Quake 4

Jim · External Since: Oct 27, 2006 Posts: 10

I can't get Quake 4 to work with any Vista build. When it errors out,
Microsoft claims that Activision has a patch. I go to Activision, id
Software and the Quake 4 site. But no stinking patch. Anyone have any
ideas?

Jim

KEN · External Since: Sep 27, 2006 Posts: 17

The patch for Quake 4, is the 1.3 patch. You can get patch from
www.gamershell.com. And you also need drivers for you graphics card, make
sure you get correct drivers for the correct build of VISTA you are using.

"Jim" wrote:

> I can't get Quake 4 to work with any Vista build. When it errors out,
> Microsoft claims that Activision has a patch. I go to Activision, id
> Software and the Quake 4 site. But no stinking patch. Anyone have any
> ideas?
>
> Jim
>

Jim · External Since: Oct 27, 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks, I already have that patch. I doesn't seem to work, but I'll try
again.

"KEN" <KEN DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BA89AF3D-B065-4506-B142-040D2FDDAA7B@microsoft.com...
> The patch for Quake 4, is the 1.3 patch. You can get patch from
> www.gamershell.com. And you also need drivers for you graphics card, make
> sure you get correct drivers for the correct build of VISTA you are
> using.
>
> "Jim" wrote:
>
>> I can't get Quake 4 to work with any Vista build. When it errors out,
>> Microsoft claims that Activision has a patch. I go to Activision, id
>> Software and the Quake 4 site. But no stinking patch. Anyone have any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Jim
>>

KEN · External Since: Sep 27, 2006 Posts: 17

Jim, in order for Quake 4 to work in VISTA, you also need to have the
correct video card drivers for your video card, the VISTA drivers that come
with VISTA is not enough. I have Quake 4 and updated to 1.3, with 1.3 patch
working, both Single and multiplayer in VISTA RC2(5744)_X86. My grahics card
is the EVGA 7900GTX, and using the RC2 VISTA drivers provided by NVIDIA.
NVIDIA has drivers for both VISTA RC1 and RC2. If your Graphics Card is ATI,
then you need to goto ATI, For VISTA RC1, RC2 video card drivers. I hope this
helps .

"Jim" wrote:

> Thanks, I already have that patch. I doesn't seem to work, but I'll try
> again.
>
> "KEN" <KEN.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BA89AF3D-B065-4506-B142-040D2FDDAA7B@microsoft.com...
> > The patch for Quake 4, is the 1.3 patch. You can get patch from
> > www.gamershell.com. And you also need drivers for you graphics card, make
> > sure you get correct drivers for the correct build of VISTA you are
> > using.
> >
> > "Jim" wrote:
> >
> >> I can't get Quake 4 to work with any Vista build. When it errors out,
> >> Microsoft claims that Activision has a patch. I go to Activision, id
> >> Software and the Quake 4 site. But no stinking patch. Anyone have any
> >> ideas?
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>

Jim · External Since: Oct 27, 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks, I'm still trying to get everything to work. But I appreciate the
feedback.

"KEN" <KEN RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0742BE59-4F25-4DC1-B653-A1E62D021C54@microsoft.com...
> Jim, in order for Quake 4 to work in VISTA, you also need to have the
> correct video card drivers for your video card, the VISTA drivers that
> come
> with VISTA is not enough. I have Quake 4 and updated to 1.3, with 1.3
> patch
> working, both Single and multiplayer in VISTA RC2(5744)_X86. My grahics
> card
> is the EVGA 7900GTX, and using the RC2 VISTA drivers provided by NVIDIA.
> NVIDIA has drivers for both VISTA RC1 and RC2. If your Graphics Card is
> ATI,
> then you need to goto ATI, For VISTA RC1, RC2 video card drivers. I hope
> this
> helps .
>
> "Jim" wrote:
>
>> Thanks, I already have that patch. I doesn't seem to work, but I'll try
>> again.
>>
>> "KEN" <KEN RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BA89AF3D-B065-4506-B142-040D2FDDAA7B@microsoft.com...
>> > The patch for Quake 4, is the 1.3 patch. You can get patch from
>> > www.gamershell.com. And you also need drivers for you graphics card,
>> > make
>> > sure you get correct drivers for the correct build of VISTA you are
>> > using.
>> >
>> > "Jim" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can't get Quake 4 to work with any Vista build. When it errors out,
>> >> Microsoft claims that Activision has a patch. I go to Activision, id
>> >> Software and the Quake 4 site. But no stinking patch. Anyone have
>> >> any
>> >> ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Jim
>> >>

walk2k · External Since: Oct 10, 2006 Posts: 15

Not much to say other than I copied my Quake 4 installation direction from XP
drive over to Vista (RC2, x64) drive and ran it - works great. Looks and
runs perfectly.

I'm using Nvidia 7800GT with the latest Nvidia RC2 drivers.

"Jim" wrote:

> Thanks, I'm still trying to get everything to work. But I appreciate the
> feedback.
>
> "KEN" <KEN.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0742BE59-4F25-4DC1-B653-A1E62D021C54@microsoft.com...
> > Jim, in order for Quake 4 to work in VISTA, you also need to have the
> > correct video card drivers for your video card, the VISTA drivers that
> > come
> > with VISTA is not enough. I have Quake 4 and updated to 1.3, with 1.3
> > patch
> > working, both Single and multiplayer in VISTA RC2(5744)_X86. My grahics
> > card
> > is the EVGA 7900GTX, and using the RC2 VISTA drivers provided by NVIDIA.
> > NVIDIA has drivers for both VISTA RC1 and RC2. If your Graphics Card is
> > ATI,
> > then you need to goto ATI, For VISTA RC1, RC2 video card drivers. I hope
> > this
> > helps .
> >
> > "Jim" wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, I already have that patch. I doesn't seem to work, but I'll try
> >> again.
> >>
> >> "KEN" <KEN.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:BA89AF3D-B065-4506-B142-040D2FDDAA7B@microsoft.com...
> >> > The patch for Quake 4, is the 1.3 patch. You can get patch from
> >> > www.gamershell.com. And you also need drivers for you graphics card,
> >> > make
> >> > sure you get correct drivers for the correct build of VISTA you are
> >> > using.
> >> >
> >> > "Jim" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I can't get Quake 4 to work with any Vista build. When it errors out,
> >> >> Microsoft claims that Activision has a patch. I go to Activision, id
> >> >> Software and the Quake 4 site. But no stinking patch. Anyone have
> >> >> any
> >> >> ideas?
> >> >>
> >> >> Jim
> >> >>

georgechemy · Joined: Jul 23, 2009 Posts: 2

I have been using Quake along with Mozilla Firefox on Windows XP platform. I have not yet tried it on Windows Vista. But you don't need to worry. I had once heard about it on plasma tv but I could not have concentrate onto it. I will try to find a patch for it and will send it to you. Thanks a lot.