Q2 Demo issue: ERROR: Couldn't Load Maps

STR3T · Post by **STR3T** » 19 Feb 2004, 07:12

Aw man, I found an old stash of Q2 CTF demos and then I googled for a viewer...found this and was stoked...til I got the error message.

Grrr. I should know what's wrong, but haven't played Quake in so long, I've forgotten all the cfg and folder issues which it had....

Post by **OomJan** » 19 Feb 2004, 19:24

What does the error message say?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 20 Feb 2004, 05:54

Oh crap, thought I posted it.

Just: ERROR: Couldn't load maps\"mapname".bsp
SHUTDOWNGAME

STR3T · Post by **STR3T** » 20 Feb 2004, 19:21

I noticed another person was having problems w/ running Q2 demo:

http://www.planetquake3.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60

Now, I no longer have Q2 "installed" on my PC. Just have historically saved/moved all the Q2 folders/files from hard drive to hard drive over the past few years.

He says Q3 demos work fine...my guess is he has Q3 installed today...maybe not Q2.

I wonder if the game needs to be loaded in order to run demos properly?

Q2 itself runs just fine off of the folders, w/ out installing the game on your PC.

Post by **OomJan** » 23 Feb 2004, 21:36

Try putting the ctf maps into the maps folder of baseq2. Someone told me that that helps.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 24 Feb 2004, 06:03

Good hint, not exactly right, but you got me looking in the right spot....somehow I had ended up w/ two baseq2 folders. Hehe!