I am getting a littled peed off with this Q4 game.  I've managed to get to the Data Processing bit, must be quite some way through it by now.  At the end of one section is a lift that when you click on takes to the loading screen, the loading bar gets half way and I am thrown back to the Q4 menu.

Having previously searched for this problem some people have suggested updating display drivers so today I updated to the Catalyst 5.11 for my Shappire x800XL 256mb card.  My full system is a Shuttle SN25p, AMD64 3200 venice, x800XL, 2gig PC3200 ram and a samsung sata harddrive.  All the chipset and onboard sound drivers are up to date.  Also running windows XP SP2 fully updated.

I am at a loss and I am considering sending this game back, can anyone help please?

Back to UT04 and BF2 for now - at least they work!

Anyone?

Please

Quote (knowley @ Nov. 14 2005, 11:58 am)

Please

UT04 seems to be a good idea. To mee as well. Q4 is not what i hope it is.. too much bugs.. doesnt feel "quake" enough.

Well, I've had an email from Activision UK Support in reply to an email I sent them.
Their suggestions are umm the standard drivel you'd expect - reinstall, update drivers etc even though I'd told them I'd done that.  

One suggestion was:

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You could try deleting the Q4Config.cfg file from the game folder. The default location is C:\Program Files\Raven\Quake4.

Not sure what Quake 4 they are talking about but my default install goes to C:\Program Files\id Software\Quake 4\
The config file is called Quake4Config.cfg and is actually installed in the q4base folder.  LOL!

They have an office in my county (UK) so I could always pop round and ask for my money back

They could have first called it Raven/Quake IV, but in the end decided on ID...

They're useless!
I am still being told to disable half of windows and update my álready updated drivers.

Activision Support either can't help me, or have given up trying... they said and I quote:

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Thank you for getting back to us. We are sorry to hear that the problem persists.  Regarding a refund,  this have to be pursued via the retailer.  We have not got access to funds.

Does this mean anything to anyone?

Code Sample

------------ Processing events -------------- --------------------------------------------- SpawnPlayer: 0 idPlayer::SetInstance() - Setting instance for '' to 0 idPlayer::SetClipModel() - Called on 0 'knowley' forceSpectatorBBox = 0 spectate = 0 instance = 0 local instance = 0 WARNING: Unknown weapon 'weapon_blaster' -- idRenderModelManagerLocal::EndLevelLoad --  117 models purged from previous level,   644 models kept. --------------------------------------------- ----- idImageManagerLocal::EndLevelLoad ----- WARNING: Invalid folder for map 'default_global_startoff' WARNING: Couldn't load image: default_global_startoff  542 purged from previous 1056 kept from previous  241 new loaded all images loaded in   0.6 seconds    0 deferred loading --------------------------------------------- -------- idSoundCache::EndLevelLoad --------- 0.26 seconds to expand oggs 41632k referenced 36598k purged --------------------------------------------- sound: found efxs/default.efx Loaded reverb file 'maps/game/storage2.reverb' ------------ Game Map Shutdown -------------- --------------------------------------------- ******************** ERROR: Could not find weapon definition 'null' ******************** WARNING: idSession: triggering mainmenu watchdog ------------ Game Map Shutdown -------------- --------------------------------------------- --------------- BSE Shutdown ---------------- --------------------------------------------- Shutting down sound hardware idRenderSystem::Shutdown() Shutting down OpenGL subsystem ...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success ...deleting GL context: success ...releasing DC: success ...destroying window ...resetting display ...restoring hardware gamma: success ...shutting down QGL ...unloading OpenGL DLL --------------- Game Shutdown --------------- rvStatAllocator:  dump of usage stats 32 total bytes handed out in 2 requests begin game:      1;  end game:        0 player hit:      0;  player kill:     0 player death:    0; damage dealt:    0;  damage taken:    0 stat team:       0 flag capture:    0; flag drop:       0;  flag return:     0 ------------ Game Map Shutdown -------------- --------------------------------------------- Shutdown event system done with .map file maps/game/storage2.map ---------------------------------------------

I would advice you to cut & paste your "savegames" folder to your desktop and uninstall Quake 4 & then reinstall. Then just put the savegames back in q4base. This might help & if it doesnt you still have your save games.

Also, before you uninstall.. goto settings>system & use auto detect settings. Then goto audio setup and make sure the audio is set to "default" & disable any EAX or other sound enhancing option.
Quit out of Quake 4 and restart it & try & see if you can load that map.

You also might want to remove any mods you might of installed in the q4base folder.

If it's a no go, just cut & paste "savegames" folder to desktop and uninstall>reinstall.

note: Sometimes when you uninstall games the game folder will still be there, so goto the directory and delete Quake 4 if's its still there before you reinstall.

Good Luck.