Setting up Quake 4 in 5 minutes
Install Q4 and Download MOD files
1/ Purchase and Install Quake 4 on Steam
2/ Download our Quake 4 Launcher
- Windows application
- Automatically sync every file you need to play
- Desktop server browser
- Gets your game ready to play in few seconds
3/ Ready to play!
The launcher contains:
- Server Browser
- Easy Q4 configurator
- Links to essentials resources
- ...and way more to come!
Quake 4 graphic configurations
Q4 is highly customizable and can look as you please!
Default Quake 4
Few adjustments
Pleasant graphics visuals
Dynamic lights and shadows
Removed only excessive FX (smoke trails & such)
exec graph1.cfg
Optimized Quake 4
Many adjustments
Optimized graphics visuals without Dynamic lights
Removed every excessive FX (smoke trails, shadows)
Simplifyied texturing
exec graph2.cfg
Lego Quake 4
Zero visual FX and basic graphics
Removed every texturing and FX
Maximal visibility
Minimal visual fatigue
Not streaming friendly! :-)
exec graph3.cfg
Choose your HUD
- Quake 4 Launcher offers various basics and user-made HUD you can choose from
- Use those sample files to make your own personal HUD!
A few basic adjustement are still to be made in Q4 menu (crosshair, enemycolor, etc.)
Quake 4 commands list
Client variables
- cg_logXMLStats - Enables / disables client-side logging of game statistics to a .xml file.
- cg_noChatBeep - Enables / disables the beep on chatting.
- cg_enemyModel - Specifies the model to be used for opposition players.
- cg_teamModel - Specifies the model to be used for teammates.
- cg_enemyColor - Specifies the color to skin opposition players.
- cg_teamColor - Specifies the color to skin teammates.
- cg_weaponFovEffect - Enables/disables automatic adjustment of the weapon model depending upon the g_fov setting.
- cg_blood - When enabled, shows bloodstains, spurts, etc on players.
- cg_gibs - explode corpses into itty bitty pieces, when enabled.
- cg_deadbody - dead body filter
- cg_smoke_RL - show rocket trail smoke.
- cg_smoke_GL - show grenade trail smoke.
- cg_smoke_NAP - show napalm trail smoke.
- cg_projectilelights - Show dynamic lights on rockets.
- cg_poweruplights - Show dynamic lights on powerups.
- cg_muzzleflashlights - Show dynamic lights on gun muzzle flashes.
- cg_damageDraw - Red blob that appears when you take damage.
- cg_zoomGraphics - Controls the zoomed mg/rg graphics.
- cg_railstyle - Alternate rail trail styles.
- cg_ambientEffects - enable a number of world particle effects
- cg_usehitscantint - Specifies rail color usage
- cg_teamhitscantint - Team rail color
- cg_enemyhitscantint - Enemy team rail color
- cg_thinshaft - Alternate lightning gun beam styles.
- cg_drawcrosshairnames - Enables displaying player names under the crosshair.
- cg_teamchatsonly - When set to 1, only show team chat messages in team games.
- cg_notvchat - Allow spectator chat on Q4TV.
- cg_unsmoothclients - controls how the position of other players is predicted.
- g_crosshaircustom - Selects the first crosshair
- g_crosshairsize - Selects the first crosshair's size
- g_crosshaircustom2 - Selects the second crosshair
- g_crosshairsize2 - Selects the second crosshair's size
- g_crosshaircolor2 - Selects the second crosshair's color
- g_crosshairblink - Toggles crosshair blinking
- hud_FPS - A better implementation of com_showFPS.
- hud_style - Specifies which client HUD to use.
- hud_lagometerPosition - position of the net_clientLagOMeter on the HUD.
- hud_timer - timer style.
- hud_showspeed - Show the speed meter.
- hud_showSpecTimers - Show the spectator item timers.
- hud_selfOnTeamOverlay - Toggle your own information showing in the team overlay.
- hud_multipovstyle - Multipov window layout style.
- hud_multipovMinHud - Toggles the display of a full hud in the main pov.
- hud_textQuality - Superhud text quality.
- hud_useTeamColors - Apply team/enemy colors to guis and huds.
- r_vertexlight - Enables Vertex Lighting mode.
- r_ambientscale - Changes the world brightness when r_vertexlight is on.
