Hi
I have just purchased Quake 4 and my dvd drive is not reading the disk at all
I have the following drive - ATAPI DVD DH18A1P dvd player
My system Intel Core2Duo E6600 Dual Core CPU, GIGABYTE GA-965P Motherboard, 2x 1GB KINGSTON PC5300 667Mhz DDR2 RAM, 400 GB HDD SATA2 HDD, 18x DVD +/- RW Optical Drive, PCI X 8800GTS 320MB Graphics
Someone has said it may be something to do with copy protection
My quake 4 is an original dvd disk
Any help please
Thanks
Simon
Is it reading other disks normally? If it is, I would exchange it for another copy. Copy protection will not cause it to be unable to read the disc. Sounds like you just got a bad original.
Hi
All other DVD and Cd’s work fine in the drive
I had also had same problem with a friends version of quake 4. I then purchased my own, in case there was some sort of copy right etc; esp as it is a liteon/sony drive - over protective!!
There is a warning on the back of the quake 4 box t#saying that there may be a compatibility issue with some chipsets, but it does support nvidea7 series. Although I wonder if the series 8 ie 8800gts has some issues
I am going to try the DVD disk in another machine tomorrow to see what happens
Any suggestions
Thanks
Simon
It could be a damaged disc. If also on a different drive you are not able to read the disc, then you should ask for a substitution or a refund 
– nevermind… wrong post –
Managed to get Quake 4 working on my office computer, so it is not the disk
The computer company, Abrico, have offered to swap the DVD drive for another Make, so I may try this and see what happens
It is strange though, that I can play other DVD movies through the drive!!
Anyone got any suggestions
Thanks
Simon
Are you running Vista on your computer? There seems to be a lot of programs that are not compatable with Vista. Just a thought. 
do you have any virtual drives? my bf2142 dvd did the same thing until I removed my ultraISO virtual drive – now it works fine!
I’m having the same issue but with Micrsoft Office Enterprise DVD-ROM.
I have exactly the same drive so any assistance is welcomed.