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Missing default.cfg file causes game to crash #93
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This is a mechanism of Q3/OA engine that was surprising to me when I first came across it. You need the "baseoa/" directory in the same directory as "openarena.x86_64". That directory should be where the pak*.pk3 files are. I do not believe this is a bug since Ioquake3 acts in a similar way. |
I am running the binary in the same folder. |
Fixed it by running OpenArena with a different fs_homepath: /home/aaron/Games/openarena-0.8.8/openarena.x86_64 +set fs_homepath ~/.local/share/openarena |
Good that there's a workaround for that, but still sounds like a bug which should be looked into. |
@unrealapex Do you want to reopen the issue? |
That's probably a good idea. Setting the homepath to |
Issue
When I try to start OpenArena, I get the error "Couldn't load default.cfg". It appears this problem originates from the pak0.pk3 file in
baseoa/
.Steps to Reproduce
openarena.x86_64
):./openarena.x86_64
I have tried to create this file in various sub directories in
~/.openarena
that I thought OpenArena would read, but that did not work. I also tried downloading OpenArena but the official website and BitTorrent, but that did not change anything either.I am playing OpenArena 0.8.8 on Gentoo Linux.
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