Mon Jun 18 16:39:35 CDT 2007 Quake4 1.4.2 has been released. There is both a full installer and an update from 1.3 old news

The Quake4 Demo is a free download, which you can obtain from the FTP server or the BitTorrent tracker (see below).

You can download from id Software's ftp server, or one of it's mirrors. You can also download the files via our local BitTorrent tracker.

= 2.2.4 3D acceleration ( not required for dedicated server ): - SDL >= 1.2 - latest OpenGL drivers, correctly configured - ATI(r) Radeon(r) 9700 - ATI Radeon 9800 - ATI Radeon X300 series - ATI Radeon X550 series - ATI Radeon X600 series - ATI Radeon X700 series - ATI Radeon X800 series - ATI Radeon X850 series - Nvidia(r) GeForce(TM) 3/Ti series - Nvidia GeForce 4/Ti series - Nvidia GeForce FX series - Nvidia GeForce 6 series - Nvidia GeForce 7 series Audio ( not required for dedicated server ): - sound card with OSS or Alsa support, stereo and surround sound are supported wth both APIss Alsa >= 1.0.6 is required for alsa sound backend Multiplayer: - Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported - Internet play requires broadband connection ]]>

NOTE: The instructions below apply to the updates for the full version of the game. If you are installing the Demo version, the full retail release of Quake 4 is not needed, and all the media files are provided in the installer.

The official website for Quake 4 modding is http://www.iddevnet.com/ In particular, you can read some elements of server adminstration on the Quake 4 modding site.

Topics already covered in the DOOM III FAQ are not duplicated here. In particular, please read about third party installers.

The checksums of the pak files to be copied for the German version of Quake 4 are below. Note that it will only work in multiplayer with other german copies of the game. The installation instructions are otherwise the same.

Only applies to releases 1.0.x of Quake 4. Bug is fixed 1.1 upwards Some Debian and Debian-based distributions ( like Ubuntu ) are crashing during startup. It appears this is caused by the SDL packages selection. You need to install libsdl1.2debian-alsa or libsdl1.2debian-oss instead of libsdl1.2debian-all. FYI, it is not clear what happens with this crash. Happens during initialization of static variables, has to do with a cvar named g_log and goes away if renamed to something else. So it would look like this version of SDL has g_log already defined from somewhere else and the dynamic loader getting confused over it.

Use Ctrl+Alt+~ to toggle the console. If you set com_allowConsole to 1, you can use ~ only ( also note that shift-~ gives you a smaller console ).

You can use si_mapCycle to set a list of maps to play through. Something like "mp/q4dm11v1;mp/q4dm3;mp/q4dm6;mp/q4dm7;mp/q4dm8;mp/q4ctf5" for instance ( that's the Tourney maps ). si_tourneyLimit counts how many tournaments will run before going to the next map ( other game types always switch ). You can also use g_mapCycle and execute a script for each map rotation. Powerful but a bit more involved. Look at the one we provide to get an idea how you can customize it. The game comes with some ready made .cfg files for the various gametypes and maps. e.g. you can type exec dm.cfg at the console to start a deathmatch server with the default configuration settings.

If you want to require a password to join your server, set the value of g_password to the password. Then actually enable/disable it with si_usePass. Don't set the password in si_usePass, that won't work.

Some information for firewall configurations to play nice with quake4: all game traffic is UDP by default servers listen on port 28004 ( if you run several servers on the same machines, it will use 28004, 28005 etc. ) your server needs to be able to talk to the master server at q4master.idsoftware.com on port 27950

Only applies to release 1.0.x of Quake 4. This is because the Windows version was released first and didn't come with a game code pak for Linux. There is a simple fix, server admins need to put the Linux gamecode pak file game100.pk4 into the q4base/ directory: game100.pk4 NOTE: That this only applies to version 1.0 ( gold ) and the updates compatible with it ( all the 1.0.x versions ). Make sure that file is named game100.pk4, looks like some web browsers or proxies like to rename it to game100.zip. NOTE: The Linux demo has the same issue and cannot be fixed. Windows clients can connect to a Linux server, but Linux clients will only see and connect to Linux servers.

The install CDs have Rock Ridge extensions which may get in the way of copying the files to your hard drive. You should make sure to mount the CDs ignoring the extension ( "-o norock" ) or setup appropriate mounted partition ownership / copy files as root and fixup manually.

Multisampling can be enabled through the engine by setting r_multiSamples to an appropriate value ( Quake4 1.3 ). If you enable multisampling through GPU specific interfaces like nvcontrol, make sure you set r_multiSamples to match. If you get opaque transparent surfaces after enabling it, make sure r_alphaToCoverage is set to 1. If you are getting opaque grey windows, and are not using multisampling, make sure r_multiSamples is set to 0

internal server browser in 1.0.0.0 / build 2147 will only show 1000 servers max. Third party browsers like xqf can retrieve and filter the complete list. if you have a non US keyboard, you may not be able to get to the console. Use an applet in gnome or kde to switch to a qwerty layout before playing, or use xmodmap to remap the console key you want to emit keycode 49. the game is crashing when loading the game dynamic modules on some Debian and derivates distros. See the workaround you can't use savegames across different operating systems. Games you save on Windows(r) are likely to crash if you load them up on GNU/Linux.

If you want to report an issue with the game, you should make sure that your report includes all information useful to characterize and reproduce the problem. check the Linux Gamers' FAQ for any issue not covered here search on Google include the computer's hardware and software description ( CPU, RAM, 3D Card, distribution, kernel etc. ) include the output of glxinfo if appropriate, send a console log, a link to a save game, a screenshot, an strace .. Note that we can't help you with OS-specific issues like configuring OpenGL correctly, configuring ALSA or configuring the network. If you are sending a console log, make sure to enable developer output: ( the log is written to ~/.quake4/q4base or ~/.quake4/yourmod ) Do not cut the log to the part you think is relevant. We often want to see the initialization of the renderer and filesystem. As a rule of thumb, a bug is unlikely to be investigated unless it has been reported by different people or on different systems. If you have a complete and precise bug report, email it to me: ttimo at idsoftware dot com

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