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quake 4 problems.

post #1 of 6
11/18/05 at 6:02am
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Hi all,

i just bought quake 4 today. i was able to install the game without any problems. however, when i start a new game, i get no sound. i check the sound setting and i get a message saying that openal isn't supported. is there a driver i need to install?

also when i tried to run quake 4 in ultra high setting, quake 4 always crashes. i assume that i don't have enough ram for it. am i correct?

tia!

i9300, 1gig ram and geforce 6800 256mb video card.
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post #2 of 6
11/18/05 at 6:20am
the ultra high setting is for 512 mb video cards
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post #3 of 6
11/18/05 at 4:33pm
It does use 512 Mb of texture memory but I it can use the system ram as well. It runs horribly if you don't have a sizeable amount of ram becuase of disk caching.
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post #4 of 6
11/18/05 at 4:46pm
lol i can play quake 4 plenty well with my x300 umm....try at a lower setting or just reinstall it and see if the problem still remains.
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post #5 of 6
11/18/05 at 4:55pm
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Originally Posted by lotri
lol i can play quake 4 plenty well with my x300 umm....try at a lower setting or just reinstall it and see if the problem still remains.
i can run the game at 'high' graphic setting, but i just wanna see what the 'ultra high' setting has to offer.. i guess i need to increase my virtual memory..


anyone has any idea why the game has no sound? i'm using the onboard sound card. thanks.
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post #6 of 6
11/19/05 at 1:42pm
You can increase the virtual memory to play at ultra settings.. but think about it the peak data rate on your hard drive with a 7200 rpm 60 gb is 80 Mb/s while the bandwidth on ram is in the area of gigabytes/s. If you you use a setting that was meant for ram to store data and you use the Hard disk it's obviously going to have performance issues.
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