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NO MORE! PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP!

After 446 comments have been posted, I'm disabling comments for this story and wrapping it all up with this mini-FAQ:

FAQ

Q: Where can I DL the D3 Alpha?
A: It's been around for months now, if you haven't got it yet you suck. Go away.

Q: Will the D3 Alpha run on my computer? It has XXXXX.
A: I don't care, go get the damn thing and find out for yourself. It's been out for months if you haven't done it yet you suck and so does you PC.

Q: When I run the D3 Alpha I get XXXXX error and I can't continue.
A: Firstly, read something, there's a million suggestions below. It's been out for months now, surely you could have worked it out by now. Secondly I don't care, go away, you suck.

Q: Why can't I get any help here? I'm going somewhere nice where they help people and answer their questions.
A: Goodbye... and you're the suckiest suck that ever sucked.

Finally: the alpha is not very big. It really shouldn't hold your interest for very long. Wait for the damn game!

I dont get it, when I start up the game, halfway during the loading screen, it says it had an error and says it needs to shut down.. can anyone help?

I'm still just lookin for the demo itself... :-(
anybody wanna help me out on that one?

I got the demo of overnet (www.overnet. com), it's all over it. But I just get it loading then a yellow screen, console thing says something about an renderer initialisation error.

Steve, here's how:

1. Get the 'eMule' client
2. Go to http://www.sharereactor.com
3. Find the eDonkey URL for it
4. Download
5. Go to bed
6. Wake up next morning, it'll be there.

Enjoy.

6. Wake up next morning, it'll be there.

If you're on dialup, you'll see that instead of telling you how long its going to take, you get something like "1D2H". This translates to 1 DAY 2 hours.

So the steps should read:
5. Overdose
6. Fall into a semi-coma
7. Sleep for 26 hours
8. Wake up, only to find you got disconnected 47 minutes into the download

Could someone just transfer me the file (if you have it) through msn? My email is indiana6536@hotmail.com.

The Christian Church sez: Transfer Jack the Doom 3 Alpha file and Jesus will love you.

To play the demo:

Go to the console:

type:

map e3/e3_1
map e3/e3_2
map e3/e3_3

That will get you to the demo levels. If you want to watch the intro type:

map intro

Fairly simple. The above info should work, that's what I had to do to get mine to work.

How do you change the res, and stuff like that. As I am getting about 2fps on my P4 2.27 Gf2 mx200 512 MB Ram.

Yes, I know my video card is seriously underpowered, but my GF4 Ti46 is not getting along with my mb as of late.

IRCool, the r_mode [n] line from my tip above is the res selector:
r_mode 3 = 640x480
r_mode 4 = 800x600
r_mode 5 = 1024x768

but remember to remove the lines:
seta r_customHeight "486"
seta r_customWidth "720"

to make a sniper scope type thing for all guns type into console:

bind mouse2 "toggle g_fov 50 90"

90 is the standard viewing angle 50 is the zoomed.

Also, "g_noreload 1" means your gun never has to reload.

Some other fun things are "pm_jumpheight" (normal for this is 48), "g_gravity" (1066 = normal).

Also when making changes to video settings in console "vid_restart" will restart the video using the new settings without having to quit the game and start again.

I also get an error saying I need to shut down if the problem continues. What is going on!?!?

When I start up doom 3 everything is fine. I go to single player, than new game. It starts to load, then about 2 seconds later and error pops up saying it needs to shut down, and I should restart my computer if the problem continues. Can anyone help me out please? I have tried altering a few things in the doomconfig file, but that didn't work. This is really frustrating and I want to play this game more than anything. Has anyone else had this problem? Someone please help me!!!

Xtro, you are the shit. Finally a solid reference point to getting the alpha optimized, much props - I'm dying to get a taste of D3 but unfortunately after three days of downloading from Kazaa I try to run the damn thing and the self-extractor does not work (DOS box opens up for about 1/10 of a second, nothing happens - I wanted to scream). This should have self-extracted automatically, right?

the correct file is doom_iii.rar

try using Direct Connect, it's easy to find but you may have to search for som1 w/ a free slot
file size should be 364.09MB in direct connect

make sure you get the multifix patch as well (around 3MB), it's easy to find.

To Fat Lut:

The file is saved as a EXE, but is actually a compressed file with everything inside it. Some say it is a .rar file. Not sure. I Just opened it manually from a zip program(ie file open > select the doom_alpha > and open) and after a minute all the files showed up. Extract like normal.

PLEASE HELP......

I've posted this problem on every forum I found but nowone seems to know a solution!!!!!!!

I also know that some other people experience the same problem......

I downloaded the file 364mb something from KAzza...

I extracted it .. patched it but ehen I try to load doom.exe the game crashes before I eve see anything (except from the console).......

Does anyone knows why?????

MACHINE:
Cpu: Celeron :P
Ram: 256
VGA: Radeon 8500 128mb
Direct X 8.1

P.S.
Does Doom 3 nees DX 9??????

Hier ein paar Einstellungen :

Loading maps

From the console, use the following commands:
map e3/e3_1 - 3 (Loads first to threemap)
map fred/e3bathroom5 (doesn't work for most people)

Popular commands

FPS: com_drawfps 1

Bump Mapping on/off (try switching back and forth, you'll see the changes):
r_useStandardGL 0 (this turns bump mapping ON)
r_useStandardGL 1 (this turns bump mapping OFF)

Dynamic shadows on/off (BIG performance difference):
r_shadows 1
r_shadows 0

Changing resolution:
r_mode 1 (400x300)
r_mode 2 (512x384)
r_mode 3 (640x480)
r_mode 4 (800x600)
r_mode 5 (1024x768)
r_mode 6 (1152x864)
r_mode 7 (1280x1024)
NOTE: Changing resolution will not take effect until you either restart the game, or type vid_restart

Changing bit depth:
r_colorbits 16
r_colorbits 32

Fullscreen on/off:
r_fullscreen 1
r_fullscreen 0

Mouse Sensitivity:
sensitivity X
Where X is a number between 1 and 10. The default is 5....you can actually go higher than 10, but it gets kind of ridiculous.

Invert Mouse:
m_pitch -0.022
The default setting is m_pitch 0.022, all you need to do is add the negative sign.

Third Person view:
pm_thirdperson 0
pm_thirdperson 1

Cheats / Hints
The keycode for the pad in level 2 is "924"

The codes from Q3 are still in the game at this point, but if for some reason you aren't familiar with them, here's a quick list (again, these are typed from the console):
God mode: god
Extra health: give health
Weapons: give weapon_weaponname (e.g. rocket launcher, plasmagun...some of these will crash)
Fly through walls: noclip

Look for all you people who keep getting the dos screen.
First you must download a program called WinRAR.
Once you've downloaded it next right click the doom 3 file and hit extract.
After you extract the game go to http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Nov/bga20021104017125.htm.

There you will get all the info on how to run and where to download etc.

To Fat Lute:

you said you clicked on single player, then new game and it crashes right? Well since this is an alpha non of the menu actually works except "quit" you have to use the console for EVERYTHING. You can even quit from the console by typing quit. You must load each map from the console. hit the ~ key to pull down the console.
then type:

map e3/e3_1 for map one.
map e3/e3_2 for map 2. and
map e3/e3_3 for map 3.

Also you can play a demo of map one by typing:

playdemo activate_demo1

into the console. Also if you want to see the intro to the game type:

map e3/intro

the intro is pretty sweet although the sound is not in sinc on my machine for some reason.

Anyone else that is looking to tweak, did you know you can get grenades, the BFG, the rocket launcher, and the plasma gun in this alpha? Most are pulled from Quake and decals aren't set yet. You can also make it so that these wepons are included in the default weapons you spawn with. Also you can spawn enemies when in the game. You also can spawn the evil doctor that is shown in the intro. Working on spawing a couple of the other characters in the intro at the moment. Also if you alter some of the files you can change the speed at which your gun shoots, to change your pump shotgun to an auto possibly. If anyone wants some help with this stuff just let me know.

Cya and have fun

enjoy ;P
http://218.30.21.189:8080/doom3-demo.rar

Relic call IINET pay them some money get ADSL start download and come back after Home and Away and all is good!!!!

The Intro movie just seems to be the rotating id logo in my case. Or am I just not waiting long enough for the movie to start. Ideas anyone?

Diggs,
click.

Xtro, Are you saying the Logo is clickable? If so, sorry for the lame question. And thanks for your help.

Regards.

Bigfluff

Only BigGirls watch Home and Away. Sheesh.

you just have to click your mouse button and it should proceed

Thanks Xtro and Killabees13, the WinRAR worked great - that .exe extension had me messed up and the extractor I did try was useless. About the framerate issue that has spawned many questions; If it makes everyone else out there feel any better, I'm running an XP2200/Asus A7V8X/512MB 333MHz DDR RAM/Overclocked GeForce3 64MB DDR video card/RAID 0 x3 7200RPM drives and the framerate is still dropping to single digits during attacks in fullscreen mode with all the shit turned on, it gets pretty bad without cutting back on the settings or screen size. Anybody with an AGP 8X board and a Radeon 9700, please give us some scoop on the fps during battle, I'm wondering if the increased bandwidth and top card will make the alpha run that much better...

All I did was follow the 'helpful hints' at the top of this page and things got heaps better. Also I turned off the stupid XP theme and went back to Windows Classic look which saves a HEAP of ram.

After I did that, the sound in the intro movie was in synch and the framrate improved during game play. HDD lag was still a problem, especially when opening a door. But I only have 256 meg ram.

Also don't forget this is only v0.02 very early alpha code. It's amazing it runs as well as it does!

Pretty sure that all the major frame rate problems are related to loading during the action bits ,seems to be 512Mb is still not enough , if you let the enemy run around for a bit and than attack again the problem simply disappears ,pretty sure its meant to be running from ram only .I get very good frame rates on my comp xp1700/ti4200 ,certainly runs better than gta3 for example .

I can't get the @#$@# movie to play. I type "map e3/intro" and I get a rotating ID symbol. How do I get the Demo Movie to play!?! Please give exact keystrokes, I am so @#$@# frustrated.

Thanks

SERSCH SUKA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a Radeon 9700 with an a7v266-e motherboard and 512 pc2100 and a Athalon XP 2000+, and without shadows on, its as high as 65fps, but still goes to single digits when monsters attack. the shadows off help a little, and im running it at 1280x1024. i dont know if a 8x mb would help alot. but i cant wait for this game to actualy come out, looks like they just used this for the demo videos. i cant wait, this game is great! will dx9features improve performance for the r300? and im guessing the final version will render alot more effecient?

! C:\Program Files\Kazaa\My Shared Folder\doom3.e3-demo-alpha-leak.exe: CRC failed in Doom_III\base\sound\nin\intro\intro_5_1.LFE.wav. The file is corrupt

this is the one error i get when extracting the file should it matter? also i get no sound during the opening movie?

There is no sound in the movie that starts when you start up the game, it just leads up to the menu

i need the fixes for doom 3 demo, where can i find them?

or mail them to me at vtomadness@liquid-fire.org

When you get a rotating ID symbol after typing "map e3/intro" just press CTRL key to
skip the logo. The logo runs around 3-5 minutes before it actually plays the intro. Hope this might
help. >:-)

when i play doom3 my fps is 5 - 25!!!
I have geforce3ti 200 and 384 Mt SDram
so, i think that this alpha version is only fully compatible with radeon 9000 -series cards.
Does anyone know how i can get fps higher?
Where i can get fps patch or something like that? I tried to dowlonad fps patch from xbetas.com, but it says that "error 440 - file not found". PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!?!?!

Here is my computer info:

Processor: AMD Duron 1,2 GHz
Ram: 384 MT SDRAM
3D Card: Geforce3ti 200 (64 mt)

Anyone running a RADEON 9700 should head over to ATI's web site and download DirectX 9.0 and the newest driver for it. Iam running:
P4 2.53 on Intel D850EMV2
512 PC800
Radeon 9700
Raid 0 three Ultra ATA

I noticed a performance jump after I installed the new driver and DirectX 9.

PS.
Anyone running less than 512 Megabytes of Ram can forget about running the demo very well. I just Upgraded from 256 to 512 and the performance difference is considerable.

I am downloading from Kazaa right now. Hopefully it could work. But there is one thing i want to ask everybody, the file i have been downloading is .exe with the end not .rar i don't know is that right or not. the size is about 372833KB. can somebody help me please!!!!

Longest Thread Ever.

Longest Thread?

Not by a long way. Go back and look at the "UT Hero" page on the old EvEm site.
http://evem.org.au/bin/view/Home/UTgivesyoutheskillstobeatruehero

I downloaded from Kazaa this morning. but when i run it, it shows this error message.

The instruction at "0x0068de37" referenced memory at "0x0000001a". The memeory could not be "read".

is there anybody have the solution of it?? please help me!!! cheers!!!

Alex B i love you.. thanks for the link...

1% WOOOOooooooooooooo lmao

:) good ol cable *kicks it*

oh and... im sure this wont work.. for ever file above 200 meg i download is usually "corrupted" in some way.. i downloaded rallisport demo 9 times.. 216 X 9 = how many meg i downloaded in a 3 hour period...

just would not install :(

Ok, I've followed the directions for loading the game and avoiding the crash. Here's my problem, I try the map e3/e3_1, or map e3/e3_2 ect. into the log with ~. Only thing is, it still crashes. Any ideas on what to do?

Alex B thnx for that link. dl'd in record time - only 2 hrs :)

I have a AMD 2200+, 2.5GB 333Mhz DDR, MSI KT4ULTRA 8X AGP, 80bg HD with 8Mb cache, Radeon 9700 Pro 128, and the game runs crystal, im at about 82 fps with no monsters and 56 with, and thats with everything turned up... the game is kinda glichy in areas though but it is an alpha version. game looks great thanks to the guys at ID.

After I extracted all the files with winrar I clicked on the the Doom icon you would click to play the game, but it keeps performing an "illegal operation". Anyone know what the problem might be?

