Quake 3 Arena won't install anymore!! Need HELP!

[Hani]

Hello everybody,

Quake3 Arena used to install perfectly on my old system (P200MMX, 128MB RAM, Voodoo3). Now, I have upgrdaded to a Thunderbird 1GHz on an Eopx 8K7A with a Radeon LE. I am using the same CD, and the same CD-ROM Drive.

Whenever I select maximum install, it gives me an error when it reaches 96% "Error -117". When I select minimum installation, it installs ok, but when I try to run the game, the console stops and says "Can't load default.cfg".

I really need to get this fixed, I miss Q3A.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Hani]

anybody?

 

[UberNeuman]

Is the disk scratched? Have you defragmented your hard drive?

 

[dave5317]

U using win 98/ME or 2k.Make sure the game can support this.Have u ever format and clear the trash for ur pc??

 

[vash]

Have you tried copying the contents of the drive to your drive, then installing? Sounds like the CD is scratched. Mine did, good thing I made a backup of it

vash

 

[Hani]

Oh Sh*t! The CD-ROM is scrachted

The strange thing is that yesterday, I tried to install it on minimum, and it worked fine. I tired running it today, and I got the default.cfg error

Thanks...

 

[Shagga]

Warez CD's scratch so easy You should be more careful.

 

[Renob]

Did you format after your upgrade??? if not you need to.

 

[ApacheXMD]

try this:
manually create a "quake III arena" folder in program files
and in that, create another folder called "baseq3"
then manually copy the the pak0.pk3 and pak1.pk3 files from the CD-ROM baseq3 folder, into the baseq3 on your harddrive.
Then download the latest point release from id's site and install it.
That should work

-patchy

 

[Hani]

ApacheXMD, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

And yes, I have formatted and installed everything from scratch. I am using Win2k at the moment.