- r_archivedLightDetailLevel - Archived light detail level.
- r_viewsizepercent - Percentage of the screen that the 3D view takes up.
- s_ambient - Enables / disables world sound effects.
- ui_nick - Short nick for teamplay.
- ui_handicap - Lowers the health of the player to this value, and adjusts damage done by the player.
- ui_autoAction - Allows demos and screenshots to be automatically created.
- ui_showgun - Toggle inview gun model display mode.
- ui_autoswitch - Set weapon switching behavior.
- fs_xslTemplate - The XSL template with which to associate the XML statistics logs.
- demo_aviscreenshotJPEG - Sets whether to use tga or jpeg when doing avinetdemo screenshots.
- demo_aviDemoName - Name of the demo being screenshotted.
- demo_aviscreenshots - Toggles capturing screenshots during netdemo playback.
- demo_captureStats - Log XML stats on demo playback.
Server variables
- ref_password - Specifies the password that referees must use to log in.
- si_autoAction - Forces ui_action for all clients.
- si_mode - Sets the game mode - eg, FFA, TDM, CA etc.
- vote_allow_* - Allows the server operator to specify what options are voteable - see the page about votes.
- sv_logXMLStats - Enables / disables server-side logging of game statistics to a .xml
- sv_timeoutMaxLength - The maximum duration of a timeout.
- sv_maxTimeouts - The maximum number of timeouts per player / team.
- fs_xslTemplate - The XSL template with which to associate the XML statistics logs.
- g_feedscorebot - Enables the scorebot feed.
- g_allowMultipov - Enables/disables the 'multipov' command for clients.
- g_allowLockteam - Enables/disables the 'lockteam' command for clients.
- g_teamAutoJoin - When set to 0, players are set to spectate when they first join the server in team games.
- g_motd - Message of the day showed on the clients when they first connect to a server.
- g_notvchat - Allow spectator chat on Q4TV.
- g_allowSpecTimers - Allow spectators to see timers for item pickups.
Client CVAR details
cg_logXMLStats
- Summary
- Enables / disables client side logging of game statistics to a .xml file.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.72 and upwards
- Description
- When set to 1, at the end of every game a dump of the game statistics is created in XML format. This can be viewed in your web-browser, however it is intended for processing by external tools. The files are created grouped by year, month, day, and then named by the game time.
- This is a client cvar - see sv_logXMLStats for its server-side equivalent.
cg_noChatBeep
- Summary
- Enables / disables the beep on chatting.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- When set to 1 this turns off the sound played whenever someone uses the "say" command to chat.
cg_enemyModel
- Summary
- Specifies the model to be used for opposition players.
- Type
- String
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- If set to the name of a model, this will be used to display all opposition players. The model name is exactly the same as would be used in the standard "model" cvar - eg "model_player_marine_cortez" for the Cortez model.
cg_teamModel
- Summary
- Specifies the model to be used for teammates.
- Type
- String
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- If set to the name of a model, this will be used to display all players on the same team as you. As with cg_enemymodel, the value is exactly the same as the standard "model" cvar - eg "model_player_marine_cortez" for the Cortez model.
cg_enemyColor
- Summary
- Specifies the color to skin opposition players.
- Type
- 3 integer values
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- This sets the color that enemy player skins will be set to. The color is specified as 3 numbers in the range 0 to 255, representing the Red Green and Blue components of the color. eg, "255 0 0" is bright red, and "0 0 255" is bright blue, and "255 255 0" is bright yellow. If set to blank, this will disable enemy skin colors.
cg_teamColor
- Summary
- Specifies the color to skin teammates.
- Type
- 3 integer values
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- This sets the color that teammates skins will be set to. The color is specified as 3 numbers in the range 0 to 255, representing the Red Green and Blue components of the color. eg, "255 0 0" is bright red, and "0 0 255" is bright blue, and "255 255 0" is bright yellow. If set to blank, this will disable team skin colors.
cg_weaponFovEffect
- Summary
- Enables/disables automatic adjustment of the weapon model depending upon the g_fov setting.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- When setting FOV to a value higher than 90 the gun model is distorted. To counteract this, the model can be pulled back to make it less obtrusive - this is what happens if this cvar is set to 1. Setting this to 0 returns this to default Quake 4 behavior.
cg_blood
- Summary
- When enabled, shows bloodstains, spurts, etc on players.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.71 and upwards
- Description
- This cvar controls whether blood effects should be drawn or not. Setting this variable, combined with cg_gibs turns off all significant gore effects.
cg_gibs
- Summary
- Explodes corpses into itty bitty pieces, when enabled.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.71 and upwards
- Description
- This cvar controls whether gibs should be displayed or not. Setting this variable, combined with cg_blood turns off all significant gore effects.
cg_deadbody
- Summary
- Filters out dead bodies.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.73 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, dead bodies will be shown - if it is set to 0, they will not be drawn.
