.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .TH QUAKE2 6 "January 9, 2002" .SH NAME quake2 \- popular 3D action game .SH SYNOPSIS .B quake2 .RI [ options ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B quake2 command, which is used to launch the Quake 2 game engine. .br This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. .\" \fBquake2\fP is a program that... .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \+set vid_ref \fIdriver\fP Set the video output driver to use for playing the game. Current values available for \fIdriver\fP are \fIsoft\fP, \fIsoftx\fP, \fIglx\fP, \fIsoftsdl\fP, and \fIsdlgl\fP. .TP .B \+set cd_nocd 0 Disable CD audio .TP .B \+set s_initsound 0 Disable sound .TP .B \+set _windowed_mouse 0 Disable mouse grabbing. .TP .B \+set dedicated 1 Start a dedicated server, no graphical client will be launched. Clients may connect to this server for multiplayer games. .TP .B \+exec \fIconfig.cfg\fP \fIconfig.cfg\fP should contain commands to set server variables like so: .sp 1 .\".in +1i .ft B .nf set timelimit 20 set fraglimit 25 set dmflags 532 map fact3 .fi .ft P .\".in -1i .sp 1 If you use a config file, you must put a "map" command in it or the server will not load a map. .\" .SH SEE ALSO .\" .BR bar (1), .\" .BR baz (1). .SH BUGS .B quake2 +set vid_ref soft only works on i386, due to some unportable SVGALib code. .sp 1 The model viewer in Multiplayer->player setup displays the skins incorrectly. .sp 1 If you upgrade this package, your savegames will not work, due to the way savegames are made. .SH AUTHOR .B quake2 was originally written by iD Software. .sp 1 The SDL vid_ref driver was written by Steven Fuller . .sp 1 This manual page was written by Jamie Wilkinson , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).