MDK Setup Guide with RReady Rendition Verité
1Doing it with a store release is cumbersome, so keeping a copy of an Alpha release will help. The two share app paths and settings.
The settings are stored at HKCU\Software\NirvSolo\RReady.
In the video the error message that pops up is because MDK had already been removed from the other store based RLauncher (not shown). The Alpha release would've picked it up if it had been relaunched. The entire step of removing the already added app is unecessary for a fresh install.
0) Install MDKRed either from a retail disc or Steam. In the video a Steam based installation is used.
A)For the store release:
1) Click [HELP]
2) Navigate to the link for RRedline version of MDK (MDKRed.exe).
3) You may get a browser warning about unsafe downloads, open the downloads page in your browser and hit download anyway. If this is problematic I recommend getting hold of a CD based copy MDK with the MDKRed.exe. Steam users who have already paid for the game might not want to do that. If you already have MDKRed.exe from somewhere (or a CD based installation) go to step 4.
3a) open a command prompt (Click Start-Run--type Command should bring up command prompt, select it and hit [ENTER]
4b) Copy the full path of the downloaded zip file (Win11, right click copy path. On Win 10, select the file, bring up the ribbon menu and click the copy path button).
3b) type
certuilt -hashfile [paste the path here] md5
3c) If the MD5 does not match the MD5 checksum listed in the help file, do not unzip the file. Please contact NirvSolo at support@nirvtek.com
3d) if the checksum matches go to step 4.
4) Open RLauncher, navigate to the Windows Apps tab and click "Add App"
4a) Browse the folder structure to your MDK installation and click any of the MDK exes (MDK3DFX, MDKD3D or MDKRed).
4b) Once you've done this, MDKRed.exe should show up in the list, probably at the bottom.
5) Click "Rendition Settings" and configure upscaling resolution and other settings.
You're done.
B) For the Alpha, you still need an installed copy of MDK:
1) Click "Add App" and navigate to the MDK isntallation.
1a) Select any MDK executable in the folder (MDK3DFX.exe, MDKD3D or MDKRed).
1b) If MDKRed.exe isn't present in the folder, RLauncher will prompt you to download the file either automatically or manually (supplying a link). I think this step's rather self-explanatory
2) MDKRed.exe should show up at the bottom of the click.
3) Click "Rendition Settings" and configure upscaling resolution and other settings.
The setup for Quake2 and Hexen II is the same but note this:
A) To turn Hexen II into vHexen II:
1a) A CD based install of software rendered Hexen II (h2.exe) is required. GL Hexen will not work. The steam version of glHexen will work however (you can point RLauncher to glh2.exe).
1b) The RRedline specific version of Hexen is called vh2.exe. If you have a copy of this already present in teh installation folder, you will NOT need to download the binary by following the link from the help file or automatically with the alpha release.
2) RReady support for vHexen II is missing one feature, golems changing colour during beam/particle attacks. This is a bug with the game when more than 14 MB of VRAM is present (RReady RRedline is 128 MB).
2a)You can correct for this by clicking on VH2.exe in RLauncher and then "Browse."
2b) A folder view of the game folder should appear. Open rendition.cfg in notepad or any text editor and add the line maxvram=14 to the end of the file and save it. If this is going into your steam installation folder there may be admin rights issues.
2c) The golems will change colour but framerates will not exactly be spectacular.
B) To turn Quake 2 into vQuake 2:
1) The file to download is ref_v1k.zip containing ref_v1k.dll.
1a) The original version of this file (supplied by Rendition/Id Software) cannot launch in fullscreen. If you have this file and would like to use it in [quake installation]/baseq2/config/cfg set vid_fullscreen "0" and in RLauncher set forced full screen mode (under Rendition settings). You will not be able to toggle fullscreen, the app will crash.
2) The download link is provided in the help file. WIth the Alpha release it can automatically download ref_v1k. If you already have this file in the folder none of thi is necessary.
3) Click "Add App" and browse to Quake2.exe.
4)If you're suing the Remaster of Quake2, after doing all this launch QUake2.exe from Rlauncher.
5) The remaster will run. Close the game and switch to Steam. Set Quake 2 to always ask which version of the game to run (always prompt).
6) Run the game from Steam. The Rendition version of the game should run.
7) Every time RReady is updated, you'll have to repeast steps 4-6. Once you've done this you can run it from Steam.
Autoexe.cfg for Q2:
set v1k_antialias "7"
set v1k_drawflat "0"
set v1k_mipscale "0"
set v1k_mode "7"
set v1k_nopageflip "0"
set v1k_refreshrate "60"
set v1k_surfacelookup "0"
set v1k_waterwarp "1"
(For H2 it's r_ not v1k_)
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