- A setting of 2 will show the dead bodies - darkened.
cg_smoke_RL
- Summary
- Show rocket trail smoke.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.71 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, rocket trail smoke will be shown - if it is set to 0, it will not be drawn.
cg_smoke_GL
- Summary
- Show grenade trail smoke.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.71 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, trail smoke on the grenade launcher will be shown - if it is set to 0, it will not be drawn.
cg_smoke_NAP
- Summary
- Show napalm trail smoke.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.76 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, trail smoke on the napalm gun will be shown - if it is set to 0, it will not be drawn.
cg_projectilelights
- Summary
- Show dynamic lights on rockets.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, rockets will have dynamic lights attached to them.
- These lights do not show up if you use r_forceambient.
cg_poweruplights
- Summary
- Show dynamic lights on powerups.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, powerups will have dynamic lights attached to them.
- These lights do not show up if you use r_forceambient.
cg_muzzleflashlights
- Summary
- Show dynamic lights on gun muzzle flashes.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- When this cvar is set to 1, gun muzzle flashes will have dynamic lights attached to them.
- These lights do not show up if you use r_forceambient.
cg_damageDraw
- Summary
- Red blob that appears when you take damage.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.80 and upwards
- Description
cg_zoomGraphics
- Summary
- Controls the zoomed mg/rg graphics.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.80 and upwards
- Description
cg_railstyle
- Summary
- Alternate rail trail styles.
- Type
- integer
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.75 and upwards
- Description
- Allows different rail trail styles.
- 0 - No spiral, slightly thinner core
- 1 - Standard rail trail
- 2 - Spiral trail only
- 3 - SP Gladiator rail trail. Has a slight extra tint.
cg_thinshaft
- Summary
- Alternate lightning gun beam styles.
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.76 and upwards
- Description
- 0 - Standard LG beam.
- 1 - Thin LG beam.
- 2 - Thinner LG beam.
cg_drawcrosshairnames
- Summary
- Enables displaying player names under the crosshair.
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.76 and upwards
- Description
- 0 - no crosshair names
- 1 - draw crosshair names
- 2 - draw crosshair names, teammates use ui_nick.
cg_teamchatsonly
- Summary
- Toggle showing team chat messages in team games.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- This bool allows you to select whether you want to only see your team's chat messages or not. All chat is visible by default. If used in non-team gamemodes, you will not see any chat.
cg_notvchat
- Summary;
- Allow spectator chat on Q4TV.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- Allows Q4TV viewers to disable TV chat. (needs to be allowed server-side with g_notvchat).
cg_unsmoothclients
- Summary
- This cvar controls how the position of other players is predicted.
- Type
- int
- Default value
- 2
- Q4Max versions
- 0.82 and upwards
- Description
- Value 0 is equivalent to pre 0.82 behaviour, and gives the least accurate representation of the players position, but they move smoothly. Value 2 (default) gives the most accurate position, but can be a bit "warpy" when players dodge if you have a high ping. However, using a value of 2, players may find they are able to play at much higher pings than they previously thought acceptable - the extra warping does not become a big issue until over 100ms ping.
g_crosshaircustom
- Summary
- Selects the first crosshair
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- We have slightly changed the behaviour of this variable.
- 0 - no custom crosshair, use default per-weapon settings
- 1 to 22 - access to individual crosshairs.
- Before, you would switch crosshairs by having g_crosshaircustom 1 and specifying the path to a crosshair image in g_crosshaircustomfile. Now, the latter is irrelevant : you can simply select a crosshair by using a different value of g_crosshaircustom.
Using a value of 0 will stick to Quake 4's default per-weapon crosshair assignments and disable the second crosshair layer.
