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Hi,

New to the forums here, but I'm having quite a time trying to get ET to work on my 12" Powerbook G4 1ghz, 1.25 gig RAM running OS X v10.4.6. It seems that every installer I've downloaded has been corrupted, or the install process is being corrupted in some way. But, after every time I try to install a new version I get the same errors. First it says "Wolfenstein could no continue", "Couldn't load default.cfg - I am missing essential files - verify your installation?" That message turns out to be correct, there is no default.cfg file installed to the etmain folder every time. So, I open a textedit doc, and change the extension to .cfg leaving the doc blank and put it in the etmain folder.

That solves the first problem, and now a new problem crops up when I run the program again, this time it loads to an orange screen, and backs out to finder in a lower resolution with the message "Wolfenstein cannot continue", "Recursive error 'menu file not found: ui/menus.txt, using default' after: menu file not found: ui/menus.txt, using default" and the program closes once I click "ok." And once again, I find there is no subfolder 'ui' in etmain. So I create that folder and add to it another blank textedit doc named menus and rename the extension to .txt.

Another run of the game starts with the same orange screen, and briefly flicks out to the finder, then starts back up with the id, splashdamage videos, etc. Once the videos finish I'm presented once again with an orange screen with a horribly corrupted menu.

I've been trying different things for hours. The best result I got was from unpacking every .pk3 file to the etmain directory, which gives me the real default.cfg, a ui folder, map folder, etc. This allows me to see the menus, still with the orange background, but the buttons are now visible. However, when I load the server list and attempt to enter a game I'm given an error message "Error", "Could not open an official pak file - verify your installation and check for updates".

Some other points of interest are the loader at the beginning, it always says "0 files in pk3 files" when I know for certain every one of the .pk3 files in the etmain folder contain data.

I'm spent on ideas. I've tried all of these steps with several different versions of the wolfet2.60-2.dmg file from various sites including the official site to no avail.

Any assistance provided would be greatly appreciated. If any more information is needed I'll see what I can do to provide it, though it really does seem hopeless.

Could it be that I'm not properly uninstalling the game each time? I've just been trashing the Wolf ET folder in applications and library/application support after each failed attempt with each copy of the .dmg.  I'm new to the mac world as well, so this could be the wrong way to go about things.

~totallywired