Help with Quake4 and 7800GTX . . .

[SR-71]

Just got Quake 4, popped it in and installed and ... nadda. Shows the Quake4 emblem, goes to a grey screen for about 3 seconds then shuts down and returns me to my desktop??? I have the game patched up current and the latest forceware drivers (84.21) installed. Completely perplexed so I suspect it's something really dumb on my part. Any suggestions??? Here are my system specs:

Silverstone TJ-03 SILVERSTONE SST-ST60F 600W Modular ABIT AN8 Ultra (BIOS 19)
Athlon 64 4000+ SanDiego @ 2.75 Ghtz (11x250) 1.47V XP-90 w/ 92mm Panaflow fan
2 Gb (2x1GB) OCZ Platinum at 2-2-2-5 1T @ 2.9V eVGA 7800GTX w/ACS @ 496/1320
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB HDD Plextor PX-716SA / ASUS 16x DVD ROM
Creative X-FI Platinum Klipsch Promedia 2.1 XP Pro SP2

Thanks in advance!

[neoman]

Have you tried to re install game / drivers ?

[DilTech]

Just got Quake 4, popped it in and installed and ... nadda. Shows the Quake4 emblem, goes to a grey screen for about 3 seconds then shuts down and returns me to my desktop??? I have the game patched up current and the latest forceware drivers (84.21) installed. Completely perplexed so I suspect it's something really dumb on my part. Any suggestions??? Here are my system specs:

Silverstone TJ-03 SILVERSTONE SST-ST60F 600W Modular ABIT AN8 Ultra (BIOS 19)
Athlon 64 4000+ SanDiego @ 2.75 Ghtz (11x250) 1.47V XP-90 w/ 92mm Panaflow fan
2 Gb (2x1GB) OCZ Platinum at 2-2-2-5 1T @ 2.9V eVGA 7800GTX w/ACS @ 496/1320
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB HDD Plextor PX-716SA / ASUS 16x DVD ROM
Creative X-FI Platinum Klipsch Promedia 2.1 XP Pro SP2

Thanks in advance!
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Your problem isn't your videocard, it's your soundcard. You need to download the new openal drivers and you'll be fine.