- 1 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_gauntlet.tga
- 2 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_machinegun.tga
- 3 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_shotgun.tga
- 4 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_blaster.tga
- 5 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_grenadelauncher.tga
- 6 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_nailgun.tga
- 7 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_rocketlauncher.tga
- 8 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_railgun.tga
- 9 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_lightninggun.tga
- 10 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_grenadelauncher.tga (That's what the dmg uses)
- 11 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_napalm.tga
- 12 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_1.tga
- 13 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_2.tga
- 14 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_3.tga
- 15 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_4.tga
- 16 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_5.tga
- 17 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_6.tga
- 18 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_7.tga
- 19 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_8.tga
- 20 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_9.tga
- 21 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_q3_10.tga
- 22 gfx/guis/crosshairs/crosshair_cross.tga
g_crosshairsize
- Summary
- Selects the first crosshair's size
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- The range of crosshair sizes is free between 4 and 100 now.
g_crosshaircustom2
- Summary
- Selects the second crosshair
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- This allows you to have a second crosshair on top of the original. It is independant of the first crosshair, its attributes (number, size, color) are set in other variables which behave like those you already know.
- 0 - no second crosshair layer.
- 1 to 22 - access to individual crosshairs.
g_crosshairsize2
- Summary
- Selects the second crosshair's size
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- Second crosshair layer control. Has similar functionality than g_crosshairsize.
g_crosshaircolor2
- Summary
- Selects the second crosshair's color
- Type
- floats
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- Pick the second crosshair layer's color in the same fashion as g_crosshaircolor.
g_crosshairblink
- Summary
- Toggles crosshair blinking
- Type
- boolean
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- Enables or disable the crosshairs blinking red when the enemy is hit.
hud_FPS
- Summary
- A better implementation of com_showFPS.
- Type
- boolean
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.72 and upwards
- Description
- com_showFPS calculates the FPS count 60 times a second. This isnt a very good way to measure how many frames you get per second since its assuming all frames are the same, which they are not. When using this variable it will display the number of frames actually rendered in a second - ie, a true representation of your FPS.
Note that at the default tickrate, Q4 appears to lock the framerate to 62.5fps, not the 60fps that is often quoted. Therefore, when you have a rock solid framerate it will alternate between 62 and 63 each second. Likewise, when the tickrate is 90, it'll alternate between 91 and 90 in a regular fashion, because that will be 90.9090 fps. (see also this quip on Framerates)
hud_style
- Summary
- Specifies which client HUD to use
- Type
- String
- Default value
- cpmhud1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.5 and upwards
- Description
- Chooses which file to use as the main player HUD. The file hud/hud_style.cfg will be used.
- It is possible to make your own HUD, see hud/cpmhud1.cfg for an example, and the documentation on the SuperHud for the syntax.
hud_lagometerPosition
- Summary
- Position of the net_clientLagOMeter on the HUD.
- Type
- 2 integer values (X Y)
- Default value
- 10 380
- Q4Max versions
- 0.71 and upwards
- Description
- This cvar controls the position of the graph displayed when setting the cvar net_clientLagOMeter. The value is the coordinates of the top left of the graph, relative to the top-left of the screen. The bottom right of the screen is considered 640 480.
hud_timer
- Summary
- Timer style.
- Type
- integer
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.75 and upwards
- Description
- Changing this will make the timer count up (-1), or down (1, standard Q4 behaviour). Alternatively you can turn it off altogether by setting this to 0.
hud_showspeed
- Summary
- Show the speed meter.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- Draws a speed meter on your hud, allowing you to fine tune your movement skills.
hud_multipovstyle
- Summary
- Multipov window layout style.
- Type
- integer
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- Selects the layout style used when viewing with the multipov command.
- Values from 0 to 4.
hud_multipovMinHud
- Summary
- Toggles the display of a full hud in the main pov.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.80 and upwards
- Description
- When enabled, the primary view in multipov mode will have a scaled hud instead of name/health/armor.
hud_textQuality
- Summary
- Superhud text quality.
- Type
- float
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.81 and upwards
- Description
- Like Quake 4, the superhud swaps between three font sizes depending on the text scale. At some resolutions, some textscales might be rendered with a font size that's not detailed enough.
