newbie Quake 4 question re: walk/run speed

"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT.RemoveThis@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Barry Stevens" <stevens.b.RemoveThis@interspect.co.nz> wrote in message
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> > hi all,
> >
> > in quake4 , i'm just wondering if there is smart way to *keep* my
walk/run
> > speed figures once i configure them in the console to my liking?
> >
> > in doom 3 i used to have to input them manually at the re-start of every
> > level, but one day they magically seemed to be part of the start up
config
> > and from that time on, just *happened* all by themselves at every
> > re-start.
> > or was it just some good smoke?..
> >
> > seriously tho', any clues as to how to either do that, or how it might
> > have
> > happened by chance?
> >
> > cheers and tia.
> >
> >
> if you can enter the commands and paramaters from the console, then you
can
> also put them in an 'autoexec.cfg' and put that in the \Quake4\q4base\
> folder and it will run every time you start the game. You can also re-run
> that .cfg by dropping the console and type: exec autoexec
> HTH
> McG.

Perfect, thanks very much matey!!

Cheers.


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Yikes! spoke too soon.

For some reason, I cant seem to be able to get the autoexec to run
automatically, I can exec it fine out of the console but everytime I strat a
new game, its back to the same old slow walk.

What am i doing wrong?

TIA.
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"Barry Stevens" <stevens.b RemoveThis @interspect.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Yikes! spoke too soon.
>
> For some reason, I cant seem to be able to get the autoexec to run
> automatically, I can exec it fine out of the console but everytime I strat
> a
> new game, its back to the same old slow walk.
>
> What am i doing wrong?
>
> TIA.
>
>
Well, Quake4 is a New game, it may not look for any file other than
Quake4config.cfg which it may or may not overwrite each time it runs or
exits, whichever the dev chose. Mmm, you could put it in the command line
and it would exec on startup: add -exec autoexec.cfg to the cmd line.
McG.
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"Barry Stevens" <stevens.b.DeleteThis@interspect.co.nz> wrote in
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> For some reason, I cant seem to be able to get the autoexec to run
> automatically, I can exec it fine out of the console but everytime I
> strat a new game, its back to the same old slow walk.

Interesting. I'll have to strace the process on Linux to see what files it
looks at on startup.

What commands do you use to set the walk/run speed?
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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT.RemoveThis@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Barry Stevens" <stevens.b.RemoveThis@interspect.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:4366df28$0$28782$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > Yikes! spoke too soon.
> >
> > For some reason, I cant seem to be able to get the autoexec to run
> > automatically, I can exec it fine out of the console but everytime I
strat
> > a
> > new game, its back to the same old slow walk.
> >
> > What am i doing wrong?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >
> Well, Quake4 is a New game, it may not look for any file other than
> Quake4config.cfg which it may or may not overwrite each time it runs or
> exits, whichever the dev chose. Mmm, you could put it in the command line
> and it would exec on startup: add -exec autoexec.cfg to the cmd line.
> McG.

Thanks again man, will try that!
>
>
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"ScratchMonkey" <ScratchMonkey.blacklist.DeleteThis@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message
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> "Barry Stevens" <stevens.b.DeleteThis@interspect.co.nz> wrote in
> news:4366df28$0$28782$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au:
>
> > For some reason, I cant seem to be able to get the autoexec to run
> > automatically, I can exec it fine out of the console but everytime I
> > strat a new game, its back to the same old slow walk.
>
> Interesting. I'll have to strace the process on Linux to see what files it
> looks at on startup.
>
> What commands do you use to set the walk/run speed?

" pm_walkspeed 300 "( for fast speed)

I also had to add a line to invert the walk/run config : " in_alwaysRun 0"


Cheers and TIA!
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"McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT DeleteThis @NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Barry Stevens" <stevens.b DeleteThis @interspect.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:4366df28$0$28782$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > Yikes! spoke too soon.
> >
> > For some reason, I cant seem to be able to get the autoexec to run
> > automatically, I can exec it fine out of the console but everytime I
strat
> > a
> > new game, its back to the same old slow walk.
> >
> > What am i doing wrong?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >
> Well, Quake4 is a New game, it may not look for any file other than
> Quake4config.cfg which it may or may not overwrite each time it runs or
> exits, whichever the dev chose. Mmm, you could put it in the command line
> and it would exec on startup: add -exec autoexec.cfg to the cmd line.
> McG.

Nope, that dont werk either...;(
 >> Stay informed about: newbie Quake 4 question re: walk/run speed 

I was also having the following problems until I came up with a minor system trick.

Here it goes:
go to your quake 4 folder
make a random name .cfg file > example: loop1.cfg

inside loop1.cfg type in:
======================================
pm_walkspeed 300
or
pm_runspeed 600 (depending on which bind you are tweeking)

wait 35 (this will set the delay of when to exec the next .cfg, I believe this is in milliseconds)

exec loop2.cfg (execs the next .cfg file)
=======================================
save loop1.cfg
in your quake 4 folder again-
create "loop2.cfg"
copy everything from "loop1.cfg"

within loop2.cfg-
paste loop1.cfg

change "exec loop2.cfg" to "exec loop1.cfg"

save "loop2.cfg"

.

To start the speed trick-
Start game
Enter console (ctrl+alt+~)
Type in "exec loop1.cfg" and it will begin. Tweek the run/walk speeds by number in the .cfg files

"0" no speed
"900" street fighter 2 hyper

Great for servers since your clients don't have to download a thing.
Thats all to it!


The only thing is I don't know how to make the exec loops stop. I have to crtl+alt +delete just to get out of the program. Unless someone can add on a command on how to stop the damn loop lol!
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