How Can I Make A Quake 3 Server on My Box

[jzerk]

Can anyone help me out here, my friend wants me to host him one.

[Edge100x]

Do you have a managed or unmanaged configuration?

[jzerk]

unmanaged

[Edge100x]

You will need to first upload your (fully updated) Quake3 distribution to the server. If it's a Windows server, you can start a server straight from there, by opening a command prompt, changing to the directory of the files, and executing a command like this:

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quake3.exe +set fs_homepath c:\$itspath +set dedicated 2 +set net_ip $ip +set sv_maxclients $maxplayers +set com_hunkmegs 56 +exec server.cfg

Where $itspath is the path, $ip is the IP, $maxplayers is the number of players to execute, and server.cfg contains your desired server settings.

[jzerk]

If I don't have a copy of Quake 3, would you know somewhere online / instores where I can purchase or download one?

[Edge100x]

I don't know of a place offhand, but you may be able to find one. I know that the Quake3 code has been open-sourced, though I'm not sure about its other resources.

[Spifft]

quakelive.com pretty much houses whats left of Q3 players imho.

[.=QUACK=.Major.Pain]

Didn't realize there were so many type of Quake 3 games.
Looking a server install packages, there are like 10 versions.

[FAST]

there are ~ 4K players in quake 3 reguarly. Not bad for game a decade old.

Had lots of fun with it.