Installing Quake 3 in Vista X64

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Anyone know if it is possible? i googled a bit but couldnt find answers. Some ppl says it works and others dont. Maybe it only works on vistax86

thanks
 
Quake 4 works like a charm. I know that doesn't help you all that much. I was just putting it out there.
 
Just tested Quake 3 Arena and Quake 3 Team Arena with one quick bot game on each. Had no problems what so ever and had the latest patch installed with Team Arena. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 for reference.


The only problem I ran in to was installation. The auto-run screen will not run and will popup with an error. Instead you need to manually go into the disc and open up the /Quake 3/ (Q3 Arena Disc) or /Setup/ (Q3 Team Arena Disc) folders and launch the setup.exe from there. Everything else from there on should be normal without any problem.
 
[quote name='Draekon']Just tested Quake 3 Arena and Quake 3 Team Arena with one quick bot game on each. Had no problems what so ever and had the latest patch installed with Team Arena. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 for reference.


The only problem I ran in to was installation. The auto-run screen will not run and will popup with an error. Instead you need to manually go into the disc and open up the /Quake 3/ (Q3 Arena Disc) or /Setup/ (Q3 Team Arena Disc) folders and launch the setup.exe from there. Everything else from there on should be normal without any problem.[/quote]

thanks i originally thought about that and did try it but i guess i didnt go deep enough in the folders....

installing now! :)
 
I know some games from that period weren't real keen on multicore CPUs, although I believe those were mostly Unreal based games. If you get weird crashes try setting processor affinity to just one core.
 
setup doesn't work on mine, (vista x64 home premium)

however, just running quake3.exe from the quake3 folder in the CD works fine.
 
Did you right click the setup file and select run as Admin?

[quote name='mikeball']setup doesn't work on mine, (vista x64 home premium)

however, just running quake3.exe from the quake3 folder in the CD works fine.[/quote]
 
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