When i get into the game. One the first level after that be guy walks past put does not die. and i go in the door and i get a blank screen and a error saying

"idSessionLocal::StopRecordingDemo: not recording"

I can still fire the weapons but thats all. It also happens on other levels. Any help?

to 'me'. i think thats just the way the 'demo' is. does it to me too.

hey people, can some one help me, i get this message in the 2nd doom window,

Not available.
WARNING: vertex array range in virtual memory (SLOW)
idVertexCache: allocated 96468992 megs of virtual memory
regenerating _default.
regenerating _white.
regenerating _black.
regenerating _flat.
regenerating _ambient.
regenerating _ramp.
regenerating _alphaRamp.
regenerating _alphaNotch.
regenerating _threshold.
regenerating _fog.
regenerating _fogEnter.
regenerating _normalCubeMap.
regenerating _noFalloff.
regenerating _quadratic.
regenerating _scratch.
regenerating _scratchCubeMap.
idPacketServer::Kill: server thread not active
********************
ERROR: GL_SelectTexture: unit = 1
********************
Error during initialization

then the one that the game should be running in is all grey..

also when extrating the .rar the fallowing files are currupt:

doomIII/base/textures/base_wall/gotgimwall_d.tga

doomIII/base/textures/base_wall/gotgimwall_local.tga

doomIII/base/textures/base_wall/r2panel_b.tga

doomIII/base/sound/nin/hellknight_end/hellknight_ambience/hellnightambLOOPRight.wav

could that have somthing to do with it?
if so could someone send me the files since i would think they would be fairly small?
thanks for the help!

Radiant MFC Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Any ideas? I can't even get the console to start.

Got it running pretty sweet, jusy got a new comp after many an hour trying to get it to run on a p3 500 got a p4 2.6 512, GeForce 4 SE its running at about 25 - 30 fps at the mo, fiddled with the config its gonna be a classic man, if anyone knows any good configas to get it up to the 50s post a shout

stealth tengu I got the same. But I got the fix and put that stuff in and now I get past it inly to a white screen.

if anyones finding that their system is slow after playin doom 3 them CTR+ALT+DEL and go to end process. there should be an entry for doom3(youll see it takes up a lot of space!) just end the process and your system should clear up without havin to reeboot.

I just got the alpha leak from kazaa & used winrar, it starts up great :). The problem, though, is the ID intro loops over and over, i never even get to the menu with single player, multiplayer & such (yes i know i don't need to use those). But when i hit ~ to access the console, the game IMMEDIATELY freezes & the computer has to reboot. I think this could be because i have a horribly old gfx card (ati rage 128 pro.....radeon 9700's under the tree though). Could anyone tell me how to fix this problem or is it just my card can't handle it? Thanks a lot

ReLBadBoy15 - I think it's your card. Oh well no matter, you have your Radeon now anyway. :D Lucky bugger.

I'd absoloutely love Alex B to rehost that file.... hmmm, come one - please! It is Christmas! I need a copy, my firewall prevents me from getting it from eDonkey/eMule and Kazaa has got to be the least reliable dowlnload source ever!!!

PLEASE, and Merry Christmas to All

Hey it's me again, complete with 9700 pro now :). I wanted to say the problem evidently WAS with my card. Now the console no longer freezes and the game plays and looks spectacular. Something i found was, at least on my system, changing "standard opengl" to "1" in doomconfig makes things slightly faster, but looks HORRIBLE and all models are really blocky. I haven't seen actual numbers but i'd say it's playing on the average at about 40-65 fps. And for some reason, it hardly slows down at all when monsters attack me, except for imps.

My specs are:

1.9 Ghz P4
384 megs DDR 2100
Radeon 9700 Pro

Anyway, i'll try to play around and see what gives me the best results. TTYL guys :)

Well I finally found that .rar file! However, there's no bloody exe! All the files are there, sounds, cfgs etc, but no bloody exe. If somebody could email me just the .exe file I would be the most grateful guy EVER.

For anyone who's still looking, and like me, can't connect to eDonkey it's availible on Kazaa as a 381,000kb file, i had an avg download speed of about 15kbps, but there's one more source out there now...

AAhhhh!!! Where can I DL this???

u can get this file off of kazza 376 megs no exe file just 2x click on the doom icon takes u in. It will say on win rar extraction 3 files are corrupt but the demo will still work. Just copy a sound file and rename it as the corrupt one ....(you get the idea) and open the maps in the command prompt with the ~ key.
G/L
Ps delete the doom cfg file

I am using a Athlon XP 1.8 with a Radeon 9700 pro and 256 mb.
I am using cacheman to help with the 256 mb limit.
Does anyone have the link for the 4 doom patches? Even in Kazaaa I can´t found it.

Hammm..forget running Doom3 on WinXP with 256 MB.
Try Using Win2000 with Cacheman enabled and proper configured.
I am preparing a cacheman profile for Doom3.

HERE IS THE ULTIMATE DOOM 3 ALPHA GUIDE WALKTHROUGH (GETTING IT AND OPTIMIZING IT)

1. DL doom_iii.rar from Kazza (could take days (Hour wise on a 56k)) this file is exactly
372,834 KB which = 372 MBS (don’t DL any other supposable doom 3 files they
could be possibly a fake doom 3 alpha)

2. DL the Doom 3 alpha fix patch called D3_Perfromance_fiX.rar
(Got it from Edonkey p2p can get it at Kazza too I think)

3. Once you unzip the doom_iii.rar, it will probably say 3 files are corrupt 1 texture file
and 2 sound files. (This happened to me) these files once unzipped the 3 bad ones will
not be unzipped so u will not have them in the doom 3 directory you unzipped all to. 1
work around is to find the 1 texture file name that was bad and go to the good files in
the doom 3 directory and copy to desktop a good one and rename it to the corrupt file
then copy it back to the proper directory. Do this to all 3 corrupt files.

4. Once the above is all done you can delete you DoomConfig file (this will be
wre-written once doom 3 is started and be kind of optimized for your system I found)

5. My system is a AMD 1800 XP (1.53 GHz) with 512 ram and a Geforce 2 Ultra with
the following
Configuration I get from 20-50 FPS.

You can copy the following lines this is the doomcfg file and paste it over you current
One for ultra optimization (remember this is based off of my system hardware you may
Have to tweak it a little its running in 1024X168 res 32 bit texture anitrioscopic on full
Screen, dynamic shadows off. (The meaning of the doomcfg lines are in the above
Threads above mine so I will not repeat them).

Doomcfg (don’t copy this line)

unbindall
bind ENTER "_button2"
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind SPACE "_moveup"
bind + "sizeup"
bind - "sizedown"
bind / "weapnext"
bind 0 "weapon 10"
bind 1 "weapon 1"
bind 2 "weapon 2"
bind 3 "weapon 3"
bind 4 "weapon 4"
bind 5 "weapon 5"
bind 6 "weapon 6"
bind 7 "weapon 7"
bind 8 "weapon 8"
bind 9 "weapon 9"
bind = "sizeup"
bind [ "weapprev"
bind \ "_mlook"
bind ] "weapnext"
bind _ "sizedown"
bind a "_left"
bind c "_movedown"
bind d "_right"
bind s "_back"
bind w "_forward"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind PAUSE "pause"
bind UPARROW "_forward"
bind DOWNARROW "_back"
bind LEFTARROW "_moveleft"
bind RIGHTARROW "_moveright"
bind ALT "_strafe"
bind CTRL "_attack"
bind SHIFT "_speed"
bind DEL "_lookdown"
bind PGDN "_lookup"
bind END "centerview"
bind F11 "screenshot"
bind MOUSE1 "_attack"
bind MOUSE2 "_strafe"
bind MOUSE3 "_zoom"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapnext"
bind MWHEELUP "weapprev"
seta in_mouse "1"
seta s_cacheSize "16"
seta s_cacheAlwaysLoad "0"
seta s_rrAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rlAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_lfeAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_frAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_flAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_minPassTap "0.075"
seta s_stopBand "22050"
seta s_passBand "14000"
seta s_wallReflection "0.3"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_volume_dB "0"
seta s_linearFalloff "1"
seta s_FXChannelReturnVolume "0"
seta s_reverbTime "0"
seta s_reverbPercentage "20"
seta s_roomAcoustics "1"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_reverse "0"
seta g_flashlight_shader "lights/flashlight3"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_y "0.25"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_x "0.33"
seta g_flashlight_bob_y "2"
seta g_flashlight_bob_x "2"
seta g_flashlight_y "-17"
seta g_flashlight_x "10"
seta g_flashlight_lag "0.1"
seta g_flashlight_maxangle "22.0"
seta r_exportmd5 "1"
seta com_drawhud "1"
seta g_showGun "1"
seta g_showcamerainfo "0"
seta g_logSync "0"
seta g_log "games.log"
seta g_maxGameClients "0"
seta sv_maxclients "8"
seta name "UnnamedPlayer"
seta com_maxfps "0"
seta r_useFence "1"
seta vid_ypos "0"
seta vid_xpos "0"
seta m_smooth "1"
seta m_side "0.25"
seta m_forward "0.25"
seta m_yaw "0.022"
seta m_pitch "0.022"
seta sensitivity "5"
seta cl_pitchspeed "140"
seta cl_yawspeed "140"
seta com_drawfps "1"
seta r_varmegs "92"
seta net_socksPassword ""
seta net_socksUsername ""
seta net_socksPort "1080"
seta net_socksServer ""
seta net_socksEnabled "0"
seta r_mergeShadows "0"
seta image_maxPreload "0"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_compressBump "1"
seta image_compressSpecular "1"
seta image_compressDiffuse "1"
seta image_depth "0"
seta image_roundDown "1"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_anisotropy "1"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta r_shadowMapBias "0"
seta r_specular "1"
seta r_debugLineWidth "1"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "0"
seta r_useStandardGL "1"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "0"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "0"
seta r_gammaScale "1"
seta r_gammaBias "0"
seta r_stepGamma5 "16"
seta r_stepGamma4 "32"
seta r_stepGamma3 "196"
seta r_stepGamma2 "64"
seta r_stepGamma1 "128"
seta r_brightness "1"
seta r_gamma "1"
seta r_swapInterval "0"
seta r_customHeight "486"
seta r_customWidth "720"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "5"
seta r_multiSamples "0"
seta r_stereo "0"
seta r_depthbits "24"
seta r_stencilbits "8"
seta r_colorbits "32"
seta r_ext_vertex_array_range "1"
seta r_ext_texture_env_combine "1"
seta r_ext_texture_edge_clamp "1"
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "0"
seta r_ext_compress_textures "0"

And that’s it just remember to paste it to the doomcfg file in the base directory of doom3 and you will be good to go.
I am amazed how well this alpha runs at such its early stage it can only get better and the graphics are definitely the price of admission coupled with the scary atmosphere and surprises on the way!!!

Good Luck and happy Fragging,
Jake

I sit here reading all you complain about your fps. All you have to remember first off this is an illegal copy of a game still being designed. DOOM III will be due out Christmas 2003. By that time they're will be DX10 and comps will be running GeforceFX 256, and running Pentium V 4.33 ghz with IDE 133. So my point is stop complaining about your fps at the moment the official demo should be released this summer. You should all understand this isn't an official demo its a tool for video card manufacturers like Nvidia and ATI (cough) to benchmark the game using they're new video cards and cards due to come out this year. It's also an early version of the E3 beta that was shown at E3. I'm sure some of you knew that already but this 'alpha' version is the first build for the game so don't expect much. Expect a lot at this years E3. We won't let you down...

-did-

I sit here reading all you complain about your fps. All you have to remember first off this is an illegal copy of a game still being designed. DOOM III will be due out Christmas 2003. By that time they're will be DX10 and comps will be running GeforceFX 256, and running Pentium V 4.33 ghz with IDE 133. So my point is stop complaining about your fps at the moment the official demo should be released this summer. You should all understand this isn't an official demo its a tool for video card manufacturers like Nvidia and ATI (cough) to benchmark the game using they're new video cards and cards due to come out this year. It's also an early version of the E3 beta that was shown at E3. I'm sure some of you knew that already but this 'alpha' version is the first build for the game so don't expect much. Expect a lot at this years E3. You won't let you down...

-did-

Actually, Doom 3 is due out summer. :D

And besides, optimisation of performance for the consumer hasn't even been started yet, so if you manage to get Doom 3 running at all, it should be running even better when it's released. That's what i heard anyway.

Well I sit here and read the above threads and find out what i thought all along has been always true. Its all in the programming. What i mean is if the code is worked enough ie good programers and its in their intrest they can make a game like doom 3 run on a 1 gig machine basic 64 mb card and 512 ram get 60+ FPS if it is in thier intrest! But of course it isnt other companies i bet are in a sort of kahoots (sorry spelling :P) with the software companies for example Intel or Nvidia are pushing a nivida FX 256 card soon or whatever card they give perks money etc. to software companies if they make the game run good on a certian level of card and processor example unreal tourney 2k3 runs optimumly and perfers nvida video cards like in the intro (you know what i mean) so my point is really if the software companies out there want a program to run smooth and good on a basic 1 gig system they can.
ITS ALL IN THE PROGRAMING
Jakey

Hey I dont konw what a lot of the stuff you guys are saying here means...im looking for some more concrete answers on how to make this thing run. I already figured out that it has to be .rar and be extracted, but then I get the same error as everyone else. Where exactly do i have to go in the file to change things to make this game run? any help out there?

I tried to use the directions i found at http://doomiii.tv/ and they seem to work, but after about a minute of the game loading there is a program error which states "doom.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. you will need to restart the program". I used Kazaa to get the file i used, but im wondering if there is anywhere else I might be able to obtain this file again? also, any ideas on why this error may have occured?

Hello boys. Plain and simple :

Extracted .rar file from KaZaa.
Copied new performance files.
Clicked on DOOM icon to load game.
A blue console type thing appeared, it scrolled down a list of instructions.. it completed.
Goes to a black screen.. goes to a grey screen. Stays at the grey screen.
Forever.
No intro, no menu.

What in the name of good gamers everywhere am I doing wrong ? That is all.

Help is much appreciative.

~ T

Hello

I have some problems with the sound in the Doom 3 Demo . Ill can play it but there is no sound . Is there any command for the console or the config to activate the sound???

For everyone having trouble with the Doom III alpha...

You need to get the Doom III alpha, its easiest to get it off EDonkey or Kazaa. It will be the one that is about 370 MB. When you get that flash of a DOS prompt, you need to get a WINRAR extracter. http://www.winrar.com (duh.)

Extract the files into the directory you want to play the game from. Start the game, when the id opening starts do not skip it!

Instead...
Hit ~ on your keyboard to bring up the cmnd prompt
The following commands bring up levels:
map e3/e3_1 (map 1)
map e3/e3_2 (map 2)
map e3/e3_3 (map 3)
map e3/intro (intro video shown at e3 by carmack)

The game will have some compatibility issues of course, because it isnt meant to be in the hands of consumers yet. DoomLord, if you are having trouble, try deleting the doomconfig file.

This is a trixsy business, playing Alphas. Hope you guys have a beast of a system. Expect slowdown no matter what you are running this monster on.

I am having the same problem as adjacentaxis. Follow all instructions that come with, run it and it gets all the way to grey screen and nothing else. Any ideas?

ok I have got that Doom 3 Alfa game and I have been playing it on my system.
I have a:
Pentium 4 1.8GHz
256MB DDR Ram
Ge-Force ti 200
Sound Blaster 5.1 Live
DVD-Rom
Win XP Pro.

