Quake 4

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Quake 4

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Developers
	id Software
	Raven Software
Publishers
	Activision
	Bethesda Softworks
Engines
	id Tech 4

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

Quake
Quake	1996
Quake II	1997
Quake III Arena	1999
Quake 4	2005
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars	2007
Quake Live	2010
Quake II RTX	2019
Quake Enhanced	2021
Quake Champions	2022
Quake II Enhanced	2023

Key points

Runs well on low-end hardware

General information

Steam Forums for game series

Steam Community Discussions

Planet Quake

Improvements

Patches

Required for Widescreen support

Windows: Full Quake 4 patch 1.4.2

Mac: Full Quake 4 patch 1.4.2

Linux: Full Quake 4 patch 1.4.2

Quality settings fix

Modern high end GPUs with a lot of memory can cause Quake 4 to ignore any other quality mode than low quality. To force the ultra quality settings create a new file named autoexec.cfg under the q4base directory of the game's own directory and put the following lines:

seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_downSizeBump "0"
seta image_downSizeSpecular "0"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta image_ignoreHighQuality "0"
seta image_roundDown "0"
seta image_useCompression "0"
seta image_useNormalCompression "0"
seta image_anisotropy "16"
seta image_lodbias "0'
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta r_renderer "best"

When saving the file make sure you save it with the .cfg extension! If the file extensions are not visible in Explorer, Notepad will create a file named autoexec.cfg.txt instead of autoexec.cfg!

Video settings

File:Quake4 settings.jpg

System settings.

File:Quake4advanced settings.jpg

Advanced settings.

Custom Widescreen

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows XP	Windows XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.8 GB	2.8 GB
Video card (GPU)	100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB 3D hardware accelerated video card required	100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB 3D hardware accelerated video card required