That's funny, I have the same platform (775, e8400) waiting for a new gpu, and I'll be playing at that exact resolution. May take me a while, but I'll benchmark Quake 4 once I get the machine up.

It's a pretty cool game graphics-wise, don't know why you don't hear more talk about it.

I understand Quake 1-3 were pretty revolutionary, but the hardware demands of Quake 4 are not so unusual as to make it particularly useful as a benchmark, especially when various flavors of 3DMark will work perfectly well on systems capable of running Quake 4.

AFAIK this game was not on Steam for a long time. I can see it is now, I don't know when that happened though.

buckeye wrote:

It's a pretty cool game graphics-wise, don't know why you don't hear more talk about it.

for exactly that reason

Quake 4 had a awesome single player campaign and I recommend it. It uses a highly optimized version of the Doom 3 engine so it ran like butter with any decent system at the time.

Even my GTX 960 2GB would probably get hundreds of FPS @ 1080p. 😉

Fusion wrote:

Quake 4 has a awesome single player campaign and I recommend it. It was highly optimized version of the Doom 3 engine so it ran like butter with any decent system for its time.

Even my GTX 960 2GB would probably get hundreds of FPS @ 1080p. 😉

Quake 4 is the ONLY game to ever get a visceral reaction from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Nk1WI2LTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Tg-Kpjazk

No game has since ever made me feel queasy playing

Quake 4 is the ONLY game to ever get a visceral reaction from me. […]
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Quake 4 is the ONLY game to ever get a visceral reaction from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Nk1WI2LTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Tg-Kpjazk

No game has since ever made me feel queasy playing

its a quake 2 with better graphics still now that i've seen it, its still pretty bad in some places and would probably run bad on an old box like mine;

mrau wrote:

its a quake 2 with better graphics still now that i've seen it, its still pretty bad in some places and would probably run bad on an old box like mine;

Well its running with everything on low. It does look much, much better with all settings turned up. I wouldn't quite say its just Quake 2 with better graphics either 🤣.

I enjoy Quake 4. It's not as polished or sophisticated as Doom 3 in my view, but the gameplay is solid. Still fun after many playthroughs.

How are you benchmarking? Quake 4 doesn't have a built-in timedemo, as far as I know.

Whenever I play Quake 4, I notice it has a slight stutter to it. The SMP option usually makes this worse. The Steam version also has a bug that usually necessitates some cfg tweaks to get the textures running above low quality.

Which reminds me of the Doom3 EAX hiccup. Sometimes the entire screen shifts for an instant. Weird stuff.

Quake 4 was at its best in 2005-07 because of multiplayer alone

In that time frame, because OF the graphics being somewhat modern (i.e. basic normal mapping and carmack's reverse shadows), "pros" wouldn't touch it with a 50-foot pole being kryptonite to "winners", therefore the multiplayer was much more enjoyable (until the dreaded 1.4 patch where shadows could be turned off without cheats after so much of their whining)

Q3 had a similar sentiment until 2002 when a physics exploit was found with faster P4 processors, encouraging widespread vertexlight abuse to get there.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

AFAIK this game was not on Steam for a long time. I can see it is now, I don't know when that happened though.

It was never on Steam until around 2012. Bethesda was really lazy on getting Q4 rereleased digitally.

I once tried running Q4 on a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz laptop with an integrated GeForce 4 card.
It runs! But so slow it's unplayable even in low-res.

maximus wrote on 2017-05-19, 01:59:

How are you benchmarking? Quake 4 doesn't have a built-in timedemo, as far as I know.

Since this hasn't been answered, and it's not really mentioned in a lot of places on the interwebs, I'll resurrect this thread and chime in.

• The retail release of Quake 4 must be updated to version 1.4.2 for this to work (digital versions on GOG and Steam are already up to date)
• Inside the Quake 4 directory, you need to copy the "demos" folder from q4mp\demos to q4base\demos
• Disable V-Sync by going into Settings > System > Advanced Settings > Vertical sync > No
• Open the console by pressing CTRL+ALT+Tilde key (~) and type the following:

1playNetTimeDemo id_perftest.ndmo85

After the demo finishes running, open the console once again to see the frame rate.