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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars cover
Developers
Splash Damage
id Software
Publishers
Activision
id Software
Engines
id Tech 4
Release dates
Windows September 28, 2007
Linux October 19, 2007
macOS (OS X) March 18, 2008
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Quake
Quake 1996
Quake II 1997
Quake III Arena 1999
Quake 4 2005
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars 2007
Quake Live 2010
Quake II RTX 2019
Quake Enhanced 2021
Quake Champions 2022
Quake II Enhanced 2023

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS on 1.0 version; later updates removed that limitation.[1][2]

General information

Official game site
Official forums
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Tweak Guide
LIFLG - Linux installer
Quake Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Quake game made.
Splash Damage Editing Wiki - The official modding wiki for the game.
Planet Quake - Very old hub for all Quake games. Has mods, guides, and news on the Quake communities.
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums - (Wayback Machine mirror)

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
No physical copy protection; online-play requires online account which asks license key.
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
Simple disk check, no physical copy protection; online-play requires online account which asks license key.
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

1.5 Game Update is the latest version.

SDK, etc.

All downloads available for the game can be found at the Splash Damage game downloads page.

Enable multithreading

Instructions

Mods

Multi-player

Game data

In-game basic general settings.
In-game basic general settings.
In-game advanced general settings.
In-game advanced general settings.
In-game HUD settings.
In-game HUD settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10000/pfx/[Note 1]
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/10000/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video/audio settings.
In-game general video/audio settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

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High frame rate

Instructions

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

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Audio settings

In-game voice settings.
In-game voice settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Spanish
French
Russian
Only available in Russian/Polish retail release.
Polish
Only available in Russian/Polish retail release.
Korean
Only available in Korean retail release.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
All new games need to be created externally.
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 3074, 27733, 33060-33070
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Custom maps crash the game on Windows 10

Custom maps require auto-restart which is prevented by Windows 10 since version 1703 (Creators Update).[3]

Issues fixed

Cannot use Alt+Tab while in-game

The game does not allow directly switching to desktop by Alt+Tab .
Instructions

Being kicked from server due to PunkBuster

EvenBalance has dropped support for Quake Wars.[4]
Instructions

Mods crash the game on Windows 10

Mods require auto-restart which is prevented by Windows 10 since version 1703 (Creators Update).
Instructions

Black terrain texture in custom maps

Vanilla game does not extract megatextures from custom maps.
Instructions

In-game console cannot be opened on Linux

Shortcut for console is Ctrl+Alt+~ unless com_allowConsole is set to 1 in ~/.etqwcl/base/etqwconfig.cfg.[5]
The game requires ~ (Tilde) key to open in-game console that might not possible with some non-US English keyboard layouts with dead keys.
Instructions

The game freezes while connecting to a server on Linux

Linux version of the game depends on out-of-dated version of glibc which causes crashes on modern distros.
Instructions

In-game VoIP does not work on Linux

Instructions

Mods and custom maps crash the game on Linux

The game has compatibility issues with non-western localizations on Linux.
Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 2.x
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer PunkBuster EvenBalance dropped PunkBuster support for ETQW. (see: Issues fixed)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium IV 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (XP)
Intel Pentium IV 3.0 GHz or equivalent (Vista)
System memory (RAM) 512 MB (XP)
768 MB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5.7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 5700
ATI Radeon 9700
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7300
ATI Radeon X1600
128 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Kernel 2.6.18 or higher
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz or higher
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
Supported ATI chipsets: Radeon 9700 or higher, Radeon X700 or higher, Radeon X1650 or higher
Supported Nvidia chipsets: GeForce FX series (5700 or higher, not including 5700LE and 5700VE), GeForce 6 series (6200 or higher), GeForce 7 series (7300 or higher), GeForce 8 series
The game does not support Intel integrated graphics chipsets

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/10000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (10000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References