Is there a way to disable the intro movies for Quake 4? I went to the PCGamingWiki and tried the "+disconnect" parameter but it didn't work.

When the game runs, the ESC key can skip some of the intros.


Strange, +disconnect should work. I've also heard of this command line option, but it doesn't work for me:
set com_skipintrovideos 1

Just to double check, your shortcut should read something similar to this:
“G:\Quake 4\Quake4.exe” +disconnect

Replace G with the drive letter you installed to and make sure your folder paths are accurate. If that doesn't work, I'd try to change where the quotes are, like this:

“G:\Quake 4\Quake4.exe +disconnect"

Alternatively, go to your Quake 4 installation folder and make a batch file. Batch files are just text files that end with .bat instead of .txt

Open notepad. Add this line to a new text file.

Quake4.exe +disconnect


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Save it in your Quake 4 directory as: quake4-nointro.bat (not quake4-nointro.bat.txt)

Click on the bat file in the Quake 4 directory, and the game should run without the intro.

If that works and you want to want to use a shortcut on your desktop, just change the part of the shortcut text that says Quake4.exe to quake4-nointro.bat

Save the shortcut and then that should work now.

If that still doesn't work, run Quake 4.

At the menu, Press Control + Alt + ~

To make Console active with only ~, type:

seta com_allowconsole 1

Maybe that will unlock the option to skip the intro.

I've added +disconnect to the shortcut and created that batch file but it didn't work. I've added "set com_skipintrovideos 1" and "seta com_skipintrovideos 1" to the Quake4Config.cfg file, but the intro movies are still playing. Is there a way to just manually delete these intro videos from the folder?

I found all of the video files in the .pk4 archives and deleted them. Turns out this causes the game to crash. Unless you can find the file that tells the game to look for them and delete the relevant lines, I think hitting escape a couple of times on startup is probably the better option.

Can you give me the name of the .pk4 file that contains the intro videos? Maybe there is a way to create a dummy file so the game just skips it.

Ok. After fiddling around more with the files, I got a bit further.

In pak024.pk4 and pak025.pk4, there is a much smaller version of the Activision logo video, which I assume is there to replace the original one that is now no longer used due to the game now being published by Bethesda. So I took that smaller file, copied and renamed it, and replaced all the other videos with it.

The videos are in
pak012.pk4
pak023.pk4
pak024.pk4
pak025.pk4
under the 'video' subfolder. You can open these with, I assume, any unzipping software. I used 7zip.

Running the game again, instead of the intros, I got a black screen... and the sound from the videos before the menu opened.

The intro videos, it turns out, are made up of separate video and sound files. The audio files are in
pak010.pk4
pak025.pk4
under the 'sound\cinematics\bumpers' subfolder.

So I went about replacing those with empty audio files. And that got me a lengthy black screen before the menu opened. I also created a new .pk4 file with all the empty files I'd created/copied in the hopes that I could come up with a fix that didn't require diving into all of the other ones, but that produced the same result. The black screen went away after I hit 'escape' three times, exactly like I was skipping the normal intros manually.

It would appear that the game is set to run the intros for their proper duration even if you remove the files. If there's a way to fix that, I don't know what it is, or where to start looking. I think this is going to be the end of my investigation.

I ran into the same problem using an empty roq file I found online here:

http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=85993

Although it didn't work (the screen went black but the audio still played like Rublore experienced), I did find out that you don't need to create a pk4 file with the videos inside to test them.

If you download that roq file, you can create a videos directory in your q4base directory and test there by copying and renaming it with these file names:

atvi_logo.roq
idlogo.roq
raven_logo_320k.roq

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Update:
After looking through the pk4 files, I couldn't find a configuration file or script that specifically calls the intro videos and audio files. I think it must be hard coded into the executable or a dll file.

Lately I had started a thread about this as well:
https://www.gog.com/forum/quake_series/quake_4_disconnect_doesnt_work

3x Esc does work for me though.

I haven't got the GOG version of Quake 4 but I have found a method that works with a nice GUI, as well as allowing you to set a custom resolution, aspect ratio, FOV and FPS limit without mucking around the config file.

On the PCGW (PC Gaming Wiki) page of the game, there is a link to a "Quake 4 Tweaker" GUI tool that creates its own config file. One of the options is to allow you to skip intro videos. I cannot post links, but if you Google the following: quake 4 pcgw, it should lead you to the page, where you can use CTRL+F to search for tweaker. You can then download it no problems.

Here's the truncated link regardless (replace the "(dot)" with "."): [url=https://community(dot)pcgamingwiki(dot)com/files/file/1009-quake-4-tweaker]https://community(dot)pcgamingwiki(dot)com/files/file/1009-quake-4-tweaker[/url]

Put it in the same folder as the executable, run it. select and tweak the desired options and you're all set! Should work on the GOG version.