![]() I thought that with my PCI Express video card I might be able to run at a higher resolution, so I changed to 800×600 windowed play. The default game settings are for full-screen mode at 640×480 resolution. On my system, once you get past the opening ads, it takes about a minute to start a new game or to reload a saved game-in-progress. The next time I started the game, I had sound. That was as easy as getting to the Quake 4 console - by typing Ctrl-Alt-~ instead of simply ~ as you do in Quake 3 - and entering set s_driver oss. The solution it suggests for people having problems when using the ALSA sound system is to use OSS instead. For the answer to this problem, I turned to the Doom 3 FAQ, since Quake 4 is built on the Doom 3 engine, and the FAQ said it would not repeat suggestions/problems outlined there. Afterward, I could start the game as a normal user. I fixed the problem by going into /usr/local/games/quake4/q4base as root and entering chmod 755 *.pk4. On those three, only root had any permissions at all user and group were not even allowed read permission. I noticed while copying files off the CDs that the permissions are different on the first CD than they are on the others. But in my case, I found had a couple of issues to resolve before proceeding.įirst, I found that I could run Quake4 only as root. If all goes well, it takes only a couple of seconds to finish the install from that point. ![]() Make sure the paths and options are as you want them, then click on Begin Install. At this point, you’ll see the installer window. The Punkbuster license agreement is next, you can agree or not as you like, but if you don’t agree, you won’t be able to play on a lot of Quake 4 servers. You’ll have to agree to the Quake 4 license agreement to continue. Then, still as root, change to that directory and enter: Depending on what the mount point is for your CD - /cdrom works on mine - the following command should do it.Ĭp /cdrom/Setup/Data/q4base/*.pk4 /usr/local/games/quake4/q4baseĪfter you’ve copied all the files, copy the installer to /usr/local/games/quake4. You’ll need to insert each of the four CDs and - as root - copy the needed files to your hard drive. Due to issues with Breezy and the Audigy 2, I am using the 5.1 channel AC97 2.3-compliant sound card on the mainboard.īefore you copy the needed files from the retail CDs prior to running the installer, create the directories needed for Quake 4 by executing the following command as root:Įach of the four CDs contains a directory named /Setup/Data/q4base. It has a PNY Verto G-Force 6600 with 256MB of memory sitting in a PCI Express slot and an SB Live! Audigy 2 sound card. I installed Quake 4 on my homebrew AMD64 Sempron 3000+ CPU with 512MB memory, sitting on an MSI K8N mainboard, running Ubuntu Breezy. You can’t turn around and ignore the ads, as that same window is where eventually you see a “Click here to begin download” message. I eventually had success at 3Ddownloads, which puts in a queue and shows ads as you wait your turn. At some sites, you can get a free download after clicking past a seemingly endless number of pages designed to do nothing but ring up their ad sales, and then find the free download is throttled all the way down and allows only two simultaneous free downloads - but they will gladly sell you a download. Of course, there are other sites to get it from. Every time I tried I got a “421 Too many users – please try again later” response. I found it impossible to download from id Software. Getting the Linux installer was a little frustrating. You must be running version 2.2.4 or later glibc, and a kernel version of at least the 2.4 level is recommended. Hardware requirements include a 2GHz or better processor with 512MB of memory, an ATI Radeon or Nvidia GeForce video card, and a sound card supported by OSS or ALSA. ![]() You’ll also need to download the Linux installer - quake4-linux-.12.x86.run - from id Software or a mirror site. The product FAQ explains that in addition to the CD key contained in the retail package - required to play the game - you’ll need to copy a bunch of files from the CDs as part of the installation process. But that’s not enough to let you play Quake 4 on Linux. The box contained 4 CDs, a game guide, and a license key. As soon as I read the news on Slashdot that id Software‘s just released Quake 4 was already available as both a Linux client and game server, I ran out and dropped $50 for the game.
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