does anyone have the fix or patch for *just* this problem? Both games already have the music as .ogg files, so that part is done. Preferably wouldn't want to alter the games in any other way.
Posted October 01, 2015
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sndwv: The background music tracks play only once in each level for both Q1 and 2 in Windows 7. I found some references to this online and links to mega-patches etc., but does anyone have the fix or patch for *just* this problem? Both games already have the music as .ogg files, so that part is done. Preferably wouldn't want to alter the games in any other way.
Try this patch for Quake 2 : http://leray.proboards.com/thread/3258/quake2-24-unofficial-patch-released

And this source port for Quake 1: http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net/download.htm

For the Quake 1 source port you will need to create a file titled "music" inside the id1, rogue and hipnotic folders then move the correct ogg files into each.

Edit: Just saw that you said you didn't want to alter the games in any other way, so Quakespasm for Quake 1 may go against that. The Quake 2 patch adds widescreen support and a few other features, but is pretty much like the original as far as I can tell.
Post edited October 01, 2015 by haydenaurion
Posted October 01, 2015
GLQuake has many problems, even compared with the software mode renderer. The is a great comparison on quaddicted.com.

Quakespasm, which haydenaurion mentioned, fixes these problems (and your music problem) while staying true in all gameplay aspects. I can't recommend it enough.

I would recommend Yamagi Quake 2 for Quake 2 instead. This port fixes an incredible huge amount of bugs (especially noticable during coop) and has perfect music support.
Posted October 02, 2015
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mk47at: GLQuake has many problems, even compared with the software mode renderer. The is a great comparison on quaddicted.com.

Quakespasm, which haydenaurion mentioned, fixes these problems (and your music problem) while staying true in all gameplay aspects. I can't recommend it enough.

I would recommend Yamagi Quake 2 for Quake 2 instead. This port fixes an incredible huge amount of bugs (especially noticable during coop) and has perfect music support.
I get a warning from google chrome when downloading Yamagi saying "this file could be harmful to your computer", is that a false alarm?
Post edited October 02, 2015 by haydenaurion
Posted October 02, 2015
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mk47at: GLQuake has many problems, even compared with the software mode renderer. The is a great comparison on quaddicted.com.

Quakespasm, which haydenaurion mentioned, fixes these problems (and your music problem) while staying true in all gameplay aspects. I can't recommend it enough.

I would recommend Yamagi Quake 2 for Quake 2 instead. This port fixes an incredible huge amount of bugs (especially noticable during coop) and has perfect music support.
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haydenaurion: I get a warning from google chrome when downloading Yamagi saying "this file could be harmful to your computer", is that a false alarm?
I would guess so. Does chrome warn on other files as well? I use Firefox... I play on Linux and compile my own binaries, but I've exchanged a few emails with Yamagi and he seems trustworthy.
Posted October 02, 2015
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haydenaurion: I get a warning from google chrome when downloading Yamagi saying "this file could be harmful to your computer", is that a false alarm?
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mk47at: I would guess so. Does chrome warn on other files as well? I use Firefox... I play on Linux and compile my own binaries, but I've exchanged a few emails with Yamagi and he seems trustworthy.
I do get warnings with other files on rare occasions.
Post edited October 02, 2015 by haydenaurion
Posted October 02, 2015
Thanks; I'll take a look at these! I want to stay as close to original as possible (just make it work) but I see that some of these ports do just that. Was put off the whole port concept a bit remembering videos of 'enhanced' Doom ports etc. that looked really garish to me, adding all sorts of lighting and filtering effects that looked out of place, but that doesn't appear to be the case with these (though at a glance it seems Quakespasm will need some configuring to turn features off).
Posted October 02, 2015
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sndwv: Thanks; I'll take a look at these! I want to stay as close to original as possible (just make it work) but I see that some of these ports do just that. Was put off the whole port concept a bit remembering videos of 'enhanced' Doom ports etc. that looked really garish to me, adding all sorts of lighting and filtering effects that looked out of place, but that doesn't appear to be the case with these (though at a glance it seems Quakespasm will need some configuring to turn features off).
I would recommend the following console commands
gl_texturemode GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR
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r_particles 2
but that is a matter of taste. The defaults should be GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR and 1 respectively.

I disable auto aim (sv_aim 1) and play with a crosshair (crosshair 1), but that's obviously not vanilla.
Posted October 02, 2015
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mk47at: I would recommend the following console commands
gl_texturemode GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR
and
r_particles 2
but that is a matter of taste. The defaults should be GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR and 1 respectively.

I disable auto aim (sv_aim 1) and play with a crosshair (crosshair 1), but that's obviously not vanilla.
Thanks!
Posted October 02, 2015
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sndwv: The background music tracks play only once in each level for both Q1 and 2 in Windows 7. I found some references to this online and links to mega-patches etc., but does anyone have the fix or patch for *just* this problem? Both games already have the music as .ogg files, so that part is done. Preferably wouldn't want to alter the games in any other way.
Found another solution for Quake 2 as unofficial 3.24 alone wasn't looping them. Try this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113399618&insideModal=0

It seems you can use that to patch unofficial 3.24 exe too as I tested it just now and it works fine.

Also works with Quake 1 and Hexen 2 supposedly.
Post edited October 02, 2015 by haydenaurion
Posted October 03, 2015
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haydenaurion: Found another solution for Quake 2 as unofficial 3.24 alone wasn't looping them. Try this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113399618&insideModal=0

It seems you can use that to patch unofficial 3.24 exe too as I tested it just now and it works fine.

Also works with Quake 1 and Hexen 2 supposedly.
This doesn't work for KMQuake 2 though. Just tried. Now my game has microstutters and no music at all. :(
Posted October 04, 2015
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haydenaurion: Found another solution for Quake 2 as unofficial 3.24 alone wasn't looping them. Try this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=113399618&insideModal=0

It seems you can use that to patch unofficial 3.24 exe too as I tested it just now and it works fine.

Also works with Quake 1 and Hexen 2 supposedly.
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Ghostbreed: This doesn't work for KMQuake 2 though. Just tried. Now my game has microstutters and no music at all. :(
Crap, i've never used it with that. Sorry about that.
Posted October 04, 2015
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haydenaurion: Crap, i've never used it with that. Sorry about that.
Not your fault. Guess I have to use just the unofficial patch instead.
Posted October 05, 2015
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haydenaurion:
Hey, I fixed it! All I did was to move the 'music' folder from the root folder to the 'baseq2' folder.
Now the music loops as intended in KMQ 2 until all missions in a level is completed.
Post edited October 05, 2015 by Ghostbreed
Posted October 06, 2015
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haydenaurion:
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Ghostbreed: Hey, I fixed it! All I did was to move the 'music' folder from the root folder to the 'baseq2' folder.
Now the music loops as intended in KMQ 2 until all missions in a level is completed.
Yeah, it seems you have to do the same with the Yamagi port as well.
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