We’ve tested Doom 3 and Quake 4 to run fine on Windows Vista, provided you have an OpenGL ICD installed (provided by your GPU vendor). Both NVidia and AMD/ATI have released an OpenGL ICD in their latest driver line.
If no OpenGL ICD is present, the default OpenGL driver is a wrapper to D3D provided by Microsoft, which lacks the necessary features to run id games with their full performance and graphical impact.
The install CDs (and DVDs) for Doom 3 and Quake 4 will install the game fine under Vista. The Quake 4 installer may require you to install Flash Player first, and Vista may pop occasional warning windows but in the end you will get a working installation.
Fixes and updates in 1.3.1:
– Tested and improved Vista compatibility
– Fix a potential crash in physics
– Fix an issue with pak downloaded being immediately appended without filesystem restart
– Fixes to DNS lookup, reduced the stalls
– Updated the code to gcc 4.0 compliance, for Mac OSX universal binaries and GNU/Linux x86 binaries
– Threading implementation for Mac and Linux is more compliant with the Win32 behaviours