If you’re on macOS Tahoe (macOS 26) and don’t have sound in-game, you can work around this issue by bringing down the console in-game, with either the tilde key on your keyboard or Shift plus Escape at the same time, and turning off OpenAL support by using these commands:/s_useOpenAL 0/snd_restart We will fix this issue […]

Steam’s Autumn sale is going on now, which means everyone has Quake 3 discounted. In order to play Quake 3 and Team Arena you’ll need to buy a copy of the game to use with ioquake3. The source code for the game is free, but the game itself is not free. You can support ioquake3 […]

One of the discussions that has come up after our recent move to the mpdirectory server software has been players alerting us to false entries in the server browser for game servers that are duplicates of others or are inflating their player counts without using the built-in bots that actually can provide a gameplay feature. […]

Game servers report their ip address and other server details to our directory server in order for you to find them. Whenever you play a multiplayer game of Quake 3: Arena or any other game based on ioquake3, the game client running on your computer is connecting to our directory server in order to get […]

Here’s the quick summary: Thanks to Tim Angus, ioquake3 now supports CMake! If you want to compile from source for Windows, macOS, or Linux, and you’re already familiar with CMake you can try it out now. We will update our documentation as we can. If you just wanna play ioquake3 and not compile anything: You’re […]