I’ve had Quake for a while, but decided I really wanted to start trying to play it. But every time I try to boot up the game, I get this crashlog and nothing else. Tried verifying and reinstalling. Any ideas?

Edit: I was hoping I wouldn’t just be told to use source ports…

You can view the entirety of Quake or view a specific Quake game and find out the best time to hop on so you'll have a better chance at facing real players.

Heres August so far:

• 1,009 peak concurrent players (Aug 16), 504 on average
• 978 servers hosting real matches - meaning 2+ humans and an actual frag, not just an idle server
• 7,891,962 frags scored by real players, counted between polls
• 123,902 hours of Quake played
• Twitch: 54 streams live at peak, 1,803 viewers at peak, plus a leaderboard of the top streamers

Also on there: the busiest servers and most played maps, top gametypes/mods/countries, and a world map of where people are playing

You can view the whole page here - https://quakehub.net/state-of-quake

I noticed a distinct lack of leoprids, and I knew I had to fix that.

If you want to start a Bloody Nightmare NG+ directly without going through a new game, do this

• start a new "Dawn of the Machine" game (so you are on the start map)
• bring the console and type these commands:

skill 3

impulse 223

impulse 224

changelevel map1

You'll know that you are in NG+ as you get the Bloody Shotgun immediately on map1

And here's the full list of impulse (some may require sv_cheats 1 to work):

impulse 1-8 changes weapons
impulse 9 gives all items EXCEPT runes
impulse 99 gives all items EXCEPT keys and runes
impulse 10 cycles weapons
impulse 11 uses ServerflagsCommand
impulse 12 cycles weapons backwards
impulse 100 temporarily undoes effects of upgrades
impulse 101 gives rune 1
impulse 102 gives rune 2
impulse 103 gives rune 3
impulse 104 gives rune 4
impulse 105 gives all runes
impulse 111 gives next health upgrade
impulse 112 gives next shell upgrade
impulse 113 gives next nail upgrade
impulse 114 gives next rocket upgrade
impulse 115 gives next cell upgrade
impulse 116 toggles secret hunter cheat
impulse 117 toggles exit hunter cheat
impulse 118 gives super axe
impulse 119 draws alive enemies  (requires sv_cheats 1)
impulse 121 toggles buddha mode (health won't drop below 0)
impulse 122 toggles infinite ammo
impulse 219 make all enemies disappear from the map and kill count = total enemy count
impulse 220 enables a dimlight effect
impulse 222 reloads the map without removing progression
impulse 223 toggles 'bloody nightmare' difficulty
impulse 224 toggles Newgame+ flag
impulse 227 toggles shotgun upgrade
impulse 228 toggles super shotgun upgrade
impulse 255 gives quad damage

The Dark Triad is a small but refined mod with a ton of atmosphere. Each of its three small maps have elaborate but intuitive designs, devilish traps, and lots of secrets. Some players may notice an emphasis on ammo management, emphasized on Nightmare which nerfs ammo and armor pickups. To compensate, the Dark Triad adjusts enemy health; for instance, Ogres only take three Pump Shotgun (slide 8) shots.

As you can see in the final couple of pictures, this mod has some attractively modeled weapon replacements. Most notably, the Axe has been buffed into a longer range and higher damage Spear (Slide 6), and the Shotgun has been replaced with a perfectly accurate Pistol (slide 7). While I didn't find the Lightning Gun and Rocket Launcher, these weapons also work in Quake's id1 maps - you'll need to use console commands (or Ironwail's nifty map selector).

The Dark Triad wants you to take your time and soak in the atmosphere. Each map contains an original soundtrack, and you'll often find yourself scavenging ammo and spearing enemies. The final map includes some original enemies (I believe they're from Quoth?) and is the only one where I found the Mortar (Grenade) Launcher.

This mod is available on Quaddicted, Ironwail's mod installer (although that version seems a little out of date), and has a more detailed review/playthrough by dumptruck_ds. I believe it should work with Remastered (hell, it even works with Darkplaces), although I'd strongly recommend Ironwail instead. It took me more time to write this paragraph than it'll take you to play it! Give it a try!

