Annoying Linux Quake4 problem

[Zorak]

Ok so here is the deal. After I built my new computer, i went out and bought a copy of Q4 so I could put my new video card to good use. The weird part though, is that when I try to play Q4 under Linux, it keeps asking me for the cd key. After I enter my cd key it will be fine for a few days or even a week, and then the next time i load Q4 it asks for the cd key yet again. This doesn't happen to me in windows and I think it is rather odd that something like this would keep happening in Linux. Other than that, the game plays wonderfully on my new card.

I tried googling for a problem similar to this, but I haven't seen anyone with this problem. Have you guys experienced this? Or can you tell me what you think the cause might be?

I have made the following observation. The cdkey you enter is stored as what appears to be a hashed value in a plaintext file called quake4key in ~/.quake4/q4base/ . I hope that may be of some help.

Thanks.

-Zorak

 

[nxcmp]

I'm not sure but just guessing here, its possible that where you key is being stored (file) is being overwritten or changes, i would figure out which one it is and make it read only, and again I'm not sure but I would do some searches about it.

 

[dobby]

i didnt know quake 4 could run on linux

 

[linux_0]

Doom and Quake have had native Linux versions for years

 

[surrealdeal]

WoW. maybe wine really really sucks at implementing the windows registry. I'm pretty sure there's a howto on tldp

 

[Zorak]

Notice that i said absolutely nothing about running Quake4 under WINE. Kindly take your trolling elsewhere; we are trying to get real work done here.

-Zorak

 

[surrealdeal]

your you, then you su. program copies what's in root's .config into your directory, (because original copy was root's due to faulty filedescriptor)?! I'll never mention it again.