Anyone found that the 3rd CD has a reeeaally long load time?

Post by **jayP.lq** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:20 am

I'm probably the only person in the world that hasnt installed a DVD player on there PC... so I had to get the CD version of Q4

I'm stuck with the 3rd disk at the point were the installer screen is showing the 2 strogg in red/orange shooting, with a cannon in the background. On the small installer screen it says it installing pak006.pk4.

The CD light is not flickering anymore, but the orange light by the power button is flickering a bit on and off.

I have tried to install this 3 times already and it just gets stuck at this point each time. Any suggetions as to whats going on?

should i just keep waiting?

If I copy the contents of each CD onto my hard-drive and then ran the installer do you think that would work? or would that be pointless?

any help would be greatly appreciated

Post by **jayP.lq** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:19 am

ok, so I cant just copy the CD to my hard drive and run the installer fom my hard drive.

awesome

I have the game and I cant even install it. :icon33:

Post by **DethSquad#29** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:13 am

My disc 4 pak008.pak is corrupt as well. bunch of people on PQ are having the same problem.

Fuck.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:17 am

This isnt good!

Post by **jayP.lq** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:37 am

omfg

I think I'm going to kill something :icon33: :icon33:

A guy over at esreality said he couldnt load passed disk 2 :\

Post by **Big_Mac** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:10 am

Well I'm glad to see its not just me having problems. I also have the CD version and it hangs up at the end of the second CD. I figured it was my PC, but guess not. Still gonna upgrade the hard drive and increase the memory up to 1 GB.

MAC

Post by **Bdw3** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:13 am

Can you guys copy the game data direcly from the CDs to your game folder at all?

IE the \Setup\Data directory on the CDs is basically the Quake 4 folder, Just combind them and rename [Data] to [Quake 4]

Although it's about 200Megs larger on the DVD than it is installed. So that's odd. o_0

ehhh- try it anyway!

Post by **Big_Mac** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:14 am

Thanks for the info. I'll try it tomorrow.

MAC

Post by **jayP.lq** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:10 am

I finally got mine to load by installing to a different partition :\

took me a total of 4.5 hours of trying just to get it finally install

Post by **zio13** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:00 am

I think I should get the DVD version... :icon32:

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:28 pm

Guys its confirmed there is a bug in the CD version of Q4, thats why most shops in the UK wont sell it just yet. Its on CD2 or something.

So you will have to pay £50, heh.

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:31 pm

DVD is where it's at nowadays anyway so...

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:37 pm

CD1 took a long time to load, the other three were fine. By the time I got to the second CD, my brother was up and running :icon33: . I think it is just a hardware issue.

edit: Yeah, I thought about the DVD version, but there were none available. At the EB I checked, they sent 20 CD versions and like 6 DVD versions(The guy at the desk was looking at the list of package contents when I stepped up).

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:51 pm

Grudge wrote:DVD is where it's at nowadays anyway so...

Took forever really...

Post by **shiznit** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:09 pm

My dvd drive is complete shit, works 60% of the time. Stupid sony, quake4 better install when I get the game.

Post by **DethSquad#29** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:44 pm

I tried to copy to the hard drive, no dice. Gonna see about an exchange. This really sucks

Bad CRC error on disc

Post by **R00k** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:36 pm

Damn, I'm really glad I found the DVD version now.

Post by **DethSquad#29** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:53 pm

POSSIBLE Fix (reposted from PlanetQuake, I have not tried it yet):

I got this to work, its not a defective disk
its' installshield fucking bug, where the engine is corrupted and or there is a problem where autorun.exe on disk 2 is making the installer choke on the last file on disk 2.

Follow those instructions re: disabling autoplay, holding LEFT SHIFT on disks 2-4 waiting until your CD rom light goes out completely before pressing OK for the next disk installation message.

https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin ... _topview=1

[added Oct 19 2005 2:26PM]

JUST SO YOU ALL REALIZE it's a bug with installshield ...
here is the ACTIVISION SUPPORT LINK!!!

https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin ... _topview=1

Edit: fixed urls to not be obnoxiously long

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:01 pm

URLS are parsed automatically.

Post by **DethSquad#29** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:17 pm

Ahh cool, thanks

Post by **Big_Mac** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:19 am

I've tried every fix on the Activision support site and still get the 1503 error at the end of the second disk. I'm going to return it to EB tomorrow and see if I can get a replacement.

If I can't do that, I'll wipe my hard drive, reinstall XP and try again.

MAC

Post by **sevenredseven** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:15 pm

anyone tried copying or installing the game in windows protected mode?

Post by **ajerara** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:49 pm

I had a lot of trouble getting the 4th disk to recognize, it just kept telling me to install Disk 4 over and over when it wwas already in there, I have a cd-r and a dvd-rom and it was the same in both of them. i just kept switching it back and forth and finally it recognised and finished the install.

Post by **Big_Mac** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:38 am

Took back the CD version today and bought the DVD version instead. Installed with no problems.

MAC

Post by **bitWISE** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:08 am

Grudge wrote:DVD is where it's at nowadays anyway so...

Hell yeah. The 'making of' stuff is fucking lame though.