Quake 2 and config.cfg file help

[Gary Harper]

OK, I finally got Quake 2 v3.20 to run with my TNT card using the Detonator
353 drivers. Everything's cool. However, when I try to restart the game
(double-clicking the icon), my screen freezes. I remember someone on this
board said that if this happens, to delete the config.cfg file in the Quake2
directory. That's all fine and good, but that means I have to delete the
file everytime I exit the game and want to start it again from scratch. Does
anyone have a way around this? How can I save the settings I change when I
first go into the game so that it could start that way again and not hang?
Thanks for any and everyone's help!

-Gary

[Gary Harper]

Apathy, what exactly goes into this autoexec.cfg file? Is it the same info
as the config.cfg file, and what directory should it go in? I looked at the
website you directed me to, and I'm still a bit confused. I still have to
delete the config.cfg file to go back into the game. Should the autoexec
file call the config file, and if so, how do you do that?
In the config or autoexec file, what should "set gl_driver" be set to?
Nvidia's Open GL driver (nv4ogl.dll) or opengl32? Where in the directories
should one or both dll files reside? Maybe that's my problem! I don't know!
Please clarify a little further as this is really getting to be a nuisance.
Thanks for your help!

-Gary

Apathy <dexters...@mindlesLY.com> wrote in message
news:0FA5E1B7924810ED.6A6CA585...@lp.airnews.net...
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:56:54 GMT, "Gary Harper" <gary....@home.com>
> created the following masterwork of rhetoric:

> It sounds like you'll need to create an "autoexec.cfg" file to go in
> your baseq2 directory containing all the settings that you want
> initialized each time Q2 starts. There should be some info. in the
> AGQ2 FAQ about it. Check it out.
>
>
> Apathy[AGQx] -- Dexter Sinister
> http://members.xoom.com/DexSin/index.html
> >>=======> Scientia Est Potentia <=======<<
> Read the Official AGQ2 FAQ:
> http://www.agqx.org/agq2faq.html

[Cannis Rabidus]

You could put the files anywhere, but then you'd have to specify paths.
The easiest is to just put all your configs in \baseq2\
On startup, quake2.exe does this:
exec default.cfg (this is in the pakfile)
exec config.cfg (you know about this)
exec autoexec.cfg (this is your file)

You could also call other files, either from autoexec.cfg or from the
command line.

If the current config.cfg is crashing you, then if autoexec is a copy then
the same thing will happen. (I don't know why this is happening to you in
the first place). Check your icon's command line, maybe there's something
loaded on the command line that shouldn't be. The most common use of the
autoexec.cfg file is to specify things that aren't saved in config.cfg,
and/or load scripts and aliases.

CR
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