quake 4 is not starting

greengold · 2011-02-02 00:29:09

hi all...
this would be very brief post...
I have installed q4 form aur and copyed files from cd as manual is saying...
now when Im trying to run it by "quake4" command screen goes dark and than back and frame of some window (which is allways black so I cant see what is going on)appears, but then system freeze and I can only restart whole X server.
anybody experiences this kind of trouble?
thanks for advices

brebs · 2011-02-02 06:30:32

What video card?

With nvidia, quake4 is unstable for me, unless I first run:

nvclock -a flipping=0

Bizarrely, it's the only game I've seen that needs this.

greengold · 2011-02-02 09:29:46

no, this is Intel.

Dheart · 2011-02-02 12:41:28

Which Intel video card? It might be an issue of bad drivers on unsupported shaders. Do you have any terminal output?

greengold · 2011-02-02 17:52:31

its Intel HD Graphics...

after shutting down desktop effects it is not freezing so here's output:

[tepo@timeline32 ~]$ quake4
Quake4  V1.4.2 linux-x86 Jun 15 2007
found interface lo - loopback
found interface eth0 - 192.168.0.105/255.255.255.0
CPU: Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
--------- Initializing File System ----------
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/game000.pk4 with checksum 0xb3abe28c
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/game100.pk4 with checksum 0x74b379d9
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/game200.pk4 with checksum 0xa3c810d9
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xf2cbc998
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak002.pk4 with checksum 0x7f8d80d1
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak013.pk4 with checksum 0x6ad67f40
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak014.pk4 with checksum 0xee51cd59
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak015.pk4 with checksum 0xf5bf4e0c
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak016.pk4 with checksum 0x2196f58c
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak017.pk4 with checksum 0x91118a35
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak018.pk4 with checksum 0x98a14f03
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak019.pk4 with checksum 0xbc82ac79
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak020.pk4 with checksum 0xce74cda5
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak021.pk4 with checksum 0x2ba6e70c
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/pak022.pk4 with checksum 0x4e390eec
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/q4cmp_pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xd0813943
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_01.pk4 with checksum 0xd9f04b8b
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_02.pk4 with checksum 0x9dbd91fd
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_03.pk4 with checksum 0x2eb6ad8
Loaded pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_04.pk4 with checksum 0xd3fefaa1
Addon pk4 /opt/quake4/q4base/q4cmp_pak001.pk4 with checksum 0xd0813943 is on addon list
Current search path:
/home/tepo/.quake4/q4base
/opt/quake4/q4base
/opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_04.pk4 (3 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_03.pk4 (4 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_02.pk4 (21 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/zpak_english_01.pk4 (1 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak022.pk4 (14 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak021.pk4 (89 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak020.pk4 (11 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak019.pk4 (1206 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak018.pk4 (3 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak017.pk4 (3 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak016.pk4 (193 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak015.pk4 (34 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak014.pk4 (552 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak013.pk4 (239 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak002.pk4 (313 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/pak001.pk4 (5837 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/game200.pk4 (9 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/game100.pk4 (2 files)
/opt/quake4/q4base/game000.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
/opt/quake4/q4base/q4cmp_pak001.pk4 (119 files)
file system initialized.
---------------------------------------------
------------ Initializing Decls -------------
Loading guides.... 64 loaded
306ms to load 1125k of material
17ms to load 4k of skin
132ms to load 378k of sound
1ms to load 1k of materialType
431ms to load 2889k of lipSync
0ms to load 0k of playback
895ms to load 1690k of effect
---------------------------------------------
-------- Initializing renderSystem ----------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
---------------------------------------------
Found default language English with VO
.... found additional language 'french' without VO
.... found additional language 'italian' without VO
.... found additional language 'spanish' without VO
696 strings read from strings/english_code.lang
1794 strings read from strings/english_guis.lang
1797 strings read from strings/english_mappack.lang
2273 strings read from strings/english_maps.lang
3 strings read from strings/french_mappack.lang
3 strings read from strings/italian_mappack.lang
3 strings read from strings/spanish_mappack.lang
Couldn't open journal files
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec editor.cfg
couldn't exec Quake4Config.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
-------- Initializing Sound System ----------
sound system initialized.
---------------------------------------------
--------------- R_InitOpenGL ----------------
Initializing SDL subsystem
Loading GL driver 'libGL.so.1' through SDL
SDL_ListModes:
1366x768 1024x768 800x600 640x480 
SDL_ListModes are currently ignored for resolution filtering. Set r_useSDLModes to 1 if you want it
8/8/8/8 RGBA bits, 24 depth bits, 8 stencil bits
no multisampling
dlopen(libasound.so.2)
asoundlib version: 1.0.23
Alsa is available
------ Alsa Sound Initialization -----
opened Alsa PCM device default for playback
device buffer size: 5461 frames ( 21844 bytes )
allocated a mix buffer of 16384 bytes
--------------------------------------
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
...using GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_add
...using GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
...using GL_NV_blend_square
...using GL_ARB_texture_compression
X..GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc not found
Fatal Error: Texture compression unavailable
Shutting down SDL subsystem
--------------- BSE Shutdown ----------------
---------------------------------------------
Shutting down sound hardware
----------- Alsa Shutdown ------------
close pcm
dlclose
--------------------------------------
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Sys_Error: Texture compression unavailable

after last update, with new kernel, its pain... wifi,graphic even shuttdown dialog wont appear after pushing power button and X have to be restarted...

Darksoul71 · 2011-02-02 21:12:11

Well, how much more "speaking" need the error messages to be ?

...
X..GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc not found
Fatal Error: Texture compression unavailable
...
Sys_Error: Texture compression unavailable

Q4 simply dies because your Intel chip doesn't support S3TC (at least at driver level)

Edit:
Check out if your graphic adapter supports S3TC at all. The radeon wiki mentions a similar error message if the corresponding lib is missing:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonProgram

1 Quits with "Sys_Error: Texture compression unavailable" if libtxc_dxtn.so is missing. Otherwise unplayable with software fallback for two-sided stencils. This is a known issue.

Not shure if this helps for you Intel HD though....

Last edited by Darksoul71 (2011-02-02 21:15:47)

greengold · 2011-02-02 21:40:57

yes, it seems that Intel HD really does not support that... sadly...

Doctor Drive · 2011-04-25 09:35:16

pacman -S  driconf

Run it as user.
At image quality tab
"Enable S3TC texture compression even if software support is not available" -> YES

Done. U can play now

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#1 2011-02-02 00:29:09

quake 4 is not starting

#2 2011-02-02 06:30:32

Re: quake 4 is not starting

#3 2011-02-02 09:29:46

Re: quake 4 is not starting

#4 2011-02-02 12:41:28

Re: quake 4 is not starting

#5 2011-02-02 17:52:31

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#6 2011-02-02 21:12:11

Re: quake 4 is not starting

#7 2011-02-02 21:40:57

Re: quake 4 is not starting

#8 2011-04-25 09:35:16

Re: quake 4 is not starting

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