- This variable allows you to control the point at which the superhud will switch between font sizes to correct this effect if needed.
hud_useTeamColors
- Summary
- Apply team/enemy colors to guis and huds.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.81 and upwards
- Description
- When enabled, your cg_team/enemycolors will be applied to hud elements using the color T/E property, as well as the scoreboard. Otherwise, these elements will use the fixed marine/strogg colors.
r_vertexlight
- Summary
- Enables Vertex Lighting mode.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- When set to 1 this enables the vertex lighting mode, and when set to 0 behaves the same as normal Quake 4. Vertex Lighting mode disables all dynamic lighting, and ensures that the entire level is lit. This gives a significant speed boost over the standard lighting. Note that this works with all maps.
r_ambientscale
- Summary
- Changes the world brightness when r_vertexlight is on.
- Type
- float
- Default value
- 0.25
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- Sets vertexlight brightness - equivalent to r_forceambient brightness, but can go higher than 1. This does not affect dynamic lights, i.e powerup carrier lights and rockets.
r_archivedLightDetailLevel
- Summary
- Archived light detail level.
- Type
- integer
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- Archived light detail level. allows you to save a light LOD, which is applied when you join a game. This is a replacement for r_lightdetaillevel, which can't be archived properly.
r_viewSizePercent
- Summary
- Percentage of the screen that the 3D view takes up.
- Type
- integer
- Default value
- 100
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- Percentage of the screen that the 3D view takes up. See also the 'viewSizeUp/viewSizeDown'commands.
s_ambient
- Summary
- Enables / disables world sound effects.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- When set to 1 this turns off world sound effects - ie ambient background noise.
- Changes take effect after a reconnect.
ui_nick
- Summary
- Short nick for teamplay.
- Type
- string, length of 5 characters
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- Set a short name to use for team chat/overlay. Limited to 5 visible characters, but allows colours and icons.
ui_handicap
- Summary
- Lowers the health of the player to this value, and adjusts damage done by the player.
- Type
- integer
- Default value
- 100
- Q4Max versions
- 0.76 and upwards
- Description
- When you lower this, your health will tickdown to that value. The damage you give is scaled accordingly.
ui_autoAction
- Summary
- Allows demos and screenshots to be automatically created.
- Type
- String
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- Setting this variable allows you to automatically record demos, take screenshots, or both. When this string contains "demo" it will automatically record a demo, which will be created with the names of the players and a timestamp. If the string contains "ss" it will take a screenshot at the end of the match. The string may be "demo ss" to both record a demo and take a screenshot.
ui_showgun
- Summary
- Toggle inview gun model display mode.
- Type
- integer
- Q4Max versions
- 0.74 and upwards
- Description
- We have added the option 2 to this stock variable. It displays the inview gun model, but removes the bobbing and swaying - the gun stays still then.
ui_autoswitch
- Summary
- Set weapon switching behaviour.
- Type
- bitmask
- Q4Max versions
- 0.75 and upwards
- Description
- ui_autoswitch used to enable automatic weapon switches - it now also allows switching to weapons that have no ammo. This variable now being a bitmask, you can combine the two possibilities if needed.
- 0 - manual switches
- 1 - autoswitch on pickup
- 2 - switch to empty weapons
demo_aviscreenshotJPEG
- Summary
- Sets whether to use tga or jpeg when doing avinetdemo screenshots.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
See the Videomaking page for more usage info.
demo_aviDemoName
- Summary
- Name of the demo being screenshotted.
- Type
- string
- Default
- Unknown
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- This is automatically set by the avinetdemo command. When manually dumping screenshots with demo_aviscreenshots, you may want to override the default of "Unknown" to save screenshots in q4max/screenshots/avidemo/<whatever>
See also the Videomaking page for more usage info.
demo_aviscreenshots
- Summary
- Toggles capturing screenshots during netdemo playback.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- This is automatically set by the avinetdemo command.
You can also use it to manually screenshot parts of a netdemo, or to interrupt an aviNetdemo in progress.
See also the Videomaking page for more usage info.
demo_captureStats
- Summary
- Log XML stats on demo playback.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78b and upwards
- Description
- When set to 1, will create XML logs of any demos that are played. Note however that the demo needs to capture the end of the game - so any game where the players callvote'd a map change before the end of the game wont generate any stats.
- The timestamp used as the filename will be the time you played the demo, not when the match was actually played.