I can run the game just fine. but at times the FPS drop alot.

I here people on here talking about a patch for the game or some thing that makes the game run a little better. Where do I get this patch or what ever it is called? people say kazaa. Ok cool, but what do I type in to search for it???

is there anything I can do to make the game run better??? can someone explain to me what I have to do. I am no computer nerd so please explain it to me a little clearer. thanks so much. :)

Paul i listed the d3 alpha file speed up in the above thread the long one in clear english type it in. the search engine of kazza or edonkey.
Once again (paul) the performance fix is titled
D3_Perfromance_fiX.rar
also this link has links to doom 3 alpha files http://doomiii.tv/
plus this other one will give u the file extractor winrar if you dont have it allready
http://www.winrar.com/

OK U GUYS GOT DOOM 3 ALPHA TO WORK HERES HOW U DO IT.

Multiplayer
FIRST OFF!!! THIS IS AN ALPHA, AND THERE ARE MANY MANY MANY UNFINISHED PARTS!!! THIS INCLUDES THE MULTIPLAYER, SO THERE ARE MANY MANY MANY LIMITATIONS!!!

First off, before you are told how to play multiplayer, here are some of the limitations:

1) Only the Pistol works, using any other weapon, kills the client connection.

2) Player animations are NOT finished!!! So the players look funny walking around the rooms "stiff"

3) None of the E3_x maps have Deathmatch starting points by default, So you will need to edit them,
or download pre-edited maps, and add them into your base/maps/ directory accordingly.

4) IF there are any mosters on the level, there is a very good chance when they attack one
of the players, and or kill one (or are killed) It will kick off the client connection.
This means, you will also have to have an edited map that includes no monsters!

5) So If you are playing an edited map, BOTH PLAYED MUST HAVE THE SAME REVISION MAP!

6) If the client player kills the host player, it will usually end the server connection,
This means GAME OVER, time to start a new server, and reconnect!

OK, now that you know the limitations, here is how to start a server, conenct to the server
and some techinfo & notes. keep in mind THIS WILL WORK BEST ON A LAN!

To be (start) a server, bring down the console, and type:
"spawnserver mapname" //(ie. "spawnserver empty")

next, goto the client computer, and type:
"connect computername" //("connect windows_computer_name")

Now, this will work fine for the LAN, but if you want to connect over the internet,
it gets allot more tricky. SINCE THIS IS AN ALPHA, the connect command does not recognize
ip addresses as a valid parameter. BUT, there are ways around this. ;)
1) Make sure the computer you are connecting to has a internet DNS name, and then type:
"connect mydomain.com"

2) Second methed, edit your local windows hosts file to point to the ipaddress of the DooM ]|[ server.
To edit Your windows hosts file type the following line in the "Start -> Run" command:
notepad %windir%system32driversetchosts

at the bottom of this file, you will see the following line:
127.0.0.1 localhost

You will need to add a line below that one telling the computer where the DooM ]|[ server is,
something like this:
123.123.123.123 doom3server

Except, you would use the real ip address of the server you are going to connect to.
Now, from the client computers doom console you would type:
"connect doom3server"

Thats it! you should be connecting!!!
However, if you have a firewall router setep, you will need to open the following ports:
27973 UDP
27974 UDP

NOW ON TO A WORKING MULTIPLAYER MAP!!!
if you have the jk_v01_e3_2.zip edited e3_2 map file, extract the e3_2.map file into your
"doom_iii/base/maps/e3" directory.
BEFORE YOU DO THIS BACKUP THE EXISTING E3_2.MAP FILE!!!!!
you can download the file here: www.ushells.net/~pwone/jk_v01_e3_2.zip
or here: http://paradoxi.net/~prh134/jk_v01_e3_2.zip

SOME NOTES ON THIS MAP:
It has had all the monsters taken out!
It has had 2 Deathmatch starting points added into it!

It has a few issues when you are playing it:
1) The cutscene is still there, so the first time a player walks over the trigger,
both players will have to watch the cutscene.
2) The door is locked, so one player will have to unlock it for the other player,
after that its DeathMatch TIME!!! (the Doorkey is 9-2-4 if you didn't already know)

Thats it!!! have fun!
JAKEY

I got D3 from www.packetnews.com
good version, not corrupted all I had to do was uncompress it with WinRar and play, sounds mad in surround but appears to have a horrible memory leak, gets slower the more I use it. What does chacheman do and where can I get it.

Specs
P4 2.4Gz
Geforce4 ti128
512Mb DDR
win Xp

I've installed the doom3 alpha version. My system is a Duron 1.3ghz 256 ddr ram Geforce2 Mx400 64mb. Will it run on this ? and if so what do i have to do to it to make it run ?

Thanks

DOn't worry, it should run ok - my system is a P4 1Ghz 256 RDRAM and Geforce 4 MX (all of which I plan to upgrade in time for Doom 3). Just gotta optimise it by following the instructions given and advice from everyone here.

Kage_Prototype : Could you email me your doom.cfg file ? Also i load the intro map and i get no sound. help ?

Enjoy! :D

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unbindall
bind ENTER "enter"
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind SPACE "_moveup"
bind + "sizeup"
bind - "sizedown"
bind / "weapnext"
bind 0 "weapon 10"
bind 1 "weapon 1"
bind 2 "weapon 2"
bind 3 "weapon 3"
bind 4 "weapon 4"
bind 5 "weapon 5"
bind 6 "weapon 6"
bind 7 "weapon 7"
bind 8 "weapon 8"
bind 9 "weapon 9"
bind = "sizeup"
bind [ "weapprev"
bind \ "_mlook"
bind ] "weapnext"
bind _ "sizedown"
bind a "_moveleft"
bind c "_movedown"
bind d "_moveright"
bind s "_back"
bind w "_forward"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind PAUSE "pause"
bind UPARROW "_forward"
bind DOWNARROW "_back"
bind LEFTARROW "_moveleft"
bind RIGHTARROW "_moveright"
bind ALT "_strafe"
bind CTRL "_movedown"
bind SHIFT "_speed"
bind DEL "reload"
bind PGDN "_lookup"
bind END "flashlight"
bind F1 "testlight"
bind F2 "poplight"
bind F3 "spawn_monster_zombie_fat_ragdoll"
bind F5 "spawn_monster_demon_imp"
bind F6 "spawn_monster_demon_pinky"
bind F7 "give_weapon_shotgun"
bind F8 "give_weapon_machinegun"
bind F9 "god"
bind F10 "give ammo"
bind F11 "screenshot"
bind MOUSE1 "_attack"
bind MOUSE2 "_moveup"
bind MOUSE3 "_zoom"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapnext"
bind MWHEELUP "weapprev"
seta in_mouse "1"
seta s_cacheSize "32"
seta s_cacheAlwaysLoad "1"
seta s_rrAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rlAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_lfeAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_frAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_flAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_minPassTap "0.075"
seta s_stopBand "22050"
seta s_passBand "14000"
seta s_wallReflection "0.3"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_volume_dB "0"
seta s_linearFalloff "1"
seta s_FXChannelReturnVolume "0"
seta s_reverbTime "0"
seta s_reverbPercentage "20"
seta s_roomAcoustics "1"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_reverse "0"
seta g_flashlight_shader "lights/flashlight2"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_y "0.25"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_x "0.33"
seta g_flashlight_bob_y "2"
seta g_flashlight_bob_x "2"
seta g_flashlight_y "-17"
seta g_flashlight_x "10"
seta g_flashlight_lag "0.1"
seta g_flashlight_maxangle "22.0"
seta r_exportmd5 "1"
seta com_drawhud "1"
seta g_showGun "1"
seta g_showcamerainfo "0"
seta g_logSync "0"
seta g_log "games.log"
seta g_maxGameClients "0"
seta sv_maxclients "8"
seta name "UnnamedPlayer"
seta com_maxfps "0"
seta r_useFence "1"
seta vid_ypos "22"
seta vid_xpos "3"
seta m_smooth "1"
seta m_side "0.25"
seta m_forward "0.25"
seta m_yaw "0.022"
seta m_pitch "0.022"
seta sensitivity "10"
seta cl_pitchspeed "140"
seta cl_yawspeed "140"
seta com_drawfps "0"
seta r_varmegs "192"
seta net_socksPassword ""
seta net_socksUsername ""
seta net_socksPort "1080"
seta net_socksServer ""
seta net_socksEnabled "0"
seta r_mergeShadows "0"
seta image_maxPreload "0"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_compressBump "1"
seta image_compressSpecular "1"
seta image_compressDiffuse "1"
seta image_depth "0"
seta image_roundDown "1"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_anisotropy "1"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta r_shadowMapBias "0"
seta r_specular "1"
seta r_debugLineWidth "1"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "0"
seta r_useStandardGL "1"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "0"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "1"
seta r_gammaScale "1"
seta r_gammaBias "0"
seta r_stepGamma5 "16"
seta r_stepGamma4 "32"
seta r_stepGamma3 "196"
seta r_stepGamma2 "64"
seta r_stepGamma1 "128"
seta r_brightness "1"
seta r_gamma "3"
seta r_swapInterval "0"
seta r_customHeight "486"
seta r_customWidth "720"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "3"
seta r_multiSamples "0"
seta r_stereo "0"
seta r_depthbits "24"
seta r_stencilbits "8"
seta r_colorbits "32"
seta r_ext_vertex_array_range "1"
seta r_ext_texture_env_combine "1"
seta r_ext_texture_edge_clamp "1"
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "0"
seta r_ext_compress_textures "0"

--------------------------------------------------

I beleive the intro somtimes doesn't work properly with sound on some machines. I'm not sure how to fix this, but it works alright on my machine (albeit a bit out of sync).

Hi can anyone please tell me how can I play the intro level of the alpha?

KAge, you gave a Config File, I"m wondering, do you just go in the original Config file delete whats in it, and replace it with your version?

Astroth, type into console,
map e3/intro

I've been working on changing the controls to that of generic Half life and the F1-F7 keys spwn monsters (some may not work) including the evil scientist from the intro, he wont do anything but is "alive" and solid until he is shot ehough to "die" and you can walk through him.
Copy and paste this into Doomconfig

unbindall
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind SPACE "_moveup"
bind 0 "weapon 10"
bind 1 "weapon 1"
bind 2 "weapon 2"
bind 3 "weapon 3"
bind 4 "weapon 4"
bind 5 "weapon 5"
bind 6 "weapon 6"
bind 7 "weapon 7"
bind 8 "weapon 8"
bind 9 "weapon 9"
bind O "toggle r_shadows"
bind P "toggle r_playershadow 0"
bind [ "weapprev"
bind ] "weapnext"
bind a "_moveleft"
bind CTRL "_movedown"
bind d "_moveright"
bind p "pm_stamina 0"
bind q "give weapon_machinegun"
bind r "reload"
bind s "_back"
bind t "messagemode"
bind w "_forward"
bind z "toggle cg_fov 90 20"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind PAUSE "pause"
bind DOWNARROW "_back"
bind LEFTARROW "_left"
bind RIGHTARROW "_right"
bind ALT "_strafe"
bind SHIFT "_speed"
bind HOME "exec doomtim.cfg"
bind END "centerview"
bind F1 "spawn monster_zombie_fat"
bind F2 "spawn monster_zombie_commando_cgun"
bind F3 "spawn monster_demon_pinky"
bind F4 "spawn monster_demon_imp"
bind F5 "spawn monster_demon_hellknight"
bind F6 "spawn monster_ghostskull_ghostskull"
bind F7 "spawn char_scientist1"
bind F9 "noclip"
bind F10 "god"
bind F11 "notarget"
bind F12 "give all"
bind KP_HOME "testlight lights/blamplight"
bind KP_UPARROW "testlight lights/brucedemo2"
bind KP_PGUP "testlight lights/duolight01"
bind KP_LEFTARROW "testlight lights/floorgrate"
bind KP_5 "testlight lights/floorvent01"
bind KP_RIGHTARROW "testlight lights/floorvent01x"
bind KP_END "testlight lights/grate4"
bind KP_DOWNARROW "testlight lights/mlight01"
bind KP_PGDN "testlight lights/spot01drk"
bind KP_MINUS "poplight"
bind KP_PLUS "testlight lights/squarelight1"
bind MOUSE1 "_attack"
bind MOUSE2 "toggle g_fov 50 90"
bind MOUSE3 "weapnext"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapprev"
bind MWHEELUP "weapnext"
seta com_drawfps "1"
seta cl_yawspeed "140"
seta cl_pitchspeed "140"
seta sensitivity "5"
seta m_pitch ".022"
seta m_yaw "0.022"
seta m_forward "0.25"
seta m_side "0.25"
seta m_smooth "1"
seta vid_xpos "109"
seta vid_ypos "36"
seta r_useFence "1"
seta com_maxfps "0"
seta name "Willits"
seta sv_maxclients "8"
seta g_maxGameClients "0"
seta g_log "games.log"
seta g_logSync "0"
seta g_showcamerainfo "0"
seta g_showGun "1"
seta com_drawhud "1"
seta r_exportmd5 "0"
seta g_flashlight_maxangle "22.0"
seta g_flashlight_lag "0.1"
seta g_flashlight_x "10"
seta g_flashlight_y "-17"
seta g_flashlight_bob_x "2"
seta g_flashlight_bob_y "2"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_x "0.33"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_y "0.25"
seta g_flashlight_shader "lights/flashlight3"
seta s_reverse "0"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_roomAcoustics "1"
seta s_reverbPercentage "20"
seta s_reverbTime "0"
seta s_FXChannelReturnVolume "0"
seta s_linearFalloff "1"
seta s_volume_dB "0"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_wallReflection "0.3"
seta s_passBand "14000"
seta s_stopBand "22050"
seta s_minPassTap "0.075"
seta s_flAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_frAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_lfeAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rlAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rrAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cacheAlwaysLoad "1"
seta s_cacheSize "16"
seta in_mouse "1"
seta r_varmegs "92"
seta net_socksPassword ""
seta net_socksUsername ""
seta net_socksPort "1080"
seta net_socksServer ""
seta net_socksEnabled "0"
seta r_mergeShadows "0"
seta image_maxPreload "0"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_compressBump "1"
seta image_compressSpecular "1"
seta image_compressDiffuse "1"
seta image_depth "0"
seta image_roundDown "1"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_anisotropy "0"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta r_shadowMapBias "0"
seta r_specular "1"
seta r_debugLineWidth "1"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "0"
seta r_useStandardGL "1"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "1"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "1"
seta r_gammaScale "1"
seta r_gammaBias "0"
seta r_stepGamma5 "16"
seta r_stepGamma4 "32"
seta r_stepGamma3 "196"
seta r_stepGamma2 "64"
seta r_stepGamma1 "128"
seta r_brightness "1"
seta r_gamma "1"
seta r_swapInterval "1"
seta r_customHeight "486"
seta r_customWidth "720"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "5"
seta r_multiSamples "0"
seta r_stereo "0"
seta r_depthbits "24"
seta r_stencilbits "8"
seta r_colorbits "32"
seta r_ext_vertex_array_range "1"
seta r_ext_texture_env_combine "1"
seta r_ext_texture_edge_clamp "1"
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "0"
seta r_ext_compress_textures "0"

have fun

Just out of curiousity doesn anyone know what beast of a machine id ran this alpha on at e3 ? A link would be nice

Cheers.

