Quake 4
 

I've installed the DVD version with original serial, everything installed fine. however when I run the game, it throws up a grey window then reports that it's caused an error and gives you the option to send a detailed report to MS, I ok this and it goes back to the Desktop.

Any ideas.

I'm running Windows XP Corp
ATI Radeon 8500 Series Graphics card
512 MB Ram
1.8 CPU

Would like to get it up and running, if not it's been a waste of money buying it

Thanks in advance for any help on the subject :)

THIS IS NOT A SUPPORT FORUM, contact the publishers.

Orion....granted Luciel was a little on edge in his reply, he is right. The publishers help out alot more than we could....Just thank god you aren't dealing with EA...LOL....I dealt with them over a Battlefield 2 CD Key problem...that resulted in me swallowing my pride and taking the game back to the retailer and getting a different copy.....And Luciel....Granted I am new here and have little to no room say anything to you, you might want to lay back just a bit...I mean in the forum, it doesn't explicitly say "Don't Ask For Help On Games", I am sure that Orion thought that it may have been a common problem and somebody here may have ran into it, and was simply asking for help, granted he could have put it in the General gaming forum........it's still hardly reason to snap at him...

Why do people who buy games never read the damn box to see minimum requirements..


Minimum System Requirements:

- English version of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
- Pentium(r) 4 2.0 GHz or Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ processor
- 512MB RAM
- 4x Speed DVD-ROM drive and latest drivers
- 2.8GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows swap file)
- 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
- 100% Windows 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
- DirectX 9.0c (included)
- 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX(r) 9.0c compatible 64MB
Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers.
- ATI(r) Radeon(r) 9700 series
- ATI Radeon 9800 series
- ATI Radeon X300 series
- ATI Radeon X550 series
- ATI Radeon X600 series
- ATI Radeon X700 series
- ATI Radeon X800 series
- ATI Radeon X850 series
- Nvidia(r) GeForce(TM) 3/Ti series
- Nvidia GeForce 4/Ti series
- Nvidia GeForce FX series
- Nvidia GeForce 6 series
- Nvidia GeForce 7 series

In other words... Your graphics card & cpu arent up to the job :p

@jlg6184: This is the PC Game BACKUP Forum, it clearly says this on the Forum title, no support issues should be posted here! If you pick a fight with Luciel, I know who will win :D

Hehehehe :D

I know that this is the backup part of the forum, hence my reference to the general gaming forums. and picking a fight isn't something I really want to do, I just think Luciel is was kinda hard on Orion....

Not really though, he is staff and I think hes a bit fed up with people who cant read simple instructions, Backup doesnt mean support, so people just waltz in and think, ok ill post in this section.

help
 

Hi orion2.


Just curious as to what error message comes up?

I've recently fixed quake4 exe to run perfectly fine on win98 on gf4. with regards to the specs to play this game, i'm suprised that they put gf3 there but not ati-8500 considering, its much faster then gf3, and also supports pixel shader 1.4, and runs bf2 just fine. obviously at lower details.

Peace

an 8500 supports Pixel Shading 1.4?

As dabhand well said, i'm fedup of people that can't read, specially the ones that don't read the specs on the box before they buy...

Most humble applogies.

Maybe I was too anxious to get it working and seeing as yous probably have more experience than the retailers then this was my port of call.

Again sorry for the inconvenience :(

Nah dont worry about it mate, sorry i was bit stressed at the time. but yeah, for your own good, read the tags in the box, saves you from having to return it to the shop ;)