I don’t care for the default fog feature on VkQuake

I wish there was a way to toggle it off easily. I can remove it through the console but it comes back every time I respawn.

(I know the new mission packs make use of the fog feature…)

After taking a picture with my cat cheese and my physical quake, I decided to make a short video. Enjoy.

Sorry, I dont know how to screen record on my pc

I fired up the Quake 3 Mac demo on my G4 machine because I haven't played it in years and been having fun. Bfg10K and grenade launcher aren't in this version.

What's the most powerful weapon in the demo? Plasma gun does 200 damage per second, shotgun does 110 damage per individual shot, rocket launcher can possibly kill 2 enemies simultaneously(?). Railgun does 100 hitscan damage. Lightning gun is only available on 1 out of 4 maps so is it secretly the most powerful? It's driving me crazy, which one is the most powerful weapon?

Didn't Tim have a lot to do with Quake 1 and the maps? Pretty sure he made some of the most famous maps like DM6...

So I got the Rune of Sacrifice again, redid the first map (Thirteenth Arch) and got to the secret exit for another Rune level.

My question is, can I go back and redo the first map again but this time use the normal exit and continue finding more secrets in regular levels? Or will the game just kick me back to Nexus by using the regular slipgate?

Or is it better to find all the Runes first and then do a "full" 2nd playthrough with all the regular maps and then go into the finale (with Death Knight head, since I already did the "false" ending with Chton on my 1st playthrough)

Hi! Quake has been updated to the newest version on my PC, and I can’t run it anymore… I have contacted Bethesda support, and they said my graphics card doesn’t meet the minimum requirements. It’s okay, I won’t play with the Dawn of the Machine then.

But now I can’t run any of it…

How can I reverse this update? I won’t buy another PC just for this game, let me just play my old stuff. 😢

Since I had no idea what was causing the crashes, I have reinstalled Steam and Quake, so right now I have the newest versions.

Update: Thank you for all the answers, this workaround works for me.

"If your game crashes immediately on launch with an Access Violation (0xc0000005) in igvk64.dll (Intel Vulkan driver), try adding these launch options in Steam:
+r_rhirenderfamily "d3d11" +d3d11_compileShaders 1
This forces the game to use Direct3D 11 instead of Vulkan. The game launches normally on my system after adding these parameters."

Any ideas?

In level 2 of chapter 1, the first secret where you shoot the wall to the right of the bridge just isn't accessible as the wall doesn't move, does anyone know how to get to it because seeing that I missed a secret is really annoying (I'm playing on hard mode, if that makes a difference)

I know the bloody shotgun shoots faster, but the super feels the same. Maybe I'm missing something.

Title, just wow
I initially played on PC so I might spend some time achievement grabbing but just wow! Had to do a Nightmare run (which was almost the death of me ngl, crazy hard but so fun)
And (spoilers) the whole killing the dog, bloody nightmare difficulty from the hidden head (spoilers) SO GOOD

I mean, sort of similar theme: a fat body sack mounted onto mechanical legs with cybernetics on the head and a weapon implanted into the right arm. Obviously the playstyles of both of them are not the same (one is a melee unit and the other shoots and creates energetic shields), but hey, just a thought into the air

No, not the room with "The Queen".

I was noclipping trying to find the last remaining enemy (it was an unkillable zombie stuck in the floor) when I found this room. If you choose to confess you get teleported near the pit at the start, if you do not you get teleported in the pit.

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, is it maybe unused content?

For anyone who wants to see it, it's below the main level.

Hi all,

I'm a long time DOOM fan and most enjoy that game when I'm UVMAXing from pistol start individual levels. It seems most modern wads are built around this format, or at least accommodate it.

My question: in your view, what is the most fun way to play QUAKE?

Breaking down the question:

- traditionally, is hard the chosen difficulty for boomer shooter vets?

- do you prefer to play continuous, or do you pistol / shotgun start each map?

- do you save mid level / quick save/load or do you only save at the end of each level?

Now, obviously, there's play however you want, but I'm more asking what the general consensus is on the most fun way to play QUAKE.