IIRC it had 1GB of RAM and an ATI 9700 Pro

IIRC wtf is that ?

Blackhawk, obviously you didn't understand what I talked about. When I said to play the intro I meant to play IN the intro like all the other 3 levels. I know I can somehow play in the game but I don't know how... Anyone who knows?

And something else... Can anyone post the spawn commands of the models that work? I need only the ones that work

Thank you...

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ERROR: RegisterFont: couldn't load FreeType code fonts/fontImage_16.dat

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How can I fix this error ?

Just some info for people that try unraring the kazaa exe file of doom3 (about 372833mb?). If you have an older version of winrar... it won't work. You need the newest ver. of it or else you will get a crapload of errors from it trying to extract it ;). My friend had this problem and I had to smack him around a bit ;D cheers*

I downloaded the file from kazaa and unpacked it using winrar. I then double click the executable file and initially everything appears to be working, but then I get the error message "Unable to initialize OpenGL". What is going wrong.

Silverskin: It sounds like a problem with your videocard. Update the drivers by looking for the card type and manufacturer and downloading the appropiate ones (in case you didn't know how). If it stil occurs, it must be a config file problem or your video card is not strong enough to handle Doom 3. What video card do you have?

TC: Yeah, I posted the entire config file, just replace the old content with that stuff.

I updated my driver and it has improved some things, like now I can render multi textures when I used to get an error.

But I still can't run Doom3. Oh well, not a great surprize really, my specs aren't great: P3 1GHz, 384MB RAM and a.... er..... 16MB on board graphics card.

I was hoping to maybe run the game very slowly, but it wasn't to be. Thanks for the help anyway.

Ouch 16MB. Best upgrade that soon, it isn't expensive to beat 16MB. :D The rest of your specs are fine, mine are similar. (1GHz P4, 256 RDRAM).

Hi People..
FORGET RUNNING DOOM3 WITHOUT A RADEON 9700 PRO 128 DRR..
Off course you can play the game with anyother card.. but the visual will not be impressive!
Forget using StandardGl.. use Nv20 por Radeon 9700 PRO to get the best graphics!(the performance too).
I am using Sued´s cacheman scripts for a 256DDR system. Oahmmmmm the games run preatty good.
Even with a 512MB DDR system you WIL NOT HAVE THE CLICHES that the game demonstrate in this alpha Version. This game is not tweaked to use segmentend memory footprint. you must do this by 3rd party programs.

Fred: wtf? It should look amasing and play FINE with Geforce 3 and above. Hell, with a gEforce 2, if you have a good enough system, should be able to run Doom 3 at a playable rate (coming from experience). Anything below 32MB will not run the game.

OK, judging from innumerous plays, and other people's accounts on loads of forums, I've devised a minimum spec list for the alpha. These are the minimum to play this alpha at a reasonable rate.

1 Ghz Pentium 4/Athlon (1.4 or better preferred)
128MB RAM (256 or better preferred)
32MB Video Card (OpenGL support) (128MB GeForce 4/Radeon 9700 preferred)

Hope that heps people. :D

Astroth, you didn'tead the bind list right, these are the spawn commands for the fat zombie, chaingun commando zombie, pinky, Imp and hellknight, they all work.

bind F1 "spawn monster_zombie_fat"
bind F2 "spawn monster_zombie_commando_cgun"
bind F3 "spawn monster_demon_pinky"
bind F4 "spawn monster_demon_imp"
bind F5 "spawn monster_demon_hellknight"

Ill work on playing the intro it should be a valid map but not very playable, everything is not designed to interact with a player, try manually loading all of the textures and models in the intro initialisation file.

Blackhawk, first thank you for the spawn commands. :D

I don't really know how to manually load all of the textures and models in the intro initialisation file so I would be grateful if you could tell me step by step what to do...

that good we know we can get it on kazza but with some corupt file i got 3 file exactly corupt
and when i start the game and open the console i type
map e3/e3_1 the game load but after a couple of time the console open up again with this msg
def/main.script error
i don't even have a def folder in doomIII
holy fuck someone help me start this alpha demo pPLZPLZPLZLZ

Here is the best site i have seen with help info on how to run game...btw grab the patch that lets you play game on previous page.

http://www.techconnect.nl/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=421&page=4

Np Astroth, actually I am still working out how to manually load stuff and use the editing commands in general (Blushes) and was thinking you might know how, anyhoo, I'll post whatever I work out.

Ok blackhawk, thank you ;)

Ok anyone that can't get it to work right u gotta get a fix which will give u working exe's and stuff to make it work right just search for it in kazaa. Not sure if anyone mentioened this but to add lights use the numpad keys for different lights. Thanks for the guide.

I PERFECT running DOOM3 without any fix on:

AthlonXP 1.8
512 PC2700(at 166)
Asus A7n8x-dx
Radeon 9700 Pro
Windows2000

Look.. all the patch stuff..make the visual quality to decrease..

Zondor: Yeah, but's that 'cause you've got a kick-ass system. I envy you.

And the patch wil make it run faster for lower spec machines, even though it looks worse.

I downloaded from Kazaa but it was the 364meg not the 372meg. The 364meg version has no doom.exe file (doh!). Can anyone tell me the size of the file or send "just" the doom.exe file? Much appreciated.

I don´t think it is worth to run the leaked version with any performance(in cost of graphics) patch released. (I am preparing a performance patch with out any graphic decrease)
Why not considering upgrade?

I am doing some binary hack into the doom.exe.
I am manage to enable others hidden features that Carmarck through that was not good enough(performance).
Wait for me....

ALRIGHT< iv herd enuf, for godz sake ppl, i got d3 alpha version, it runs semi alright on my 2.4 but not realli, iv been following all ur goddamn directions and they have not dun a thing so yeh.. im pri pissed off right now but jeez for thos of u who cannot even install it, just get winrar and do it that way, otherwise u might aswell not try second, dont expect to much on the old fps coz they havnt quite finishing making it compatible with different compz, u have any troubles plz email me... im lonely... :P

l8a fellers

Remember Vermin, it's an alpha. It ain't always gonna run perfectly. You're gona need a SERIOULY kick-ass machine like the one iD used at E3 to get the most out of it.

HALLO DOOM guys. I HAVE 200mb of 372, connecting but thats all. I need sources. PLEASE!!!!
I hope on my computer it will work. I have:
AMD th. 1.2 on 1.4(as strong as xp 1600)
256 DDR 266mhz
soltek via kt 266A sldrv2 (in sisoft sandra 2002 my ram and board is faster than via KT333 with DDR 333)
GEFORCE 3ti 200 OVERCLOCKED:175 on 230, 400 on 480
DIRECT X 9 and win xp pro
IF anybody has the same and play doom 3. SEND me if it worked fine.
ONE thing is strange. I have DSL 512kbs, but download speed is between 0.30-15kbs.Now I download with 0.73kbs. HOw it is possible?I´m not from USA. I´m from the heard of Europe. BY GUYS
AND ENJOY YOUR DOOM.

I dont really care if the doom.exe is hacked or unhacked... I just need one to run the game. My 9500->9700 wont really care either way :)

I am still getting a max of 9 FPS even though i am running it with standard GL. here are my specs

Celeron 950 mhz
412 mbs of SDram
Radeon 8500 LE 128mb DDR ver.

Let me know what I could do.

I am still getting a max of 9 FPS even though i am running it with standard GL. here are my specs

Celeron 950 mhz
412 mbs of SDram
Radeon 8500 LE 128mb DDR ver.

Let me know what I could do.

No one here has the doom.exe file they can send? Just click on my name to get the email address you need. Thanks in advance :)

I hate to sound like a brocken record or a nagger here but here is the definitive summary of D3 and you. You get it from Kazza and patch it or from
http://www.packetnews.com
as an uncorrupted version. If you machine has not got a cpu above 1Gh and you dont have a Radeon9700 then you will have to get the "lower my graphics please" patch. If youre machine kicks ass in the cpu or gpu area then you can run at a good speed. Play around expect about 20-30fps in an empty room to 2fps in combat, think how wonderfull this is as you shouldnt have this yet and dont complain.

ps rather than flaming the forum, send them to my adress personally as I know ill piss ppl off.

Blackhawk, have you found anything about how the intro works?

HALLO IIIIIIII HHHHHAAAAAAVEEEEEE IT!!!!!!!
I RUUUNNNNNN IT in lower setings at 35fps and in higher setings at5fps. More ram than 256needed it is true.RADEON 9700 Needed it is true, but on my gf3ti200 works to!!! IIIIIIII HHHAAAAAAAVVEEEEEEE ITTTTTTTTT!

hey i am running a Amd Athlon 1ghz 384 megs SD ram ati radeon 9000 pro 128 meg video card and the game is running choppy could it be i need more ram or something? it runs fine at first but after about a miniute of playing i get about 2-5 fps and ive turned the resolution down to 640x480 what should i do???

If anything it's your processor. That seems like adeuate memory to run it ok, but trry and tone down some of the grphical details. A link is in here somewhere.

I am getting 40/60 FPS in DOOM3 with out any patch
System
Athlon XP 1.8
DDR 512(166)
Radeon 9700 pro(Made by ATI)
ASUS A7N8X-DX with Sound Storm
Windows 2000 SP3
Cacheman latest version.

PS: The frame hate down to 18/19 when you fire near a monster.
PS: I have shutdown all the services from Win2k before play the game.
PS: I am using a hacked version of doom3.exe that nobody game to me(testing) but the game crashes when cinematics are running.

I change setings to high and I have 20fps, but I canˇt change a resolution. If I change it from 7xxon4xx on fore example 800x600 I have 7xxon4xx. I change resolution in config.cfg, but resolution doesnˇt work. Is it possible?

Well i have read about all of these postes and it seems that i have the worse problem i unzip with winRAR.
This goes perfect i go to open my prize and joy(DOOM III) and the opengl console runs you know just before the game(example quake, wolfenstein, SOF2 and so on...) than an error pops up before the game even starts saying:

nVidia OpenGL driver
Driver componment sizes mis-match. Retry to keep going. Cancel to exit.

Than i throught delete the "DoomConfig.cfg" to start it new but all what happens is a grey window fills the screen and you hear a error message which says the same:

nVidia OpenGL driver
Driver componment sizes mis-match. Retry to keep going. Cancel to exit.

Has any one had this promblem and fixed it or is their any one who knows how fix.
Need it fixed missing out on the joy.

"Yeah, but's that 'cause you've got a kick-ass system. I envy you."

don´t envy me.. . WORK ON A GOOD JOB.
Only that.

lol will do once I finish my education. :D

OK, i finally got this mofo working right, but now i have HORRIBLE FPS. Whenever shooting, i average about 2 fps, other wise i average about 6 or 7 fps. I have a p3 1,0 ghz processor, but i have a geforce 4 ti 4200, and 1.25 gigs of SDRAM...shouldn't i be getting a little better framerate? I changed openlgl settings and all that stuff at the beginning of the forum, im just looking for some more tips on how to up my fps. Thanks alot...

Adam: Looks like yo're processor is a bit out of date - try and upgrade to an Athlon XP or Pentium 4. For this you'll need a new motherboard don't forget as they both use a different socket to the Pentium 3. Do that and Doom should run cricles around your desktop.

Hey guys does anyone of you know how to modify the intro and play in it?

I see that another guy asked this too, but I don't see a reply of how to do it...

......ERROR: GL_SelectTexture: unit = 1
also gave me a warning could not load console image
ALSO after reading all this page, i noticed i have no sounds dir or nin dir anything like that. Do I have bigger problems than before? makuh me anguhree

i get Radiant MFC Application error while loading game any ideas??

Hey guys, right, i know this forum hasn't really replied to any of the messages relating to the general protection error that windows gives..so i am posting to ask how to get around the problem of windows giving me the error and actually being able to run the bloody game! it sounds kick ass and looks amazing.

Any posts to this are appreciated

KAGE-PROTOTYPE?????
I have amd 1.2 on 1.4 256 DDR 266 and geforce 3ti200, My frame rate is 30fps when fighting 10-15fps. Noo Procesor but ram is needed. I have high detail at 640x480. If I wont see a 1024 ore1280 I must buy min.512mb!!! THE GAME NEED RAM, NOT PROCESOR. IF PROCESOR IS 1GHZ AND 512RAM IT WILL WORK BETTER THEN P4-3GHZ,AMD 2400+WITH 128,256RAM. DOOM IS WERY COOL AND I MADE 200 SCREENSHOTS.
ENJOY YOUR DOOM GUYS. BYE

BOLIER: the dude had a Geforce 4 Ti4200 and 1.25GB of SDRAM. I doubt he needs more RAM. THE P3 is the only thing sticking out that probably needs updating,. as everything else is pretty much top noch.

OK,P3 is slower than p4,amd athl.,xp,but problem is still in ram.SDR is to slow.He need DDR(333-400).In sisoft sandra is sdr4xslower than ddr266!!!!But you probably right. He need processor.Hey Adam.Buy amd athl.(xp) ore P4.But donˇt forget!! Buy ram too!!!!!
Bye and be carefull!!!HellKnights are as fast as F1.

Hey guys i just thought id give u a cool tip. If you are sick of always typing the in map e3/e3_1 or whatever map name u wanna play, make a shortcut of doom3.exe and then right click on the shortcut and in the target line simply add map e3/xx (where x is the name of the map) eg:

the line now would be c:\path to your doom3.exe map e3/e3_1.

I have made 4 shortcuts. 3 for each map and 1 for the intro. U never know it might actually get passed that damn error.

Buy the way my system specs are:

750Mhz Duron
512MB SDRAM
Geforce2 64MB SDRAM MX 400
Win xp pro

max frames i have goten is only about 16 and goes down to like 1 in action but im pretty suprised that my card can actually play! I dont have any of the patches either!

I have read the ENTIRE thread and there has been like 10 posts asking the same queastions LOL.

Thanx guy for posting these helpfull tips espeacially the one how to change resolution! that help lots.

I was wondering, can u download more maps for the demo ?

Hey guys me again. Sorry for posting so quikly but i found a cool site where u can download custom doom 3 maps.

