
Select Lighting: full to use preconfigured high quality lighting settings.Select Effects: high to use preconfigured high quality effect settings.Select apply and press esc to return to the options menu.Set New resolution to desktop resolution.Check basic video settings by selecting the Change Video Mode option in the Options menu, optimal settings:.Start DarkPlaces Quake engine by double clicking the darkplaces.exe file in the c:\games\quakedp folder.Start and configure the DarkPlaces Quake engine Copy or the save the downloaded file into the ID1 folder, in this example c:\games\quakedp\ID1\.Download the soundtrack (QUAKE_Music.pk3).

However, there is a pk3 archive available which contains the soundtrack, which allows you to play Quake with the DarkPlaces source port AND the original music.

If you want them, you'll have to extract them. The music of Quake on the original installation CD consists of CD audio tracks (starting with track 2), which are not copied to your hard disk when you install the game.


