Why doesn't Quake 4 work?

[dguy6789]

I am wondering if anyone can figure this one out.

I installed and patched Quake 4 on one of my computers. When I try to start a game, it takes extremely long to load(longer than it took to load on computers years ago that were far less powerful than this one). It gets about 85% through the loading screen and then it crashes and I am presented with this error message:

Error

Specs of the machine in question:

Celeron E1200 1.6Ghz
2GB DDR 667
Radeon HD 4670 256MB
Windows Vista Home Premium x86 SP2
ECS 945GCT-M3 Mainboard

All drivers are up to date, there are no viruses or malware, all windows updates are installed, machine passes every stability test, runs every game except Quake 4 perfectly fine. This problem is 100% repeatable. Happens every single time in exactly the same way.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this before? Quite frankly, this is the first time I've ever had a PC game fail to work on a completely flawless computer before and it is troubling.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Try running it as an admin.

 

[dguy6789]

No dice

 

[pmv]

Are the other games that work also OpenGL, or are they directX?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Tried XP compatibility mode?

 

[dguy6789]

Doom 3 works perfectly fine on the machine, it's OpenGL and even uses the same game engine. I haven't tried XP compatibility mode. I'll try that next time I get the chance.

 

[bloodugly]

tried reinstalling the game or installing it on a different computer? The disk might be faulty.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
I am wondering if anyone can figure this one out.

I installed and patched Quake 4 on one of my computers. When I try to start a game, it takes extremely long to load(longer than it took to load on computers years ago that were far less powerful than this one). It gets about 85% through the loading screen and then it crashes and I am presented with this error message:

Error

Specs of the machine in question:

Celeron E1200 1.6Ghz
2GB DDR 667
Radeon HD 4670 256MB
Windows Vista Home Premium x86 SP2
ECS 945GCT-M3 Mainboard

All drivers are up to date, there are no viruses or malware, all windows updates are installed, machine passes every stability test, runs every game except Quake 4 perfectly fine. This problem is 100% repeatable. Happens every single time in exactly the same way.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this before? Quite frankly, this is the first time I've ever had a PC game fail to work on a completely flawless computer before and it is troubling.

Weird Office 2007 Conflict?

Here's some more possibilities...

 

[dguy6789]

Quake 4 installs and runs on my desktop, but it still seems to take really long to load. My rig in the signature takes longer than my low end Athlon 64 computer did to load the game up. I don't have Microsoft Office on either computer but I do have the latest version of Open Office on both. I haven't messed around with Quake 4 on the other computer for a few days, I'll get around to it eventually.