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IOQUAKE3?

avatarsama · 10 Sep 2026 at 04:07 · permalink

What happened? I've been playing quake 3 on and off since launch and ioquake3 has been the default launcher for at least a decade.

I've just built another desktop pc (half life alyx) after a few years exclusive on chromebooks.

Now I find that as far as I could search if I want to reinstall q3 with the latest engine I need to build it from github using instructions on a wiki page that I need WayBackMachine to read because it's been down long enough that even google cache doesn't have it.

The good thing that came out of this is that I found iodefengine. It also needs to be compiled but it's something I didn't know existed and defrag is more what I'm into these days..

Is IoQuake3 abandoned or are they really taking all this long to resume posting builds on their website?

toodledoo · 10 Sep 2026 at 04:07 · permalink

https://ioquake3.org/get-it/

Keep away from the test builds for now, as the site says.

avatarsama · 10 Sep 2026 at 04:08 · permalink

that's what prompted this post. did you see how long ago that was?

toodledoo · 10 Sep 2026 at 04:08 · permalink

There is an installer at the link I posted. It seems only the test build server was compromised. As ever, run binaries at your risk.

File name is "ioquake3-1.36-3.1.x86.exe" for the windows version.

DevastatedAngel · 10 Sep 2026 at 04:08 · permalink

Check Q3e, started playing with it a few days ago and it seems superior.

avatarsama · 10 Sep 2026 at 04:09 · permalink

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