Issues with nQuake on Windows 7
This page is here to highlight some of the most common problems that may occur when installing nQuake on a Windows 7 computer.
I run ezQuake-gl.exe but the game never starts
This often happens the first times you try to run the game after a fresh nQuake installation on Windows 7. However, if you give the client some time to load (let's say 5 minutes) it will eventually start. The next time you try to start the game the loading times won't be as long.
I run ezQuake-gl.exe but the game always crashes on load
Make sure you run the game with administrator rights (right-click ezQuake-gl.exe and choose "Run as Administrator") and try to run it several times.
I use cfg_save to save my config, but i get an error message stating that the config can't be saved
As the c:\program files\ folder is write protected in Windows 7, there are two solutions to this:
- When you run ezQuake-gl.exe, right-click and choose "Run as Administrator" (most likely solution)
- Set the media and config directory to the Windows home directory by using the commands cl_mediaroot 1 (for automatic saving of demos and screenshots) and cfg_use_home 1 (for saving configs). Your demos, screenshots and configs can now be found in the directory C:\Users\<You>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\nQuake\... which is writeable for ezQuake.