Fragen und Antworten

Questions, Answers and Tips for Q-Start ...
On this page I try to answer questions about "Q-Start" ( if possible ).
If you got a question about Q-Start, mail to me : qstart@futurecrew.de

Please correct me when I'm wrong !!!

The support of the teamname in the last versions is only functional with Quake-World !
Normal Quake will ignore all switches in the commandline after this unknown switch, so it is impossible to start any "mod" or a server for more than 4 poeple as long as you use a teamname !
WinQuake and Gl-Quake will ignore this unknown switch without any problems.

So, if you are a DOS-Quaker : Don't use a Teamname or get Q-Start V 1.80 now !

Thanks to Andy Gaschka for this Tip and his wishes for the next version.

Tips:

Only one "cfg" for alle Mods !
If you use one keyboard-layout for all Mods, you can do this without copying your "cfg"-file to all subdirectories. There must only be one copy of your "cfg" in your quake-directory if you start Quake with the command-line-order "+exec ..\my.cfg" ( where my.cfg is the name of your cfg ). If you use Q-Start to start quake you can add this order in the submenu "Others" in the "Setting"-menu.

by Kay

Let Quake manage the memory !

"-winmem 16 -winlockunlock" oder "-winmem 32 -winlockunlock"

The result of this order ( when starting DOS-Quake ) is, that the memory you give to quake only will be locked for a short time. This forces the paging-frames into the RAM and if there is not enough memory left, all other running tasks will get back their memory. Quake only gets the really free RAM without disturbing the system. WINDOWS 95/98 only !

by Holger Sehlke

Questions and answers :

F:
What can I do against the message "Not enough memory in environment" when I start GlQuake ???

A:
GlQuake needs a lot of environment-memory for the "SET"-Orders !
You can give more free environment-memory to all DOS-applications or only to one ( if you use Q-Start, the application which needs the memory is "qs.bat" because this file contains all the "SET"-Orders ).

More environment for all DOS-applications:
To change the environment-space for all DOS-applications you must edit the properties of the file "_default.pif" in the Windows-directory - if this file does not exist you can copy "command.pif" or "dosprmt.pif" and save it as "_default.pif". "Click" the file ones to edit the properties. On the registercard "memory" is an editfield for the environment-memory. Change this to "2048". That's all.

Change environment only for Quake :
In your Quake-directory is a file named "qs.bat" ( Q-Start writes this file after you start Quake with Q-Start ). You can change the environmet-space for this file in the same way described above.

F:
Is "-WINMEM xx" important for Gl-Quake ?

A:
I think - no -
GlQuake uses the order "-HEAPSIZE xxxxx" for reserving memory. "xxxxx" should not be more than 50% of your systemmemory. I can't say, where the maximum is, we tested 32000 and 64000 and got no better results when allocating more memory.

F:
Is it possible to start a Quake-World-Server with Q-Start ?

A:
Not in the shareware-version !