Welcome to ioquake3’s documentation!¶

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Command line options¶

-v, --version¶

If this is the only option passed to ioquake3 it will print its version, including whether it’s a dedicated server or client binary and the build date.

Example:

ioq3 1.36_GIT_7ae49cc-2013-11-02 client (Nov  3 2013)

+set <cvar> <value>¶: Allows to set a cvar, which will override its value from the default config files. This is also the only way to set cvars with the CVAR_INIT flag as a user.

cvars¶

vm_game¶

flags:	`CVAR_ARCHIVE`
default:	`2`
type:	enum (`vmInterpret_t`)

Determines how the game module is loaded.

Possible values:

0 aka VMI_NATIVE: Try to load a native shared library, but fall back to QVM file if not found.
1 aka VMI_BYTECODE: Load a QVM file and interpret it.

Note

This is also the fallback for architectures that do not have a QVM compiler implementation.
2 aka VMI_COMPILED: Load a QVM file and compile it to native machine instructions.

Glossary¶

cvar: Configuration variable. Can be set by the game itself or by the user via command line options (+set), editing configuration files or using in-game commands.