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Muti Messiah
04-01-2010, 02:05 PM
Hello,

I Bought up the quake collection and have been enjoying this blast from the past, but both Quake 3 and Quake 3 Team Arena state my CD Keys are invalid, is this normal?

Ive blanked out my issued CD Keys

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s71/SymbianFreak/q3-20100401-165812.png

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s71/SymbianFreak/q3-20100401-171603.png
MenaceInc
04-01-2010, 02:34 PM
Hello,

I Bought up the quake collection and have been enjoying this blast from the past, but both Quake 3 and Quake 3 Team Arena state my CD Keys are invalid, is this normal?

Ive blanked out my issued CD Keys

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s71/SymbianFreak/q3-20100401-165812.png

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s71/SymbianFreak/q3-20100401-171603.png


You need to retype your CD key but with lower case. It's a known bug. Also it will keep coming up with the same screen when you disconnect from a server. Again, it's a known bug.
Muti Messiah
04-01-2010, 02:38 PM
ah kk

thanks for that menaceinc...

oh your the guy that put together the quake 1 and 2 patches right?

if so nice job :)
Knights
04-02-2010, 08:09 AM
Wow that's weird, I got that pop up too but I just ignored it and continued to play.. It happens rarely but I don't think you really have to put anything in it, they might of disabled the whole key system for steam.
MenaceInc
04-02-2010, 08:11 AM
Wow that's weird, I got that pop up too but I just ignored it and continued to play.. It happens rarely but I don't think you really have to put anything in it, they might of disabled the whole key system for steam.

Nope, they didn't xD
If you look in the baseq3 folder, there's a plaintext file with the name of q3key which contains your unique cd key. It's just an annoying bug. Same way that Team Arena defaults back to normal Arena when I leave a server. Should see if it's fixed in other engines I guess.