The url is http://www.doom3maps.de/ but its not english oh well :D seeyaz again and post cool doom 3 links here

I have downloaded the file about 4 times on Kazaa, everytime I unrar the rar file it has no executable file in it?? Can anyone tell me the correct rar file to download? I would appreciate it, thank you.

Ok...I download that alpha fix...got the exe...tried to run the game but it just has a white screen with a huge black box doesn't do anything, I hit alt f4 and it shows the loading console and says error with some type of font...strange?

This is the error I get while trying to start the game. It just has a white screen with a dark black box centered...does nothing... Can anyone help?
regenerating _quadratic.
regenerating _scratch.
regenerating _scratchCubeMap.
WARNING: Couldn't load image: console
idPacketServer::Kill: server thread not active
********************
ERROR: RegisterFont: couldn't load FreeType code fonts/fontImage_16.dat

********************
Error during initialization

any one know the code for level 2??? (3 digeit code) for the door????

AMD XP 2200+ T (1.8ghz)
512 DDR 3700
Radeon 9700 (Non-Pro)
Epox 8RDA+ (Nforce2)
8x AGP, DirectX9
(Fully tweaked system running WinXp SP1)

1024x768
60-80 FPS
30-45 FPS In a gunfight

800x600
80-120 FPS
40-60 In a gunfight

You just need the right setup, the full build WILL run better.

I've got a Commodore 64 and can't get Doom 3 to work! What am I doing wrong?

OI stop impersonating me!

Why are there no daisies or petunias or daffodils decorating the halls of D3??? It would make a wonderful backdrop for all the blood stains. Who do contact to make my suggestion to?

NO you stop impersonating ME!

926 or 924
try NOCLIP at console.. and pass through the door.

Those who don't have the DOOM III alphy (shame on U 8) ) check out:http://www.progamer.ru/proforum/printthread.php?threadid=2903

you can find some links there as a startout.
This solved my problem with the "bathroom"

http://www.techconnect.nl/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=421&page=4

..and thax goes out for BLACK HAWK for his config (scroll up to find it) -though it was running, now it is a bit faster :)

is there any possible way to skip that long loading when starting the intro?

I just got this baby up and running. My system is P3 1GHz, 384 SDRam, GeForce2 MX 400 64 MB SDRam. From the beginning of the demo on e3_1 I get about 6-7 fps with all details on. The first thing I do is turn off Dynamic Lighting, and boom 15-20 fps. it drops to like 6-7 fps when something starts attacking, but after the initial attack frames go back up to 15-20, while the attack is happening. I havent played to far into it yet, cause it scares the shit outta me. But I was wondering bout the patch, what kinda stuff does it do?

fascinating..
I know I should definatly be doing better than the 5fps average ive been getting on my 1.2 tbird, gig of ddr 2100, ge2 mx400 64mb...
especially with what osenk says he gets, lol
i think the key is directx9 (which i haven't installed since I reloadd windows..) and possibly futzing with shadows and lighting...but its the lighting that makes it so creepy @_@ I can't wait to buy this game...but yeah, since they haven't optimized it tahts why it runs like ass...but for version 0.02 its excellent and gives me high hopes for the final version..

me again
i found a hacked exe and config "fix" that you just install..and has a "no intro" exe and an "intro exe" no need to type in the map loading crap at all
Ill post it when I get home...

two good links
http://users.adelphia.net/~nrgonline/doom3/

http://www.xzon.net/doomiii/demo.php

No prons roll, i live to serve :P, i havent spent much time fideling with D3, back to school and HSC and all :*(

BTW: it seems on my comp anyway, that D3 has a memory leak, that is it dosn't wipe system memory after it uses it which means it gets slower the longer I play it. This is a long time with 512mb DDR 336ram (yay) but if you only have 128, dont expect to be playing for hours.

When you download the doom 3 alpha off Kazaa it should be about 120 megs. It is a RAR FILE. Get winrar and open the actual winrar program, find the doom 3 alpha program that you downloaded and tell it to extract that file. That was the way I got it to extract.

I have a question, after shooting and killing a few zombies the framerate drops drastically and strange graphical anomilies start showing up on the screen. The performance drop is accompanied by a message that says "vertex cache overflow". I have 256 megs of ram, is that the problem? Most people now have 512, but I always thought 256 was pretty big. I am running a geforce 2 mx 400, its pretty dated so I was surprised how well it ran the game, but after shooting a few zombies the above happens. I have a pretty nice processor, p4 1.4 ghz, so I know that is not the problem. Any suggestions?

The weak link is probably your video card, after killing some zombies (messily) there is blood splattered alllllll over the walls ( :) ) and youre GPU is probably struggeling to calculate blood vectors and render them all in realtime, have you tried lowering youre graphics setttings, heres how you do it,

go into doom folder and find doom config, open it using word pad and find these phrases

seta r_useStandardGL "1"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "1"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "1"

turn seta r_shadows "1"
to "0"

find
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "5"
and change mode to "3" to (640X480)

I think there is also a graphics lowering patch that will do similar things but I don't know about it.

thanks but I have done those things, and alot of other things to make the game look like crap, but the blood is still there, the decals are still there, and the game just doesnt clear it from the memory. I was wondering if you could turn decals (bullet holes) off? Sure there would be no blood but I wanna play the damn game at a reasonable framerate!

could someone send me doom3.exe?
the rar file i downloaded did not include it.

sure, whats your email address?

its dm_torak649@hotmail.com
thankyou and also wen i try to run a fixed exe i found it comes up with a black box and a big white border round it and wen i alt-f4 that a blue text box thingy sez

********************
ERROR: RegisterFont: couldn't load FreeType code fonts/fontImage_16.dat

can ne1 help me please?

i got something 2 make it work but wen i load it uo all the writing is cyan and dark green and red bars on a white background...
wat can i do?
please help me anyone!!

sorry, gay yahoo mail cant send files over 3 megs, and its 4! sorry.

thas ok im downloading it from direct connect
do u know wats up with the crappy coloured writing?

i downloaded a 364mb doom3 from direct connect.
it had no doom3.exe or fonts file i got both of them and the multifix but the menus and console are all strange colours. what can i do?

Does anyone else just get the grey screen of death??
Installed all the files with the patch/config etc.
Click on the .EXE and I see the blue loading box then the screen goes black then grey and stays like that. If I wait a while and type in the map command I can hear the game running but still only have grey screen to look at :(

I'm running the following:
AMD 2100xp
Nvidia ti4400 (4286 drivers)
512ram
Win XP Pro SP1 DX9.

Any ideas??? This is killing me!!!

Hi people..
I am wondering if there are any other monsters in the leaked version.
There are mamy monsters in the cvarlist that the alpha version don´t have.

Does ghostskull monster works?

spawn monster_ghostskull_ghostskull.

I would like do spawn some mariners too.. but I only manage do spawn the evil doctor.

I recently managed to downlaod and get doom3 working thanks to you guys on this page.

I however keep encountering a bug when a door opens on the first level.

Its the second door you walk through but as soon as i open it the sreen goes black and it complains about demo not recording.

the annoying thing is that the game is still running but all i can see is a nice black screen.

any suggestions on how to fix this ?

ARGGG What is the Multifix and where can i get it?

Hey guys, I got the doom 3 demo working.
Downloaded off of kazaa, and got the winrar extracter program. Worked fine, once I found out you have to use the consol to get into the game.

I have an athlonxp 2100 overclocked to 2400 with 512MB ddram overclocked to almost 400mhz thanks to the new nvida8x agp board!
I have an geforceTI4200 128mb 8xagp (leadtek, best overclocking brand IMO).

WIth this monster setup the game gets about 23 fps on the first level I play. Very little slowdown even in fights. BUT ONLY FOR THE FIRST LEVEL. once I load up a new map, or spawn too many ragdoll fat zombies :) the game loses the fps BIG TIME. like the game does not clean the ram out at all, or somthing...
Still. WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE GAME!! WOW! It was worth it to see alone. I am very impressed with the light sourcing. Just amazing work! I will definatley buy this game when it comes out, cause I know with the bugs worked out, It will play at 35+ fps on my current system.I AM SURE OF THAT. I remember the q3 alpha demo too.. It was the same way. Played with low fps when fighting. But when the full version came out, 60 fps no probs on a lil 300mhz system!
I know I could tinker with d3 to get more out of it but why.? I already like what I see and am just waiting to buy!
My fav thing was spawning ragdoll zombies and pileing up the bodies!! I can't belive how realistic it is! THE ARMS/LEGS WRAP ON AND AROUND NOT THROUGH OTHER OBJECTS!!!! Cool! I stacked like 5 bodies untill the game got too low fps!
I CAN NOT WAIT TO PLAY DEATHMATCH AND HAVE PILES OF MY VICTEMS ADDING UP!!! :)
The real disapointment I had with this illeagal alpha lead was the violence.. THE full version BETTER have gore effects not just blood and pain skins.. Yes it is the best blood ever, but I wanted to blow zombies into pieces!.. I am sure the full version will be more than I bargained for in violence! :)

Hopefully some smart programmer with spare time will make some good nonofficail mods\patches for this demo to enhance the experience, since it will be a long time before the real deal is out. :(

But unreal 2 is out tommorow and though not as good graphically, I think it is the better game. Sure doom is fun and all, but unreal just sounds like more fun.!
game on dudes! game on!

HAHAHAHA!!!

This is the funniest thing I have heard all day! Hey ghoraker the screen turning black is the END OF THE LEVEL! Type in: map e3/e3_2 to go to the next level. hahahahaah....

is it just me or is there very few people posting here now? I wanna chat about D3, see if I can learn any more about the demo. I have been researching this demo for awhile and have yet to find the answer to my question. Is there any way to turn the blood off? I think this is the problem because once I shoot a few zombies the system craps out and runs like shit. Maybe a way to make the blood dissapear faster?

I would like to get Sued´s cacheman scripts. I have only 256MB DDR with Athlon XP 2000+ and GeForce 4 MX440 64 MB DDR and I cannot run Doom3. I think the problem is in memory.
Please send me the scripts.

Hi brow...
Even my script can´t help you because you are running GeforceMX.. (the graphic processing power is lower then geforce2TI top model).
Well. my script only works with win98 and win2k..
winXP EATES a lot of memory even disabling all the beautifull graphic functions.
I am writting in conjunction an JAVA program to configure doom3.
Tell me your system specification so I can help.
Forgive my wrong email address. i am to busy in my work to answer any questions.
My system specs are:
Athlon XP 1800
512 RAM -> upgrated for doom3 and UT2003 DDR 333(set at 166. i can set thisfunking memory to 266)
Asus a7n8x-dx
Radeon 9700 PRO 128 MB
Win2k SP3
Look.. I don´t think WindowsXP is a good platform for gamming...Doom3 runs better on win2k than WindowsXP.

Probaly.. thge responsible for all slow down in doom3 is the FALLING BLOOD..
if you can disable this.. you can save memory.
If you have a card different than Radeon 8500,870p ro..geforce 4ti 1278MB.. try disable dimanic shadows..
Hugs!

Does anyone knows WHY i can set memory frequency at 266 on Athlon XP 1800 ASUS A7N8X-DX.
My memory is PC2700 (333).
I can only set at 166.
AthlonXP front size bus is 266..dammmed...

Hey guys, I know I said I would not tinker with it more, but I got bored.. I don't know what option exactly it was that did this but--
I got the game running over 60fps in small enclosed areas!! And when fighting zombies I got over 30. But once again, I spawned too many rag dolls and my frames toumbled when it could not compute the data of all the bodies!
I wish I could post the sceen shot I took! I PILED AT LEAST 2 DOZEN BODIES in the 2nd level! What a gross but amazing site!

I had trouble getting the sound to work right... I have to switch it back and forth from windowed mode to fullscreen and restart whenever I want to play with sound.

GO BUY UNREAL 2 YA BUMS! :)

I don't suppose anyone knows how to take screenshots of this do they?

sly dawg, i had the same problem when i tried to unzip by double clicking. the dos window popped up for a split sec. but then a right clicked on the file and went to exract. mabey it will work for you

ahh! i dont understand why my computer is underperforming. i have the graphics as the highest res, bump mapping, antistropic filtering on, shadows, ect... but the most FPS i get is 30 with my 9700 pro!!! here are my specs. please give me some advice!

512 pc 2700 DDR
2 gig amd
9700 pro

need help please!!!

ahh! i dont understand why my computer is underperforming. i have the graphics as the highest res, bump mapping, antistropic filtering on, shadows, ect... but the most FPS i get is 30 with my 9700 pro!!! here are my specs. please give me some advice!

512 pc 2700 DDR
2 gig amd
9700 pro

need help please!!!

I have a Compaq
PIII 650mhx
Running 98se
directx 9
intel 810e video card
Doom III won't run on my machine. The blue loading screen comes up. It gives a final error of
Unable to Initialize OpenGL
two errors which seem to lead up to this are

calling cds: failed, bad mode

trying higher resolution
no high res mode

any help would be appreciated

Ok , eveyone who gets a grey screen and see nothing go to http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nv30_emulation and download the NV30 emulator , run it , aply it and doom will work

a lot of you don't know what you are talking about. this game is EXTREMELY cpu limited. without a fsb speed of 133 or 166 (266 and 333 respectively) you will not be happy with your performance regardless of your video card. athlons running on the 200 mhz fsb just will not run this game comfortably. if you want to play this game you need to upgrade.

Forgive me if I am being a newb, but what is fsb?

ok, I did some research on the fsb lingo and it is front side bus. Great, while I dont have the money to upgrade, I thought overclocking is the next best option. Any recommended programs?

I got a pentium IV

All of you are pathetic.

What the hell is your problem Jordan?

UNREAL 2 -> TOO BAD
Now I understand why Legend didn´t put a Demo over the internet.
THE GAME IS BUGGUIE THAN DOOM3 ALPHA.
Even the characters are so brute... blehhh...
I am wondering that legend and info guys are not proud of their product.
I exchange my Unreal 2 for Silent Hill 2.
I AM VERY DISAPOINTED>

The alpha runs smooth here with the standard config and dynamic lights disabled , I'm doing like 50-60 FPS and 30-40 FPS in combat

running on AMD Athlon XP2100 + @ 2200+
GeForce4 Ti 4200 128M @ Ti4400
512 Mb DDR333 PC2700 ram on the MSI KT4 Ultra BSR mobo :)

how you disable dynamic lights?

I just noticed that in the cvars list there is a line that says: "g_skill 1" I am not sure if this is designating the difficulty level or not, or if difficulty levels are even implemented yet. If it makes a difference some of you hardcore gamers may have a blast by cranking the skill number up.

