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Quake 4

toast99 | 23 October, 2005 04:26

I purchased the FPS PC game Quake 4 yesterday, and boldly set forth to install it on my PC, a 64-bit beast with obscene amounts of memory and hard drive space, along with an impressive graphics card.

I took the precaution of updating my graphics driver, defragging my hard drives, even though I have software that constantly defrags my main drive, and placed the dvd in the drive.

All went well, product id valid, folder for installation of game ready, and off we go.

Error 1628.....not installed. Bugger.

Attempted to install on a lesser spec PC.

Installed. But. When I attempt to play the game the dvd drive is not recognised when the game is in the drive. ???

Solution. Return game and exchange for Farcry Instincts for the XBox, and wait for Quake 4 on the XBox 360.

I could have either contacted ID Software with the details, or checked the various gaming forums for advice, but when a purchaser has already made sure that he or she has above recommended minimum specs on their hardware for the game I do not see why it should be a problem in installing a game for it to work correctly.

(I almost feel disappointment in advance of playing the game though, because updates of games rarely deliver, with the exception of Unreal Tournament. Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 were both overhyped. Halo 2 on the XBox was, in my humble opinion, not as good a game as the original. There you are gamers....verbally castrate me!)

But I'm right.

:: Karma (+0/-0)