Does this work on Windows 7 64bit ???

[Arminius]

Just curious, I have heard reports that it is not supported, then I heard somewhere that it is - who is right?

[EternalMagus]

If steam doesn't list a game as compatible with win 7 64 then I check on the windows compatiblitly center. This site gives a user votes as well as a [microsoft?] assessment of it's compatibility. It gets one user vote as compatible and one that says that it is not compatible. The "formal" or [microsoft?] assessment is that it is not compatible. Since only one user vote says that it is compatible with one vote against and a [microsoft?] assessment stating that it is not it looks like it is not universally compatible. Here is the link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/win7/CompatCenter/ProductViewerWithDefaultFilters?TempOsid=win7&Locale=en-us&TextSearch=Quake%2BIV&Type=Both&CurrentPage=0&TotalPages=1&ShowCriteria=0&SortCriteria=Relevance&Compatibility=Unknown&LastRequested=14

[May-Day]

It works, you'll have to do some work with the config file to get the textures to look half decent. Honestly I played this on my old rig when it came out with an AMD AthlonXP and 7800gt and it looked better then, lol. BUT, it's still fun as hell!

[Fred DM]

i played the retail edition on my W7x64 PC without any problems.

[Arminius]

Thanks EternalMagus, Jackalope-eater and Fred DM :)

[GasPoweredStick07]

I am running Windows 8 unfortunately, and I realized that there is a compatiblity issues with the game unable to load textures upon play. Anyone know of a patch that is supporting this game on Windows 8?

[May-Day]

No problem Arminius, did you ever get things straightened out? Oh, and DkiLLeR07 that windows 8 is a beast of a different color lol

[P3RC]

is windows vista compadible

[Noel]

Originally posted by DkiLLeR07:

I am running Windows 8 unfortunately, and I realized that there is a compatiblity issues with the game unable to load textures upon play. Anyone know of a patch that is supporting this game on Windows 8?

Browse the files and set the exe to Win7 compatibility mode. It works well for me.

[Arminius]

Originally posted by jackalope-eater:

No problem Arminius, did you ever get things straightened out? Oh, and DkiLLeR07 that windows 8 is a beast of a different color lol

I asked a friend who has the CD version of Quake 4 to loan me his copy to see if it can be installed and played .. should get it in a day or so, then will let you know :)

[76561198052399685]

I have bought the game yesterday via Steam and i have Windows 7 64Bit. it works without any problems.

[Elusive]

its not the operating system you should be warred about. its the graphics card. aprently quake cant take new cards. so it will look like crap without tweaking

[Smokey]

this game works on windows 7 home edition 64bit and on windows 7 ultimate 64bit
also with new Nvidia cards

(recommend Nvidia gtx 680 2gb ram if you thinking about buying a new one)
and still want be able to play the new games about 2 years ahead on the highest settings

[Arminius]

Update: Tried the CD-ROM version of Quake 4 and it does NOT work with my Windows 64bit Ultimate - it installs ok, but then crashes to the desktop every time I run the .exe file inspite of using compatibility mode ... well, it was worth a try I guess - it works on my Windows 7 32bit laptop, just not the ideal platform to play this on (size and position of the keys an all) :)

[Fraz]

Originally posted by Nahman:

Originally posted by DkiLLeR07:

I am running Windows 8 unfortunately, and I realized that there is a compatiblity issues with the game unable to load textures upon play. Anyone know of a patch that is supporting this game on Windows 8?

Browse the files and set the exe to Win7 compatibility mode. It works well for me.

Hi! I'm having issues with a few of my Quakecon pack games in Win8. I didn't realize you could set a compatibility mode like in previous versions of Windows. Can you explain a bit more about how to do this?

[tokinkosh65]

I had to disable antialiasing for it with my Geforce GTX 760 and I used these tweaks:

Modifying the quake config worked for me.
Open the q4base\Quake4Config.cfg and overwrite these values:

seta image_ignoreHighQuality "0"
seta image_cacheMegs "512"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_downSizeBump "0"
seta image_downSizeSpecular "0"

This will fix the textures.

Thanks to szahn for posting the tweaks.