[xsphat]

The sound settings menu has flashing text that says my sound card does not support OpenAL sound. What does that mean? Is there a patch or anything?

[Leonard]

Do you have a third-party soundcard in your Mac (ie did you add a soundcard?)? It sounds like Quake 4 is detecting one and is using it, but it doesn't support OpenAL (Which is one standard for surround sound, like OpenGL for 3D graphics.).

Check if there is an option in the game to use OpenAL sound - it would probably be in the sound/audio settings of the game and make sure it's unchecked. Either that or look for an update for your soundcard or Quake 4.

[xsphat]

The third time I started it up, I had my Airport on the sound just works now. Don't know if my computer had to download something or what, and I don't care.

I had the same deal with the demo. My current Mac is a 1.83 MacBook with 2 gigs of memory.

So problem solved . . . some how. Thanks anyway, I'm gonna play right now.