Quake 4

First, why Quake 4, and not the usual Quake IV

My copy arrived in the post this morning, and I have a good feeling this will show Doom 3 was a great game base, just a rubbish game (actually Quake 4 is developed by Raven).

Without having played it yet (just installing) it seems to take over from where Quake II left off (even has the same basic weapons!) which is great, and then adds a Quake III style multiplayer game, so it's probably time to say goodbye to a load of free time.

Pretty system intensive though I'll admit: P4 2 GHz or Athlon XP 2000, 512 Mb RAM and as we know from Doom 3 a huge power card.

I just can't help thinking how slow this game will play at 1920x1440 (you know who you are )

damn, my pc just scrapes the minimum specs then! :|


yea, single player is Q2, multi is Q3, though it looks rather limited imo, for MP anyway.

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yea... this is actually a game i mite play other than rfactor :P

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Gfx engine is the same with Doom3 from what ive heard. Just with better charachter faces (less plastic feel). Just hope the game is just a little more interesting than Doom3 gameplay-wise



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Glyn Wrote:
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> I just can't help thinking how slow this game will
> play at 1920x1440 (you know who you are )

:D

Don't have it, but let me know what it's like, and if positive, I'll post up a picture of an X800XT on fire.

I read it's just average, basically the same as Doom 3 except for more monsters and more shooting, no need to try to hide or something while fighting, as the monsters just stay in the same place shooting or attacking. I'd post the link, but it's in Portuguese :P

I am confused....obviously D3 was like singleplayer only (realisticaly) so I expected Q4 to be multiplayer, but its mainly Q2 esque if i understand it right.

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Quake 4 SP is Quake 2
Quake 4 MP is Quake 3

Thats what they said in a magazine. They said mp was pretty average. I doubt SP is much better.

what are the recommended specs for the game?

xp2000 / 2ghz p4
512 ram
and basically a 9600 pro

I think

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Baring in mind that recommended specs are usually the realistic minimum specs.

yup. I'm @#$%&, as that (except the 9600, ive a 9700 pro) is my exact PC. Ah well, I'm upgradingf soon anyway

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howdy - i got quake 4 yesterday - and my pc has the minium requirements

the only thing wrong is when i ran the program i get a

" CPU doesnt support the Intel Streaming SimD Extenstions (SSE) "

but my pc is a Athlon why would i want this....

can anyone help me with this error......

Or something like a cfg file that bypasses this thing so i can

play this brillant game.

Which athlon is it? It should have SSE. Try running windows update for a CPU driver (sounds weird, but they have them)

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err i did a windows update and no luck;
this is my athlon processor info;

Number of CPUs 1
Name AMD Athlon
Code name Thunderbird
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Family/Model/Stepping 642
Extended Family/Model 7/4
Package Socket A
Core Stepping A4
Technology 0.18µ
Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!
Clock Speed 1303.0 MHz
Clock multiplier x13.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 100.2 MHz
Bus Speed 200.5 MHz

If you can help please tell me

Ah ha. Old Athlon, one of the originals. No luck mate. Needs an SSE instruction set.

Your CPU isn't fast enough apparently anyway.

cheers for the info - i knew it was to good to be true.....

mind you i can still play doom3 and the expansion pack
on it and half life 2 runs perfectly.....

do you know if serious sam 2 will wrk on my pc....

if you so please do say....

I would expect it would, apparewntly it runs rather well on most PCs, while still looking good. But that SSE issue I dunno whether Serious Sam will like / dislike.

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If Doom3 works, I'm rather surprised Q4 doesn't tbh...