Quake 4 - First Impressions

Dimples · Post by **Dimples** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:40 pm

My brother is sending me a copy of Q4 and fear...I love little sister discount. Will have to get a new mb and processor......new video card wouldnt hurt. Gee so um a new pc basically

From what I hear people are having problems playing even with minimum requirements with Q4

I went by BestBuy and looked for a copy of Quake 4, they said pre-order people got theirs. But they wont sell retail games until tomorrow!

Good thing you didn't do the preorder. Everyone I know that did it basically paid $10 for the t-shirt (which was 1 size only) and most the Best Buys were saying Q4 hadn't even been shipped to arrive on the release date.

Serpent are you gonna play Q4 with me when I'm all set?

Here's a nice link to check the min/max for lots o games and if you can run it
http://www.srtest.com/referrer/srtest

Post by **Serpent** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:47 pm

I'm good to go to play whenever......and it came out when it was supposed to... and I like the collector's edition b/c of not only the shirt - but also the expansion packs for quake 2 (even though it came w/ q2, too.. but i already had that)... since i didnt have them yet... they are all new q2 single and multi player maps for me.

....and q4 plays good for me. hehe

Post by **Neophyte** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:38 pm

How's the expansion pack? Any good? Worth the price, or should I just get the standard edition?

Post by **Neophyte** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:52 pm

Dimples wrote:
Good thing you didn't do the preorder. Everyone I know that did it basically paid $10 for the t-shirt (which was 1 size only) and most the Best Buys were saying Q4 hadn't even been shipped to arrive on the release date.

Serpent are you gonna play Q4 with me when I'm all set?

Here's a nice link to check the min/max for lots o games and if you can run it
http://www.srtest.com/referrer/srtest

Nice link.

My system:
Intel Pentium 4, 2.8 Ghz, 800 Mhz FSB, 1MB Cache
Intel i865 PERL Motherboard
XFX Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB AGP 8X
Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro Video Capture
SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro 64MB
1 Gig Corsair ValueRAM
Maxtor 80 Gig SATA Primary
Western Digital 160 Gig PATA Secondary
Sony DL DVD 16x +-RW / 48x CD+-RW
Antec TruePower 380W Power
Antec Sonata Case
19" Mag CRT
Dell 2.1 speakers (5 finger discount)
Bose TriPort Headphones

Post by **KrAzYdAvE** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:17 pm

Love those speakers Neo! lol

Since we're posting specs!

My current rig:
P4 3.4Eghz 800mhz FSB 1mb Cache
Abit IC7-G motherboard
PNY Geforce 6800 GT 256mb AGP 8x
1gb Kingston ValueRAM
2x140gb Hitachi 7k250 7200rpm SATA HDD's in RAID 0 - Primary
2x160gb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SATA HDDs in RAID 1 - Secondary
LiteOn DVD-ROM
LiteOn DVD+\-RW 16X Dual Layer
Antec 400W PSU
Cheaper (and older) Antec case w\mods (Window, cold cathode, paintjob etc)
21" Sony Trinitron CRT monitor - Primary
19" Sony Trinitron CRT monitor - Secondary
Cheap Labtec speakers
Plantronics Headset

Post by **D.A.R.K.[CotC]** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:19 pm

UGH, my computer failed the CPU speed, RAM size, and video card test for recomended Battlefield 2 playing, and I failed the CPU for minimum requirments too

AND DANG, I compeletly bombed the Quake 4 test!!!!

Still though, taking out that 128 MB RAM chip and putting in a 512 chip really made a difference... I still need a new computer.

Is there anything my computer won't fail???

Post by **Serpent** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:37 am

Neophyte wrote:How's the expansion pack? Any good? Worth the price, or should I just get the standard edition?

I'm a huge q2 fan, b/c of the graphics... especially compared to q1 - even though I'll never get over the awesome grappling hook of q1.

... so I love the expansion packs for q2 (the reckoning and ground zero).. especially since they both offer variants to the famed dm map 'The Edge'... among others.. and a lot more coop maps.. which I like.. since you can't play coop in q3 or q4...

... so personally, I'd say my buy was well worth it... but .. to each his own.. hehe

Post by **Serpent** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:40 am

Funny thing that sysreqlab site ....

FAIL: Sorry, your video card does not meet this minimum requirement. Upgrade to a more powerful video card will make all your applications look better. Click the 'We Recommend' button to see some great options.

FAIL: Sorry, your computer does not have enough Free Disk Space to meet this minimum requirement. Maybe it's time to buy another hard drive. Click 'We Recommend' to get all the disk space you need.

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minimum requirement for video cards is ati radeon 9700+...but I have a 9600... talk about picky! LOL!... game runs great though. hehehe... and I only have a couple gb free right now...so I guess it's time to delete some stuff.. so I could care less about that fail message, since I already have the game installed anyway.

(this is all re: q4 requirements... not even recommendations)

Post by **Baron[CotC]** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:50 am

I noticed it tells me i fail for HD space, even though i have like 30GB free, simply because my C drive only has windows installed on it and so i kept it nice and small heh.

it only checks C for free space

Post by BD » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:54 pm

At least you can get the page to load... lol

Post by **Aide-de-Camp** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:21 pm

I can't get the page to load at all.

And why isn't Dimples CotC yet?

Post by **Scion** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:26 pm

Declined the invitation several times, i believe?

Post by **Serpent** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:06 pm

Alright....I'm far into the game now have the blaster, machine gun, shotgun, hyperblaster, rocket launcher, railgun, lightning gun, grenade launcher, and nailgun... the more powerful weapons like the railgun, RL, and lightning gun are pretty cool... but....

I can take a lot of violence in games... as a matter of fact... it's how I vent out frustrations and anger - by killing monsters, etc.. but .... I don't like horror movies, and well... this game... reminds me of a horror movie except worse - it has more blood and gore than any game I have ever played... almost sickened me enough so that I stopped playing altogether... but I want to see the last weapon I don't have... the 'dark matter gun'... to see what kinda damage it can do.. and I want to finish what I started... but man.. there is some SICK stuff in this game... men laying on a conveyor belt...rolling along... having hooks stabbed into their backs at which point they are hung... carried along by the hook some more... ... ick....

Post by **Neophyte** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:00 pm

Serpent wrote:I don't like horror movies, and well... this game... reminds me of a horror movie except worse - it has more blood and gore than any game I have ever played...

That sounds pretty disturbing. FEAR has a lot of blood in it too. So I would have the camera look away when my kids were around. But this game was meant to be scarey. Mostly it's gore was suggestive, but there was times where a grenade would sever a limb or cause decapitation. Some of the in-game movies were real bad...

But, any way, I'm back to the happier times in Serious Sam 2 now. I don't mind blowing apart a giant mechinical spider or a half-beast/half-tank guy. Heck, I came to one level where you had to fight a dragon to get the princess that he kidnapped back. Only, she was real ugly, and they dragon got mad because you wouldn't rescue her! And so the fight ensues. Now, thats funny to me!

Post by **D.A.R.K.[CotC]** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:08 pm

Still can't get enough of "Armed and Dangerous". Now that's a funny game, and fun too.