Then install the patch to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, BLANK FOLDER. Then download the patch AGAIN from a NEW SOURCE, it's all over the net just search for the file. What you need to do is install the game from your CD to a completely fresh folder. Probably a few more causes too, whatever. This can happen if the patch installer can't update a file, or if the patch installer is corrupted and can't supply one of the files. The error you're getting means that the quake3.exe and the pak files above are not the correct versions. Everything else is either optional or complete fluff. The only components needed to make Quake 3 run are: I never installed 1.32c, what is that? Maybe I need to download and install the 1.32c? pretty sure someone wrote a utility to crc check all the files.

google or searching this forum should be able to help you find a means of checking the cd.

if you can't, then maybe there's a problem with the cd. if you can run the game, then the problem is with patching. When you say you've got 1.32, did you install the full 1.32 and then a little one to bring it up to 1.32c - or just the 1.32c patch? don't have the time or the files to hand to test it, maybe someone else could confirm if this error message could crop up in that situation.Īnother thing to try - uninstall/remove/delete whatever until q3 is totally gone from your system - then reinstall it from the cd and see if you can run the game before trying to install any patches. it'll leave behind a config (because the file was created after the installation) but everything else should be pretty much gone. If you uninstalled then it should've deleted the files, folders and registry entries for you.

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