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vinnie1

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 7

Quake 4 on Archlinux amd64

Hi

I have been trying to get this game installed and playing, but seem to be having some trouble getting it going. Does anybody know of any recent how-to on how to get this game going, There seems to be a lot of outdated information on the www.

My problem is the game crashes on start up leaving my screen resolution low, and the only way to get things back to normal is to log out and back in.

I have the propriety Nvidia drivers working properly. Steam games like Half-Life 2 working perfectly.

Thanks for your help

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Quake 4 on Archlinux amd64

An old trick I used to use, put in a script called "resetscreensize", was:

xrandr -s 1280x1024  # Switching away from native resolution
xrandr -s 1920x1080  # Switching back to native resolution

But now I just use this:

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode='DFP-0: 1920x1080'

And then:

# For good measure, reload nvidia settings, in case e.g. brightness is wrong
nvidia-settings --load-config-only

Also, another trick to get a logfile, is e.g.:

quake4 > $HOME/quake4.log 2>&1

Last edited by brebs (2014-03-26 21:00:26)

vinnie1

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 7

Re: Quake 4 on Archlinux amd64

Thanks brebs, that did the trick.

Looking at the log file, and then a quick Google I found that I had a file permission issue. Changed the permissions all good now.