Server CVAR details
ref_password
- Summary
- Specifies the password that referees must use to log in.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- This specifies the password that clients must supply when using the "referee" command to become a referee.
si_autoAction
- Summary
- Forces ui_action for all clients.
- Type
- string
- Default value
- None
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- This variable is similar to ui_autoAction, but is a server variable, which if set will trigger all clients to perform the auto action. The value may be any combination of "demo", "servermvd" and "ss".
si_mode
- Summary
- Sets the game mode - eg, FFA, TDM, CA etc.
- Type
- String
- Default value
- FFA
- Q4Max versions
- 0.7 and upwards
- Description
- This variable specifies the game mode that is currently being played. A game mode sets a number of settings to "standard" values with a single setting. There are a number of standard modes provided: DM, TDM, FFA, CTF, ACTF, CA, CTFS and Duel, as well as custom modes such as ATDM. Each of these will set a number of other cvars (eg fraglimit, timelimit, si_gametype etc). Both the current mode, and the settings controlled within the mode can be voted via the callvote command.
- For more information, see the page on Modes.
sv_logXMLStats
- Summary
- Enables / disables server-side logging of game statistics to a .xml file.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.72 and upwards
- Description
- When set to 1, at the end of every game a dump of the game statistics is created in XML format. This can be viewed in your web-browser, however it is intended for processing by external tools. The files are created grouped by year, month, day, and then named by the game time. This is a server cvar - see cg_logXMLStats for a client-side version of this cvar.
fs_xslTemplate
- Summary
- The XSL template with which to associate the XML statistics logs.
- Type
- string
- Default value
- "../../../basic/styl.xsl"
- Q4Max versions
- 0.73 and upwards
- Description
- The XML statistics logs (both server and clientside) can be displayed in a web-browser using XSL templates. This cvar controls the path and name of the file that will be written to all XSL files. This cvar is intended to allow server operators to use a different stylesheet / directory structure if they chose. Note that the MAXStats stylesheet and PHP scripts assume the default structure, so it is strongly recommended that this is not changed unnecessarily.
sv_timeoutMaxLength
- Summary
- The maximum duration of a timeout.
- Type
- int
- Default value
- 60
- Q4Max versions
- 0.73 and upwards
- Description
- When a player uses the timeout command it has a maximum period of time to prevent abuse. This cvar controls how long a period is allowed.
sv_maxTimeouts
- Summary
- The maximum number of timeouts per player / team.
- Type
- int
- Default value
- 5
- Q4Max versions
- 0.73 and upwards
- Description
- When a player uses the timeout command it has a maximum number of timeouts per match to prevent abuse. This cvar controls how long a period is allowed. Setting this cvar to 0 effectively disables player timeouts.
g_feedscorebot
- Summary
- Enables the scorebot feed.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.70 and upwards
- Description
- Setting this cvar to 1 enables the scorebot feed. When this is active, a number of serverinfo variables are set on the server which can be read by scorebots and serverbrowsers to display the scores of the currently running game.
g_allowMultipov
- Summary
- Enables/disables the 'multipov' command for clients.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- By default, clients are allowed to use multipov, however this may be a bit too heavy for some servers. This setting allows server admins to change this if they have stability issues with multipov.
g_allowLockteam
- Summary
- Enables/disables the 'lockteam' command for clients.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 1
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- By default, clients are allowed to use lockteam. Switch this off if desired.
g_teamAutoJoin
- Summary
- Force clients to spec on first joining if 0, or allow automatic join if 1.
- Type
- bool
- Default value
- 0
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- When set to 0, players are set to spectate when they first join the server in team games. Ingame players remain ingame on map changes.
g_motd
- Summary
- Message of the day showed on the clients when they first connect to a server.
- Type
- string
- Default value
- empty
- Q4Max versions
- 0.77 and upwards
- Description
- When filled, this string will go to all clients on their first connection to the server. The info will be displayed on the center of the screen for a few seconds.
g_notvchat
- Summary
- Allow spectator chat on Q4TV.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78 and upwards
- Description
- Allows Q4TV repeater admins to disable TV chat. Set to 1 if you need to moderate chat on your TV repeater.
g_allowSpecTimers
- Summary
- Allow spectators to see timers for item pickups.
- Type
- bool
- Q4Max versions
- 0.78d and upwards
- Description
- Allows server admins to enable item timers for spectators.