I also just noticed that you can lower the screen size of the game just like in the original doom! This created incredible results on my machine. Nearly a 10 fps difference when I lowered it once! Type in the console: sizeup, or: sizedown. The only problem here is that it puts the screen in the bottom corner and in the rest of the space you have what the screen looked like originally pasted there. if only we could figure out a way to make the empty space black and put the screen in the middle.

TO answer sniperguys question- yes you can take screen shots, but you have to bind a key to do it. Easy. I got many great pics!
And anyone who turns off the light sourcing to improve fps, is missing out on the best part of this game IMO. This demo is more fun to look at, then play. It is truely a site to behold!
As far as underperforming goes- You could have the absolute latest and greatest and your pc will still play this demo poorly. NOT becuase the game is that power demanding, but because it is alpha code. IMO, it is amazing it plays as well as it does considering this was only built to be a demo at E3!

Unreal 2 sucks? I don't mind if it is buggy. I am in it for the editor... :) and there will always be patches! Remember tribes 2 when it first came out? Played like crap, little time later, and a few patches, boom! Smooth as silk.
How was the violence in U2 by the way? I would buy it, but it is not in stores yet, in my area.. :(

Hey, heres some more little interesting tidbits, to see the AI routes, put htis in config,

bind m "toggle g_showroutes 1"

Hunter, I haven't tried it yet but put this in doom config, I'm hoping it'l remove blood

seta com_blood "0"

This one may also remove gibs, add it too

seta cg_gibs "0"

hope that all helps, I haven't tried them myself yet.
Also looking for a way to make player run faster in game, hes a bit slow.

to Doomdoom
you can find my spawn commands further up on the page, ghostskull still won't work :( but I'll try to get non player charachters (like scientist) TO SPWAN, keep in touch :P

to Doomdoom
you can find my spawn commands further up on the page, ghostskull still won't work :( but I'll try to get non player charachters (like scientist) to spawn, keep in touch :P

Hey good gamers,im just downloading the doom III alpha leak.exe off at kazaa.But im scared that after downloading the game i will have to face the problems of the game crashing and wont start etc.The name of the file is "doom3.e3-demo-alpha-leak.exe" the size is 372833kb,is this the right file?or is this just another fake alpha?

My specs:

Intel pentium4 1.6ghz
512mb pc2100 ddr
leadtek winfast a170 geforce4 mx440

but im still confident that it will work fine.If anybody knows if this is a fake file,please reply...

Gamebro.. I am running UNREAL2 with FULL Graphics.. and I DIDN´T LIKE ALL THE MONSTER STUFF.. only AIDA the girl from Atlantis SHips and the mechanics guy is worth to see.
All the monsters are so brute in design that I couldn´r belive that legend did this too us.
MUSIC IS BORING.. the action...well.. there are few few.. action in the game.. Maybe I am getting old.. but I don´t want to play the game.. my motivations is to showing off to my friends that I terminate the game in 5 hours.
Even ALL BUG FIXED. the game wil not be more interesting that it is.
Look.. and enginne is amazing.. there are some cute effects.... but LEGENDS MESS UP WITH ALL THE FUCK...
THE GAME IS NOT WORTH.. THIS IS WHY LEGEND DIDN´T BUT A DEMO OVER THE INTERNET.. DID YOu UNDERTAND?

to BlackHawk..
I appreciate your feed back.. if I discover something diferent..I will tell you.

Hey Blackhawk, how you doin? Remember me? I was the one that had asked you about the modified level intro...Well? Have you found anything?

Só tem filha da puta nessa porra! Tirando alguns caras com conhecimento.. o resto só quer coisa de mão beijada..ai é foda.. quem conseguir me ler...
vai tomar no cu também..porque esse forum é uma merda!

Unrealsuck- You make some good points.. I never liked the monsters in unreal 1 so I don't think they will be much better now. Stupid skarri were the most annoying creature to fight, and the most common. Human oppenents would have been much more interesting.
But this game will still be fun for mappers like me! Heck, I thought the single player mode of unreal 1 sucked big time! But using the editor I added many nalis and other goodies to make it more enjoyable. gota love blowing up them guys! :)
I agree with you even though I haven't played it, it seems to be All hype and no game. But I am going to enjoy it more than doom, simply because of the editor, which is usuable by non coders such as myself.
I agree that it looks bad for the company that there was no demo..
Would you be able to tell me more about the gameplay? I can't find anyscreen shots or any info of the violence.. I am just scared they pulled a morrowind here! SPEAKING OF WHICH! WILL SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE A GORE\GIB MOD FOR MORROWIND??? Lol.. I am in the wrong forum, but I tried!
Gibs in the doom demo????????? No way!!? Really? Excuse my ladies and gentlemen, I got go tinker with my toys!

When I launch doom.exe it loads a grey box and then it just freezes. Any ideas on how to fix it?

1.7 Ghz P4
512 mb sdram
GF3 TI200

hey blackhawk, you can make him run faster by changing these lines:

pm_runspeed "220"

and

pm_walkspeed "100"

here is a few others:

pm_noclipspeed "200"
pm_crouchspeed "80"
pm_stepsize "16"
pm_jumpheight "48"

I have never tried these, but I think they will work.

also, is there a way to make blood dissappear faster?

.... Ok Unrealsuck, you win.. I had no idea they cut the mulitplayer mode out of unreal 2 entirly.. I am not going to even buy it now, untill there is a mod or patch that includes multiplayer mods.
Unreal 2 is an awefull piece of crap!

You beat the game in less than 10 hours, and that is it.. NO multi, not even coop. I don't care how good a game is these days, 10 hours is not enough if you have no multi..
Yes mappers like me can still enjoy the game, but not for 50 bucks when they cut out multi. NOW I WON'T FEEL GUILTY WHEN I DOWNLOAD IT OFF OF KAZAA FOR FREE! Cause this game is not worth much.! :(
They could have at lease sold the game for only $25 like serious sam was. The full price IS NOT FAIR you cheap bastards!

May the frag gods have mercy on legend\epics' greedy asses.! :(

To Astroth, alas, I have played D3 about 5 seconds in the last month due to HSC homework and harsh parents :( but I will try this Wend.

To Hunter, I posted the commands for no blood/gibs a little bit up, I will try them now and post if they actually work in about 2 mins.

To Hunter
ahahahhahah, success!, I'm not sure if this is new to you but I just put these in doom config,

seta com_blood "0"

and

seta cg_gibs "0"

and all the blood dissapears 20 seconds after it is created, voila, slightly faster. Hope it helps :)

PS: I found an easy way to make the game harder, put this into doom config

seta com_maxfps "5"

I though the monsters would have a better chance aginst me if I was constantly at 5fps, I got a raging headache and was killed by a mob of ragdolls, mabey I should find a better way

:P

To gamebrow..

God bless you..that you gave UP buying Unreal2.

Look.. the technology is amazing(there some nice effects that Unreal2003 doesn´t have)...
But take some exemple:
If god gives power to an idiot(Legend) ...this idiot will do some piece of trash with good lights and shadows.
This is Unreal2.

The worst thing for me is Monster Modeling.
THERE AREN´T ANY RAGDOLL(Phisics) efects on the creatures.. I couldn´t belive.....
When you fire at some dead corpses.. humm. NO BLOOD..NO MOVE.
Look.. the game is only work to see in some firends house.. to see some nice enviroment..(there is an leve that a Couldn´t remenber that are amazing.. but only that).
The monsters AI are MONSTROUS.. COMPLETE diferent than Unreal2003. Unreal2003 is very polished.. good look graphics in every step on the game.
AGAIN..Unreal2 enginne is amazing.. (REALLY NICE REFLECTIVE EFFECTS.>AND SHADOWS(not as good as doom3..off course.. this is why doom3 is special)..I went to the InfoGames forum..to see what legends development are saying abou all the complains..THEY ARE PREATY DEAD...
The next patch will increase player movement that is not suficient to avoid fire...
I am guilt.. I BOUGHT THE FUCKING GAME.. HERE IN BRAZIL FOR $60!!!!!! :(
Thanks for not buying this shit.....

I hope Doom3 won´t disapointed me..
I have 26 year.. I saw Wolfeinstein.. Doom... tha so on... (I was once a gamer programer..but I gave Up to work with financial programer.. SUCKS).
I am doiing some hacking into doom3.exe.. but it will take a long...(I can´t remever all the fucking assember OP codes).
Hugs

K, I had the same problem, when I started the game, all I would get is a blinking grey screen at full screen, and in windowed mode, it was just simply a grey screen.. I fixed this problem, by going here http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nv30_emulation and downloading the nvemulate.exe running that little program, clicking checkmark next to the first box, then clicking apply. Everything ran well, however, this is my computer

amd 1800 xp
gf4 mx 440
382 mb ddr ram
windows xp
40 gig 7200 rpm hdd
42.01 nvidia driver
directX version 9 the beta one.

Now, the really weird part is that, if you know tribes 2, I get 160 fps average in this game, in quake I would imagine I would get 250 fps, in sof2 I get 125 fps, I simply can ran anygame flawlessly, at high graphics with really high fps.. Now, while playing the game doom 3, I get around 1 fps every 5-6 seconds?? I mean wtf, I even optimized my doomconfig.cfg file, and still I get 1 fps every 5-6 seconds??

I am trying to figure out what the problem is, that it keeps doing this? I figured, a reason why these problems are being caused, is maybe because I get warning error msgs after typing in map e3/e3_1 _2, or _3. For example, the first msg for first map is
Warning: Maps /e3/e3_1.aas96 is out of date.
1 warnings

Now for the 2nd map, I get warning: rigid body for entity etc...

I as well get a similer error for 3rd map.. I have yet to figure out why the hell does it say this? I know I should run this game atleast at 50 fps at lower detail settings, yet it's not doing this.. I remember running this game some time ago with only 128 mb ddr ram, slower computer at 10 fps, and this newer computer which is much better, runs at far worse performance??

IF anybody else here is having these difficulties, and finds a way to fix them, please post your reply in here, if any of us have helped you, especialy me, please you owe us this one.. We all should help eachother out, so post if you know anything that can help any of us out, thanks peace out. I'll be back, if I found out the solution to the problem myself.

well guys, I think I have given up. Without putting the resolution down to 400 by 300, I turned down everything so that it looks like TOTAL CRAP. The only reason that creates these huge ass slow downs I think is the excelent blood effects. I think every blood splatter on the wall is created randomly so it looks super realistic. Now these blood effects have to take into consideration the area around the point of impact and splatter the blood around that area in a (I think) random fasion. If this is so, no wonder everyone gets hella slow downs after killin a bunch of zombies. The computer stores all the blood effects in its ram which eats up resources.

Ever use the machinegun and just load a dead body with bullets? You can see it get slower and slower from all the blood flying around. Now, if some guy out there could create a patch for this thing that might conserve resources better, i would get it because I have a dated video card and all the blood splattering around wont help.

Normally i get around 20fps when walking around, and when I start shooting a zombies it fluctuates between 0-15 fps. Keep in mind that this is with just about everything turned off, shadows, normal gl is turned on, you name it I got it turned to its highest performance setting.

Now I have to admit that it runs hella good for alpha code, and by the way it was only made for ID's super computers.

SOMEBODY MAKE A PATCH FOR THIS THING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS!

oh by the way, I really had high hopes for u2, and everywhere I have been hearing it sucks, bad. I remember the singleplayer of the first unreal and it was pretty damn cool. Like the little brother of HL. Guys, today is a dark day for the creators of u2. Kinda feels like funeral.

you guys ever try turning the sound off? I cant beleive how much of a fps jump it makes. Like when it was on it was pretty much unplayable, but when I turn it off it runs like friggen lightning (for my specs anyway) anyway to lower the quality of the sound so I can get a better fps?

ack, I am kinda tired of optimizing. I just gotta get myself a new geforce 4 ti 4400! Then the game will run perfectly, and when the actual game comes out, no problem, just run it as usual and get astonishing frame rates. The geforce 4 ti 4400 is running at about 130 bucks, so if I cant get that, god help me and just hope it comes out for the xbox.

I NEED THE GUI FILES AND THE MODELS. PLEASE SEND ME THEM AT gtavice80@yahoo.com

Hunter: it IS coming out for the Xbox.

And on the subject of U2, it ain't ground-breaking, but it IS one of the best FPS games I have played. ever.

hey kage, I have heard of it coming out for xbox, but i am still not sure. DO YOU HAVE A TIME MACHINE AND CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE?

lol just kiddin man.

I really hope it does because I am sick and tired of having to buy a new video card every 2 years for 300 dollars.

I did some research and doom 3 will be ported to the box late next year at the earliest. Well that just confirms that I will buy it for the pc.

only if I get a new geforce 4 4400 dammit!

Geforce4 sucks, clueless moron.

Ralphy: I beg to differ. The Geforce 4 is the most opoular card out there, and while the R300 chipset cards are more powerful, there isn't much else that could beat the GF4 in terms of power and price. It's relatively cheap (for graphics cards) and packs a mean punch. So no, it doesn't suck. Even the MX version can still hold out on it's own. Now, if you have a R300 chipsset like the Radeon 9700 pro, then good for you, you have the best on the market. But GF4 is STILL very powerful, and is about $100 cheaper.

I think YOU'RE the clueless moron.

i saw heaven (looks like hell)
doom3alpha is a great thing and works well on my:
duron 1.3ghz, 768mb ddr ram 2100, gforce4ti 4200.
i get ~20fps without monsters and ~7-10fps with monsters at 1280x1024 :)
i look forward to this game, till then i have to finish unreal 2 :)
ps. FANTASTIC LIGHTS, i liked bathroom very much
pps. whatever i can not play E3/E3_2. all other work well

Kage, GF4 is only popular cause the mainstream market is 15 yr old idiots such as yourself that think Nvidia is the best brand of card you can get.

Firstly, GF4 MX is basicly just a overclocked, slightly modifyed GF2 designed to suck in the low end market and get rid of left over chips- dont try and tell me differnt, its a FACT.

Radeon 9700 and GF4 Ti4600 are around the same price, depending on which brand, some are cheaper some are the same some are more expensive.
But can you run the most graphicaly intensive games with full AA and full FSAA without a major slowdown on a Ti4600? Nup. Thier FSAA technology sucks just like thier cards.
In fact, r300 hasnt even reached its true potential yet because ATI still havnt masted the drivers (nvidia have had years to work on thier drivers).

Just take a look at Nvidia's "next generation" GF FX, Radeon 9700 is outperforming it in some cases and at the most its only gaining a 3%-10% speed increase, and Radeon 9700 STILL beats it at FSAA. Its being canned at 100,000 cards and Nvidia is going back to the drawing board.
They are shitting themselves now because ATI's new line of cards is going to BLOW THEM AWAY, and they know it.

