{"id":323,"date":"2022-02-05T19:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T23:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/?page_id=323"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:59:19","slug":"open-arena-with-quake3e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/?page_id=323","title":{"rendered":"Open Arena with Quake3e?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"184\"><strong>For anyone wondering how to use the Quake3e binary to play OpenArena, here\u2019s how to do it on Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"207\">Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download Open arena 0.8.8 form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openarena.ws\/download.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Download latest Quake3e binaries <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ec-\/Quake3e\/releases\/tag\/latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Copy all the Quake3e binaries into your OpenArena folder.<\/li>\n<li>Create a shortcut for your preferred Quake3e binary \u2014 I highly recommend <code data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"480\">quake3e-vulkan.exe<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Right\u2011click the shortcut and select <strong data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"537\">Properties<\/strong>. In the <strong data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"556\">Target<\/strong> field, add: <code><strong>+set fs_basegame baseoa +set protocol 71-compat<\/strong><\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your command line should look similar to this:<\/p>\n<p><code><strong>C:\\Users\\YourName\\Desktop\\openarena-0.8.8\\quake3e-vulkan.x64.exe +set fs_basegame baseoa +set protocol 71-compat<\/strong><\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"808\" data-end=\"818\">Voil\u00e0!<\/strong> Now you can enjoy all the Quake3e features in OpenArena. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone wondering how to use the Quake3e binary to play OpenArena, here\u2019s how to do it on Windows Follow these steps: Download Open arena 0.8.8 form here. Download latest Quake3e binaries here. Copy all the Quake3e binaries into your OpenArena folder. Create a shortcut for your preferred Quake3e binary \u2014 I highly recommend quake3e-vulkan.exe. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/?page_id=323\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Arena with Quake3e?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-323","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artifexquake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}