I didn't love Quake II. More precisely, I didn't love the style of Quake II. It had such a heavy
and slow feel about it. But, here I am, still in COVID-19 lockdown, and I've about finished playing
through Quake III Arena for the second time in a few weeks, so....
Even when using the Steam platform, Quake II refused to start. Not like the spotty success I have
with Quake III Arena — Quake II has NEVER started... until I found the Yamagi + Music patch.
Steam user Butane wrote an easy-to-follow tutorial on downloading and installing the patch,
noting: "This is a simple patch made for those who are having issues running Quake II on modern
hardware and just want a quick fix. It's merely a self extracting archive which adds the original
soundtrack music and a modern source port called Yamagi (version 7.42) to your Steam version of
Quake II ... the Yamagi[www.yamagi.org] port ... is very faithful to the original look and feel
of Quake II while adding support for higher widescreen resolutions and HUD scaling. It also has
a very active development."
The only additional guidance I can offer: (1) Virus scan the executable you download from Dropbox,
and (2) get your correct path to the Quake II files as follows: In Steam, right click on Quake II in
your games list and select "Properties...". On the form that opens, click on the LOCAL FILES tab,
click the BROWSE LOCAL FILES... button, and copy the path on the file explorer window that opens.
You'll need that path when you run the patch.
With the patch installed, I was able to open Quake II from Steam and start playing!
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