Minimizing Quake3

[old.bigdave]

Can Quake3 be minimized, so you could check mail, or answer a icq message, and sfuff like that? Or do i have to close Quake3?

 

[old.Maverick]

If you have a TNT based card you can make an alias which changes Q3 to a small window and back

set vid_win "r_mode 0; r_fullscreen 0; vid_restart; r_mode 4; r_fullscreen 1"

is what i use. The reason I set the modes back after vid_restart is so that if you exit Q3 while it's windowed then the next time you start it it'll be back to fullscreen.

// mav

 

[old.bigdave]

Thanks for the reply Mav, how do i setup that alias? i have a riva tnt card, and am new to q3.

 

[old.Maverick]

Here, this is from my cfg, put it in autoexec.cfg

// toggles between a window and fullscreen
set vid_full "r_fullscreen 1; r_mode 4; vid_restart; bind f12 vstr vid_win"
set vid_win "r_fullscreen 0; r_mode 0; vid_restart; wait; wait; wait;bind f12 vstr vid_full; r_fullscreen 1; r_mode 4"
bind f12 "vstr vid_win"

in fullscreen I run at 800x600 (r_mode 4) so you might want to change it to whatever you use. You can get a list by typing /modelist at the console

press f12 and it'll switch to a window, press f12 again and it'll turn back. Sorted.

// mav

 

[old.bigdave]

Thanks Mav, works good

 

[old.craigio]

Any thing for us voodoo 2 people, stuck with a full screen display.

This is a pain, cos i used to use crtl tab on q2, which was the most useful to see what was going on irc and icq

 

[old.craigio]

Also,
Would be useful for clan matches, typical way of just before a match starts, complete mayhem on the irc channel

 

[old.sjp]

ill second that,

but as far as i know, us V2 users are fu@ked

 

[old.craigio]

is there a software mode for q3?

 

[old.Chink]

Nope.