I got my quake 4 yesterday and I try to install it with quake4 installer and follow the instruction on "zerowing" but I always stuck on the "initiliazing menu" it takes forever.....I dont know why?
so please anyone help me to solve this problem....
p.s : I use ATI driver 8.16.20

thanx in advance

I'm no expert but here's a few suggestions. It could be simply the fact you are using an ATI card. They don't have the best driver support but I'm sure you've heard all the arguments before so I'll just skip it. Your CPU is nothing startling and neither is your video card. Quake4 is a pretty heavy game, much more so than Doom 3 even though they share graphics engine. I can play Quake 4 smoothly on my system but loading times are a bitch and that's on double the RAM and with a significantly quicker video card (same memory).

Try running the game from a terminal and posting any errors that might turn up, or even just anything that gets dumped before the lockup. We might be able to pick something from that, otherwise you can try emailing it to the guy who wrote the port. He says he'll accept bug reports although he doesn't promise they'll receive time to be fixed.

I had the same problem until i realized that 3 of the 4 Retail CDs were set to root access only (400).
Go to your q4base directory and ensure that all the files are world readable!
chmod a=r * or chmod 404 * or something like that..

I start Quake (Demo) and It loads fine, except for the graphics are vertically mis-aligned (large blackspace at the bottom of my screen, what should be at the middle of the screen is about 1/3 from the top) and I also have some lines at the top of my screen. Also, my Audio is techno-remix-gone-horribly-wrong.

This is All Just in the Quake 4 Demo and Doom 3 Demo from id.




I've got an Nvidia 6800, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 512MB Dual-Channel RAM, SuSe 10.0 32-bit

could this be the dark side of linux?

I have quake 4 right now for windows, are you saying with WINE i can play window games on SuSE? Sorry i'm new to the linux deal.

I doubt it... Why Would DirectX (a Microsoft Product) work with Linux (A competitor of Microsoft)?

You can, however, follow the instructions at http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/ and hope that everything works.

OK, I too am running Q4 on Open Suse 10, and having similar problems asa you Simdude.

the sound issue is pretty easy to fix actually -- get in the game and pull down the console and type set s_driver oss. If your sound resembles really bad german techno - then you're having the same issue i was having until I set up that option.

My graphics, though, are doing almost what your are - but mine are shifted to the right by about 1/4 of my screen.

I tried running it in windowed mode, and it runs just fine, but being as I've been playing Quake since old DOS-Quake (1), I just can't get used to playing an FPS that isn't full-screen.

If anyone knows how to fix this issue, please post it here for me (us)

I know this thread is a month old but I had the same problem and it turned out I was using the vesa driver for my lcd monitor I switched to the proview driver and all looks great now.I am having problems with the sound though in quake4 I have tried the set s_driver oss and I get no sound at all. And the german techno on alsa can anyone help out?

Is your internet connection working?

If Quake is ran without a running internet connection it hangs on the INITIALIZING MENUS screen.

At least it did for me.