How to transfer your configs to Steam Quake

How to use your configs from the Quake Live standalone client with the Quake Live on Steam

Finding your old configs

On the drive Windows is installed on, browse to Users\<your user folder>\AppData\LocalLow\id Software\quakelive\home\baseq3 for Windows 7/8, or for XP users go Documents and Settings\<your user folder>\AppDataLocalLow\id Software\quakelive\home\baseq3 - you may have to enable showing "Hidden files and folders" from Folder Options in the control panel.

The files you'll want to copy are all the files ending in ".cfg", qzconfig.cfg, repconfig.cfg will contain your old settings if you didn't make any custom .cfg files yourself and any settings not specified in custom configs if you made them, so make sure to copy these two along with your custom .cfg files.

Moving them to your Quake Live on Steam

Once you've found the files, simply copy and paste them to your Steam\steamapps\common\Quake Live\<your steamID64>\baseq3

Your steamID64 folder is the one that's lots of numbers, if multiple people use Steam to play Quake on your PC you can check which folder is yours at a site like http://steamidfinder.com or http://steamrep.com/ by inputting your profile URL.


If there is no folder with your steamID64 as the name, make sure you've run Quake Live: Steam Edition while logged in to your Steam account as it isn't created on installation.

[Suicizer]

Not every command is directly transferred to the Steam version of Quake Live from the old stand-alone version of Quake Live.
This might give some trouble in some cases.

Also, be very sure to have set Steam Cloud OFF
It seriously fucks up any modifications to configurations as it keeps calling up that one instead the config on your PC.

[uNoT!brucelee]

autoexec.cfg and place it where your config file is. QL will load this config at first. Use in this config your controls, binds and settings and all will be fine.

[AoS | ChetBiffington]

the above worked fine, although not sure how to enable autoexec config by default

[Shpongle]

Thanks dude.

[aol_]

quakelive has gone downhill into a blackhole -.-

[bailey]

Helpful Ty

[Nickolaus]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=315621902

There clearly is a configuration file, if you take a look at the above link.

[MindFury]

Screw this, there is no cfg, it doesnt work now, it open the stand alone launcher. what a waste of time, Now i jhave to find a another game to play that isn't gheyd up with base rapers, snpier whores, and other cd type players, the game was pure fps, a refreshing break from all the new fps garbage thats out. Thanks for screweing that up!!! god fobid a 10 year game is funner than this garbage they are releasing now..

[ITEMS]

Is ok

[homer]

I found it before right before I saw your reply, I was searching for it on my external drive, but then I found it on the C drive. Thanks anyway !