Hi all, i'm currently running windows 64bit (legit), and a fresh (legit) install of quake 4 but when i go to install the 1.3 patch it tells me it cant find a installation of quake 4, so i browse to my Quake 4 dir and it still tells me it cant find a proper installation of Quake 4.

Anyone else had this problem?

I did - but this was on my mac (turned out I was attempting to drag the Quake 4 shortcut to my applications folder, not the Quake 4 directory).

bewm. I suspect it's just a weird 64 bit thing. I'm on my way home but if you're still stuck tomorrow I'll see if I can figure out how to pull apart the patch .exe manually (we get to do that fun task a lot because Activision still don't like releasing dedicated servers !@#)

dedicated servers lead to wares... or so someone in the biz once said to me :/



all the same, we're doing an XP64 upgrade at work at the moment (god knows why). Bring on Vista lubbin!@#$

last edited by koopz at 09:25:13 12/Sep/06

Damn, the funny thing is i can play Quake 4 on 64bit fine even multiplayer, but cannot install the latest patch :S

Try this:

1) drop to a command prompt
2) change to the directory where your Quake 4 patch exe is
3) run the following: quake4_1_3_patch.exe /V /a

If it gets past the initial checks you might get to thepoint where it lets you extract the contents out to a certain destination. I don't know if it will get that far though, depends what checks installshield is doing first.

If it doesn't work, I would guess you could run that same operation on a 32bit OS, then copy the resulting files to your PC manually.