Nvidia has only slowed down the potential of GFX card technology, it should be much better now than it currently is.

3DFX's Voodoo4/5 had the potential to beat a GF3 back in its time, but 3dfx never got the chance to make good drivers.

Right now, nvidia is still going to lead the market, but unless they steal ATI's technology or hit a breakthrough they are in serious trouble.

Anyways, ive had my rant.

Also, i brought a Radeon 9500 pro.. A software mod and a little overclocking later and its running exactly the same as a Radeon 9700 pro if not better.

For the price of a Ti4200, i would say i got a pretty good deal ;)

well I have an nvidia geforce2 mx, and it runs without a hitch. I am NOT going to spend 300 dollars for a new radeon just to upgrade 2 years later. While radeon has quite alot of technological merits, it is not worth the extra hundred bucks.

and I do agree with you that the geforce4 mx is quite a lot slower than the ti, but it reflects that as being only 50 or 60 bucks.

by the way guys how does doom 3 alpha run on a geforce4 ti4200 128 megs of ram?

this game is amazing

lol my system isnt the greatest
duron 800
384 mgs of ram
radeon 8500
western digital 7200rpm hd
im currently running the game at 320 by 400 and it runs pretty smooth... about 30 when no monsters 10 with.... pretty cool game cant wait for the regular..... is it gunna come out in the summer or christmas 2003?

Excuse me, but when did I say that the GF4 is the best card on the market? Hell, I said that the R300 chipset was the best. I was saying that the GF4 DOESN'T suck, and is great value for such a low price. And yes, the R300 range does tend to cost around £50 MORE than the GF4 range. I was opnly triny gto say the GF4 was good, not that it was the best.

And Ralphy, while I know the GF4 MX is just a GF2 on sterioids, I HAVE ONE because it was the only one I could afford (second hand for £40), and it runs extremely well. Now true, i haven't experienced the Ti versions yet, but my experience with the MX goes to show that it CAN perform really well on some of the most demanding games on the market, like unrea2 and UT2003, Doom 3, Battlefield 1942, medal of Honour AA etc. And don't try to tell ME otherwise, because I have experienced it.

PLEASE HELP!!!!

i have seen a few other people have this problem but no one answers them. i downloaded it off kazaa, i got the fix but when i run it i get the error saying it is missing fontImage_16.dat.

PLEASE I MUST GET THIS WORKING!!!!

Hallo guys,
all I wont to tell you is: Every geforce mx(2,4) is not good choice!! If you wont to buy new card, buy geforce 3(ti),4 Ti!!!!, Radeon(8500,8500le,9500,9500 pro,9700, 9700pro) but fore the good NOT MX!!!!
Kage prototype!!!! gf4 is faster geforce 3!!!!! and better choice is geforce 3 ti 200 than geforce 4 mx460!!!!!!!!!!
DOOM IS DOOM. Hallo everyone

Ack! I need help!

I've downloaded doom3.e3-demo-alpha-leak.exe but when i go to install it it goes into dos prompt and says program too big to fit in memory. How can i get around this problem?

DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS PROBLEM???
please i need to get it to work aparently someone used the font files from another game if so could u send them to me at therocksaystoomuch@hotmail.com

Ivan- I downloaded my doom off of kazaa too.. I had an error like yours while using winrar to extract it.
I Just ignored the errors, and it worked fine. I never used any fixes, and it worked fine. Not sure if I hade the same errors, but it sounds familular.?..

GeforceTI4200 128mb is what I am using.. AND IT DOES NOT SUCK! :(
I had a radeon 9500 64mb, and It was fine for most new games... BUT it could not play old games worth a crap! Very poor support for most older games! Now my G4 plays almost anything, so how can it suck? At least it plays the games I like to play!
Even in morrowind the textures where all screwy! MY D@MN SOUND WAS EVEN SCREWED UP in many games because of the ati card-- Even games that did not use 3d graphics like heros 2 had no music.. As soon as I put in the g4, abracadabra! No problems.
The new ati cards are good, but if you like to play new AND old games, I'd stay away from the ATI brand. But if you don't care about the classic games, then go with an ATI card ( just not the 9500! :(
I have actually used both brands so I know what I am talking about. Nvadia has been in this game longer, and is more popular, therefore has the support to back it. Nvadia put 3dfx out of biz, and I am sure it will happen to ati as well. I am glad that ATI has kicked nvadia in the ass for slacking off though! This should wake em up!

PS- don't waste your money on a new card now just to play doom3 2 fps faster. It is not worth it.!! Save your money and use the good card you have already. Otherwise you will kick yourself when the $300 card you want now is only $150 5 months from now!

I play old games just fine on my 9700, like action quake2/counter-strike/tribes2, aswell as new ones like Unreal2 that im playing now.

Never had one problem with it, no sound problems like you said and i have played the new morrowind expansion and it looks perfect.

My guess is that the card had some kinda incompatability with your motherboard or something.

Too install the demo, use winrar to extract it. its taht simple

morrowind expansion? What is that??
Can you tell me please?
hugs

Elder Scrolls 3: Tribunal

http://pc.ign.com/articles/379/379780p1.html

ya guys don't assume that the card you bought is crap because of problems you can't explain. ATI would never release a card that did wierd crap like that. I am a fan of nvidia but I know ATI aint that stupid.

if you experiance problems like that it is probably an incompatibility with something you have.

ok hunter you could be right.. Maybe my new nvadia MB is programmed to only work right with there brand of video cards!?
Still, the geforce is priced right.. I got my card with 6 games included for $150... I like leadtek! :)

And the morrowind expansion tribunal is not worth the $30 ... Wait untill it goes on sale, or DL it.

Lets get back to doom shall we?
I think it will be a great new game when it comes out. But people looking for the action packed kill fest that the old dooms were, will be dissapointed by the slower pace of this new doom. ya, I know, it is not done yet. But I can tell what kind of game it is going to be by this demo.. This is more of a survival horror game then an action game. All flash and no play. I am not dissapointed with the technoligy or graphics.. And I know the full version will be much better, but the gameplay is just soo soo.. Been there done that, got bored of it 10 years ago kind of gameplay... Anyone else think this?
Now before some of you call me a Dumb @$!%, please think about this-- Did you really enjoy shooting the new imps with the new shotgun as much as you did in the original doom??? I sure didn't.
I want a shooter that brings new gameplay not just new graphics. Hopefull system shock 3 will be developed with the doom 3 engine.... Then I can shut up..

Hey all,

Been reading here for a while, tried all kinds of configs. My problem occurs mostly on the first level, after killing a zombie or two, the graphics start to mess up and I get a message appearing on the screen "VERTEX CACHE OVERFLOW".

My current config:

***
unbindall

// Rendering
seta r_useStandardGL "1"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "0"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0"
seta r_varmegs "128"
seta g_gravity "1066"
seta com_drawfps "0"
seta com_maxfps "200"
seta com_drawhud "1"
seta com_speeds "0"
seta g_showPlayerShadow "0"
seta g_noReload "0"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta com_drawhud "1"
seta g_showGun "1"
seta g_showcamerainfo "0"
seta g_logSync "0"
seta g_log "games.log"
seta g_maxGameClients "0"
seta sv_maxclients "8"
seta name "curtis"
seta r_useFence "1"
seta r_mergeShadows "1"
seta image_maxPreload "0"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_compressBump "1"
seta image_compressSpecular "1"
seta image_compressDiffuse "1"
seta image_depth "2"
seta image_roundDown "1"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_anisotropy "0"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta r_shadowMapBias "0"
seta r_specular "1"
seta r_debugLineWidth "0"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "1"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "1"
seta r_gammaScale "1"
seta r_gammaBias "0"
seta r_swapInterval "0"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "3"
seta r_multiSamples "0"
seta r_stereo "1"
seta r_depthbits "24"
seta r_stencilbits "8"
seta r_colorbits "16"
seta r_ext_vertex_array_range "1"
seta r_ext_texture_env_combine "1"
seta r_ext_texture_edge_clamp "1"
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "0"
seta r_ext_compress_textures "0"

// Audio Configuration
seta s_cacheSize "64"
seta s_cacheAlwaysLoad "1"
seta s_rrAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rlAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_lfeAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_frAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_flAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_minPassTap "0.075"
seta s_stopBand "22050"
seta s_passBand "14000"
seta s_wallReflection "0.3"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_volume_dB "0"
seta s_linearFalloff "1"
seta s_FXChannelReturnVolume "0"
seta s_reverbTime "0"
seta s_reverbPercentage "20"
seta s_roomAcoustics "1"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_reverse "0"

// Keyboard and Mouse Control Binds
bind d "_attack"
bind z "_movedown"
bind a "_moveup"
bind SPACE "_forward"
bind s "_back"
bind 1 "weapon 1"
bind 2 "weapon 2"
bind 3 "weapon 3"
bind 4 "weapon 4"
bind 5 "weapon 5"
bind 6 "weapon 6"
bind 7 "weapon 7"
bind 8 "weapon 8"
bind 9 "weapon 9"
bind 0 "weapon 10"
bind x "weapprev"
bind c "weapnext"
bind f "_button2"
bind r "reload"
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind ` "toggleconsole"
bind MOUSE1 "_moveleft"
bind MOUSE2 "_moveright"
sensitivity "10"
seta pm_thirdPerson "0"
seta pm_thirdPersonAngle "0"
seta pm_thirdPersonRange "0"
seta pm_walkspeed "220"
seta pm_runspeed "220"
vid_restart

***

I am running a 1.4 GIG P4, GF4TI4200, AUDIGY 2. Any ideas? The game runs half decent, just this damn error makes some parts unplayable.

Suggestions welcome, don't hesitate to email.

- Curtis

To Ralphy: (thanks for the link)

To Gamebrow: I agree.. doom1 istill rocks nowadays... I doubt that doom3 will have the same feeling that doom1 based on gameplay...

Yes. I am sure the hardcore doom fans will not like the single player much. I still think doom 3 will be a great multiplayer game though. As long as you can pile your victems up! :)

Any of you guys ever use the doom legacy program? It rocks! You can play any of the old dooms with GL graphics in high res! Plus many other enhancements that make it feel and look like a newer game than it is! I highly reccomend DOOM LEGACY to the true doom fans.! Me n my lil bro lan the old dooms quite often! Coop rules!

hey curtis I get the same error after awhile, it depends alot on your system ram, which you didn't state. Apparently it doesnt clear the blood out of the system memory correctly and the incredibly real blood effects just sit in the ram and eat up the resources. I got 512 but you should probably have at least a gig of it for it to work optimally. Keep in mind that this is an ALPHA and the real game wont need nearly as much power as this demo does, it isnt optimized yet.

and yes, LEGACY RULES GET IT NOW!

and guys, people who think doom 3 is gonna suck because it is too slow should just shut up because we are not in the old arcadey "shoot everything that moves" gaming world anymore. The storylines are a whole lot (whole lot!) better written and they always change throughout the game. Old games like doom rock, but I get tired of the sole objective of the game being: run, shoot, gather ammo and health, repeat. I want a twist in the storyline and when I play old games like doom I feel like there is something missing. I hope doom 3 will fill in this empty space of storyline.

But hey, we just wanna slaughter zombies right? (crowd cheers)

Thanks Osenk!!

Does anybody have the same problem?

You shoot 60 bullets in 3 seconds at an enemy, and quickly your fps drops from 40-50 fps to 1-2 fps, anybody know how to fix this problem? what should I adjust, to get this thing working well.

hey paradox, when you shoot that many bullets at a zombie blood gets splattered everywhere and it eats up system resource. Technacally, 60 shots means 60 bloodstains all over the walls. The blood looks great and because of that eats up system resources. There is no "fix" because thats just what happens. I hope ID optimizes the blood effects so they aren't so staggering to the performance. (usually performace drops are related to rendering all the blood on the walls.)

thanks all, im gonna try and disable the blood. i thought i saw a config for it somewhere.

only got 256 MB RAM, but getting a new computer soon.

im totally aware that this is an alpha. i laughed when i say the version, "0.02", not even a full half of a release.

this game so far is very impressive. ill be patient.

Hey everyone...I really didn't want to try the D3 alpha and I've resisted for a number of months but now I just can't stand it any longer...I have to play.

I've been trying to download the thing but Kazaa is ass slow and eMule isn't getting it done either (too long to get resources...so long...).

I was wondering if someone could transfer the .rar to me, either through ICQ or some other program. Any help would be great...even helping me out with another file mirror/providor.

Bovine out.

Help guys. You guys must have the model folder. I NEED IT. UPLOAD IT SOMEWHERE OR EMAIL IT TO ME. I AM SERIOUS. THIS IS A CALL FOR HELP!! FROM ONE DOOM FAN TO ANOTHER. I WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME!

Hunter- I don't mean doom 3 will suck... And yes. Many people like you who are bored of action will enjoy a change.. But for the doom fans who liked the action and want more, they "will" be disapointed....
Personally, I don't care too much for most of the action games out there, as most action games are not fun to play period.. But I would rather D3 stay true to its' roots and be an action game.. NOT A MOVIE that gets old the first time you see it.... Why not just call this game- Resident Doom??? :)

All the good shooters are the slower ones these days. And I loved System Shock 2!! I would be very happy if ID would make doom 3 with RPG elements, or somthing that seperates this game from the rest, other than just having better graphics.. AND WILL THESE GRAPHICS STILL BE AWESOME NEXT CHRISTMAS??? By the time it gets out, we might have some other game that is graphically, about as good..
I am glad to see the doom 3 engine.. Not for doom3,, but for other games that may be developed with it that will be better than d3! SS3 anyone?
With that said, d3 will still be a roit online no doubt!

Just IMO.. not trying to flame you, or anyone else. :)

Hi. anyone out there, please send me the models and gui folders from their working version! if i odnt get them i will have to downlaod the hwole thing again from edonkey. i got the fonts from geek.com
but i NEED these folders please!

seta com_blood "0"
seta cg_gibs "0"

This is configurations for no bllod.. no gib

Gamebro: Actually, Doom 3 is looking at a summer/autumn release THIS year,as in 2003. There's still a long time to wait though.

Voucomerseucu: Thank you!

Yah i have a little problem.
I didn't even think i had a chance to run doom, but i get pretty a prety good 20fps(3fps with more than three guys on screen at once). The only thing i can't do is run the intro. I type "map e3/intro" and it loads for twenty seconds, then it says that doom 3 has caused an error and needs to restart. All the other three levels and the bathroom5 work fine. My computer is the following:

P4 1.4GHZ
128Mb pc-800 rdram
Geforce 2 GTS 32mb

Need Help, i really want to see the intro! If not, could someone just make an avi of it!

How do I make Doom 3 Full Screen? I would appreciate the info.

