Quake in 2021 - The Best Way to Play, Install Mods, Music, Etc.

Quake is important. So, in this video we are going to look at the best ways to play quake 1, the mission packs, and I'll show you how to put the music back in... why the hell is the music missing anyway? We'll add in that NIN goodness. Beyond that, I show you how to install community content, mods, maps, etc.

TOC:
Intro junk: 00:00
John Romero's Recommendation: 01:40
The Best Source Port (Engine): 02:20
Get a Copy of Quake, the Music, & vkQuake: 03:35
Install vkQuake & the Music: 04:30
How to Play the Expansions: 09:30
Config File Editing: 10:35
Installing Community Mods & Maps: 16:09
Playing Arcane Dimensions: 19:25

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[Aletek]

Quake was an unreal experience back in 98. Playing over TCP IP in internet with your clan of pals, with beautiful accelerated 3d graphics through a Voodoo Graphics... That seriously rocked the gaming world. Heck, esports appeared with this game. Legendary stuff.

[uvunvy]

Same love for Quake II? It was a staple of our LAN parties.

[Hyde-Jahf]

Nice. Thanks. Been in my head a lot lately to go back and revisit the best time I had in gaming. Got my best job ever in part for creating a Linux server manager for Quake (got asked if I did any open source, turned out my interviewer used it on his server). I miss the pace of the older shooters. Doom Eternal freaked me out :)

[goetzdevokation]

THANK YOU!

First gen Clan player here, can't wait to load back up after 20 years

[James-dlkn]

Thanks for the video, didn't realise how much I missed the first quake game. Just finished my playthrough and loved being able to run it at high fps

[EngineNo]

9/10 review -1 point for doing Nine Inch Nails dirty like that😭 other than that, thanks so much!

[Athesies]

This vid got me to try the release version of quake with its default controls and honestly it's more fun and charming than I expected. Crazy to think there were probably loads of people who never played this with vertical mouse look

[TxoriCom]

09:39 no need for shortcuts, just open the console and type "game rogue", then new game in the menu ;)

[kylesgamesquest]

Curious about your thoughts on the official remaster. Would you still recommend vk over it?

[davidrou]

I played original Quake fully recently on dosemu in 640x480 and that's the second best way to play it.
The sharp pixels flying around, the roughness of the textures and original sound sampling, the stroboscopic animations and setting up the cycles so that you feel playing on a machine at the egde of its performance. It's how Quake should be experienced.

[khokansingha]

I am getting vulkan-1.dll missing error

Tried copying vulkan-1.dll in Syswow64 and system 32 but then another error shows up when using vkquake.exe

[MetalJody]

I agree, Quakespasm is definitely the way to play Quake, and this is coming from someone who got into Quake super late, like 2010 or so. This source port is the only one I've come across that runs like a dream. And with the Arcade Dimensions expansion, it's an absolute must play. DarkPlaces was cool for awhile, but the longer I played it, the less I was enjoying it, so I jumped ship.

[OleksiiTheAngry]

a great touch with the elbow + hair smash! instalike!

[Dark_guanchale]

Now we have a new official version of our beloved Quake. Hope to get soon all the great mods for this new version soon :)

[hammondOT]

Thanks for this, hopefully you see my question...I'm new to all of these new ports/engine things but vkquake runs great for me. But there is a "mods" menu in my options menu to play these, do I have a different version? Also, it seems like playing the hipnotic game doesn't have the remastered graphics? It seems to look better when running it through steam. Do I need to tell vkquake to run the remaster, kind of like how ironwail does?

Also, I installed vkquake in it's own directory instead of in the quake directory because I was nervous about overwriting files. Will that cause conflicts with other ports if I install them later or even with steam?

[lechuzaarg]

Thanks dude, now i can play the expansions! :D

[PresumedDead]

what's the plugin you use to for your voice at 3:40? been trying to figure that out in Audition for awhile.

[dupirechristophe]

What? You only had to push jump to "jump" into a level, it was a cycling thing and not a bug?
Oh god... I thought I installed it wrong or that the level files weren't in it or couldn't get load for some reason...
*sigh*
well, at least it works now thanks to you man x'D

[abadenoughdude]

I actually like Darkplaces for the visual changes it introduces. Played the og to death for decades and it's fun to see how the game evolves and what can be done with it on modern tech.

vkQuake is awesome though, you'd expect a 25 year old game to be fast when ported to modern hardware but this is super fast. I've found an appreciation for Vulkan, thought it's just another API but it actually has benefits (unless vkQ is just that well written lol).

[mmaldonadoofficial]

can you make a video like this for Quake II?