I think ID was aiming for a scarier type of game than anything else. It is quite rare these days for a game to scare the crap out of you, and this demo really scares the shit outta me! All the sounds in the background, a groan, and then a zombie comes out from a dark corner! PTFFFSH! This game has the most realistic violence I have ever seen. The blood looks like it is actually splatterring all over the walls. Also I hope they take out cutscenes because I wanna see the game for myself, not have a camera show it to me. I think that is a little bit too movie-ish. I want it to be the same feel as half-life.

How do i open my config file? I keeps telling me I need Wolfsp.exe

Hunter: While Half-Life was genuinly atmospheric because of the fact that there wee no cutscenes, it was still a tad limited in what it could do to the player. I mean, look at Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill 2 and other games using cut-scenes, it can still create a great atmosphere. And I don't even care if it does use them or not, as long as Trent Reznor's doing the sound, it would scare the shit out of everyone who played it, cutscenes or not! :D

well, I never did like cutscenes mainly because it made you feel like you weren't there. Metal gear solid was a third-person game, so the inclusion of a cutscene would not change the feel of the game at all seeing as you are always out of your own body anyway. On doom 3, however, cutscenes would disturb the immersion and quote: "remove the feeling of helplessnes" I still hope they drop the idea of cutscenes because I want to have the experiance of actually being there. Again, I relate to half-life, and I want it to feel that way.

also, cutscenes in a first person shooter should be removed entirely if you want the player to be immersed in story-driven scenes. I find myself losing interest in a cutscene in a first person shooter, rather, when there is no cutscene, I listen a lot harder because (for the hundreth time) I feel that I am really there. Being able to move and look freely makes you feel like you are there, and it doesn't go against the rules of writing, which are: don't tell the reader, show them. An example would be: I was scared, could be changed to, my heart was beating so hard I could feel it, and my eyes searched the rooms for anything that could be dangerous. Obviosly, the second passage sounds a lot better than the first. In my opinion, eliminating cut-scenes would gurantee that the player would be more immersed.

another thing, I believe that it WOULD NOT be as scary if you were to see a scary scene in a cutscene, rather than see it for yourself.

Kage:
Hey, I posted these lines ages ago and you all ignored me, credit where credits due

seta com_blood "0"
seta cg_gibs "0"

This is configurations for no bllod.. no gib

And also, this has become a frightening cockfight over who's preffered system/graphics chipset is the most manly, open you're eyes past the testosterone clouds and see the reason this forum was started, help. There are a bunch of noobs hanging around in the background with legitimate problems an you all just ignore them, impart what Im sure is vast wisdom behind the catfights on them and get their game running.

Now thats my bitch of the week

Blackhawk: that feud stoped a while back, don't worry. :D And kudos for getting those lines first.

And I agree Hunter, I was thinking about the pinky demon in the beathroom and how that wouldn't work if the player had control, but who knows, that might not even be IN the game.

hey blackhawk, I tried those lines and I am pretty sure that they didn't do much.

And kage, that pinky demon scene was probably the only scene that needed to be staged. But who knows, ID might be able to put you in control while the demon is ripping the guy up. I was thinking that you couldn't move and you could just look around.

and also, the reason we ignore them is because they all have the same problem and I am sure the answer is in this thread somewhere. They need to make an FAQ so we stop having people asking the same questions.

Every time i open doom 3 it says it couldent load default.cfg someone please help!!!!!!!!!

Every time i open doom 3 it says it couldent load default.cfg someone please help!!!!!!!!!

There are another leaked version over the internet.
Older than the E3 version (probably on APPLES SHOW when Stevie Jobs introduced gforce3).
this is not a playable demo. but some model that are missing from the E3 version can be found there.
I saw some screen shots from my local Pirate.
I will try the dawmed thing.

LOOK,I KNOW U PPL GET HYPER WHEN U READ THAT SOMEONE TELLS U EXACTLY WHERE TO FIND DOOM 3 ALPHA.FIRST OF ALL,99% ARE FAKE AND 1% THEY DONT TELL.MY BEST ADVICE TO U IS TO DOWNLOAD IT FROM KAZAA.SEARCH FOR doom_3.rar AND A COUPLE OF TIMES ITS GONNA SHOW THAT THERE ARE NO SUCH FILES.I KEPT CLICKING SEARCH 20 TIMES AND FINALLY IT FOUND IT.SO DONT GIVE UP, JUST KEEP CLICKING SEARCH AND IT WILL SHOW UP SOONER OR LATER.IF ANY1 HAS AN IDEA HOW TO SEND THE 375MB FILE, ILL SEND IT TO ANY1 THAT WANTS IT.IM NOT GONNA LAUGH AT YOUR FACE FOR NOT HAVING IT,LIKE THOSE OTHER IDIOTS THAT KEEP EVERYTHING FOR THEMSELVES!!

AMF!!!!!

at kazzaa just type in doom 3 and it will come up

First off, thanks for all the help from everyone in this huge ass thread! So I might as well throw my problem in and make it a little longer: I'm getting the stupid grey screen on load as others have experienced, the only difference is that I had it up and running fine yesterday on my 9500 Pro, then I updated the drivers and, bam, there it is. I know I can go ahead and revert back to the old driver but I thought I'd put this out there and see if anyone would know why this new driver might cause this or have experienced it themselves. Oh, and the NV30 emulator is only for NVidia cards as I understand it so that doesn't help... Any suggestions would be great... Thanks again all!

Shittss... I Upgrade from Win2k to WinXP and my Doom III that was running smooth ..now is stopping time by time due to memory usage.

My system was:
Windows2000
AthlonXP 1800
512RAM DDR
Radeon 9700 PRO
Asus A7N8x-Dx
And I am from BRASIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now.. I exchange Win2k for WinXP and the dawmed operacional system eates a lot of Ram. I will buy another 256 RAM module.

thanks

How do I get mouse look to work? I've also lost the ability to fire with the mouse button.

hi i cant seem to get any sound in my game, is there any tweaking you need to do to get it to work? and could you post your WHOLE doom3.cfg file in case im missing something? thanks

I still think win 98 is the best for gaming.

also if you have win xp go to classic, it turns off all the useless yet beautiful fading effects and other stuff. I can't beleive Microsoft would have their own operating system take up a whole lot of ram. Retarded.

Well hello everyone. I would first like to thank all of you kind folks who have posted questions and answers. It has helped me out tremendiously to find the answers to all of the questions I have been haveing. Glad to say I finaly have the game up and running and it is beutiful. Absolutely gorgious. And to think, the last game this comapny made was RTCW. The step in quality is simply breathtaking!

But enough ranting. I was curious:
I know the postings tell me that "map fred/e3bathroom5" doesn't work for MOST people.

Well who does it work for?!

It just seems as though: If we all have the same files, and we all have roughly similar systems, that it should either work for most everyone or not work at all.

If anyone has been able to access this map, please tell me what is on your computer that's not on mine. Or at least tell me what I'm missing so I can continue to drool over myself until the reliease of the game.

Thank 'yall very much.
-Petey

Petey: I can't remember where or how, but there is somewhere where it tels toy how to get into the map file and edit it so it's playable. I think its hidden in this topic somewhere.

IN FACT WHEN YOU POST A QUESTION, MAKE SURE IT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN ASKED AND ANSWERED BY SOMEONE, JUST IN CASE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO REPEAT OURSELVES.

hi,

wow, actually read the whole thread, damn shit :)

many posts bout performance, some bout crashes but actually NO ONE has answered the problem with crash of doom 3 just in the beginning!

I have the same problem.
doom starts showing its blue status window just with 1 line in it (doom3.v02 win-x86 bla bla) ''working'' few secs
then rfc radiant app. has encountered serious error....

ok i tried it with dx8, dx9, normal doom.exe, no intro fixed.exe (which loads a bit longer) , but nothings working!!!
doom ever crashes at offset '001baec5'

also tried some config changes, nv30 emulation but i don't think there is any game engine already loaded in this stage.

can't anyone help me/us with this fucking problem!!???
perhaps some cracker here inside?? :-)

PLSPLSPLS i also wanna see my comp. fucking at 2 fps

hi gain,

think i got it, found the answer on 'nother board www.doom3world.org.

Problem is i'm still using a p2 350 with gf2 mx400 and 256mb ram. YES you read right! should be fucking slow for the alpha, but i just wanted to test it, but i think problem is that doom doesn't support the p2, so everybody who else has same problem like me, maybe its because of processor.

k thank for ya time,
any feedback welcome :)

ok, gain me,

i really got it now, its problem with p2 which doesn'T support movntq instruction, so i patched the .exe file using movq instead.
NOW IT WORKS! dunno if amd k6 is also infected, so everybody who's interrested to get doom3 running on their p2/celeron whatever and wanna see why to buy a new computer just send me mail

by the way hunter how u managed to turn of sound??!?

for the blood thing, there is a command:
seta com_blood "0"
This one may also remove gibs, add it too
seta cg_gibs "0"

but i dunno if it works correctly.

ok bye gain

ps: machine specs:
PII350 GF2MX400 PCI :) 256mb pc100 memory
doom running at 5fps average (low details) no combat
combat mode <1 fps :)

to turn off sound simply type this into the console: s_noupdates

since the sound needs to be restarted you need to type this in right after that:

s_restart

This gives an immense performance gain.

Hi every body.. I am Sued. author of Cacheman Script for Doom III.
I have some great info about Doom III.
WindowsXP have some problem with sound processing in Doom3.. so.. the intro. and some sounds in the game can behave havoc some time.
The fix? Go to win2k and this problem simply disapears!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK. I have tested this tip with my friends computers..with windowsXP and Win2k.
LOOK. ALL SYSTEM WITH 512 RAM DDR 333.

I have also done ALL the available tweaks on windowxxp.;. but nothing happend!

I know.. formating the harddisk is some time boring. but I notice best performance with Windows2000. not only in Doom3.. also in Unreal2.. NeverWinter Nighs...

My System:
AthlonXP 1800
Asus A7N8XDX
512 RAM DDR333
Radeon 9700 pro 128 RAM with Catalyst 3.1
Windows2000.

@hunter

thanks, without sound its even playable on my machine

how much is win 2000?

Help!

what i'm doing wrong? i'm executing
"doom.exe map e3/e3_1"
the game starts and i can hear sounds
but screen is white and i see nothing

when i hit the ` key (console) and type "quit"
the game exists which means that everything
works except graphics

i have duron900 / gf4 mx440 512mb sdram winxp and win2k dx8.1 and dx9

any ideas?

Nice question. I don´t know how much win2k costs!
(mey win2k was a gift from my Job).

I am wondering how doom3 development is going!!!
There are any official site?

hey vEpaR, I don't think that problem has even been solved yet. There are a lot of people that have your same problem.

vEpaR install the detinator driver do fix the blank game screen in doom 3
i instaled 41.09 and its fine now, minus framerates

does anybody use win 98 anymore? I don't feel like spending 90 bucks on xp home just for it to take up more ram. (but I need it to get the latest and greatest video cards.)

I need the model and GUI folders for doom 3! LOOK IN YOUR DOOM 3 FOLDERS AND ZIP IT. SEND IT TO ME. IM BEGGIN YOU GUYS!!!

OK guys listen up, I have no idea why you are all flashing you systems off and complaining that you cannot run the game properly even tho you have a good machine. THIS IS AN ALPHA VERSION. no alpha version runs good, just wait for the beta version and make some judgments.

i think aslong as you can run games like UNREAL 2 you will be fine.

i would suggest to the Geforce 4 mx users , get a new card ;)

The alpha version is not fully optimized for any graphics card, there is absaloutly no point in comparing system and finding out who runs it betta, most of the ppl here will run the demo fine, Just wait :)

thanks

matt

When I get the game going it is running in window mode. How do I get the full screen to work?

hey whoa, we all just want to improve performance, after all this is a help forum.

Hi I would like to ask,whare can I find DOOM III ALPHA?

download kazzaa and search for it there. By the way READ THE ENTIRE THREAD BEFORE POSTING A QUESTION THAT HAS BEEN ANSWERED ALREADY.

Hi,thanks that means I will have to go to kazaa download it & then when i will download it I just search for DOOM III?

Holy shit guys!!....I just read all the posts from November till now..Jordan..some funny shit..Well..i have a P4. !.7 and 512 ddr ram(266)uhh...oh a 9700 non pro(havent figured out just how to overclock yet) and im getting decent rates...about 36 when walking...19 firing....i also had a Geforce mx440(ddr) I will say that i liked it but a few weeks ago i couldnt take it anymore and i mean having no features at all really...well...alittle..anyways...it couldnt play battle feild for shit really. I bought a saphire radeon 9700 for 230 bucks(tax return boys!) and now im in bussiness! Im not sure how much a gf 4 ti 4600 is but im sure its close no?....and when i overclock the bitch ill be golden.How do ya beat that...
P.4 1.7 400 fsb
9700 non pro
512 ddr 266
30 gig 7200rpm
and my moniter blows because its my old gateway(it is flat screen 17 inch though)
.................later

Hi, I want to ask you something,will DOOM III ALPHA run at 800X600 resolution and on maximum quality on AMD 2100+,512 MB DDR & ATI RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB card

Yo....predator....the alpha demo may play but it will be slow as shit...mines kinda slow and we have similar systems.....i have a better graphics card....thats why i say it will play but be slow.....i did a lot of research and it seems to me that if your comp can even get image quality from the demo...meaning you see all the shit....you should be 100 percent golden to run the final product as it will have stuff added to it so it plays on "lower end comps"......i guess the better it plays now(the alpha) the better you should have it(all eye candy on ect...) when the final product comes out. It should be out ethier this month or next as John Carmack says...and i qoute..."I dont like to repeat projects at e3".....e3 comes up pretty soon.And just think for 2 secs...the best card avalable right this second...(i hate to admit it...) is the gf fx...followed very closely by the r300(9700pro) and with that being the case...why would anyone coming out with a new game make it only for the top 2....when 75-80 percent of "us" gamers dont have the top of the line. i myself do have a radeon 9700 pro....so i know. My guess for min sys. req. are:(remember...these are min)
p3700-800
256mb ram
geforce2 and up
I would recomand a p4 with about 1gig + 512 ram with a gefore 3 and up...outta get the job done!

Hi I wish toknow if DOOM III ALPHA will run at 640x400 & minimum quality on AMD 1900 +,512 MB DDR & ATI RADEON 9000 PRO 64 MB

uac marine........im no pro....i do know that you will be able to run"or play" the game...on lower settings but the demo is too power hungry.....and hence im sure you can run it but it will be far from playable from what your specs are.......but hey.try it anyway, what do you have to lose right?...prove me wrong! Take it easy....
tripp

Great I found special patch that will make DOOM III not as independable as it is with out the patch

Hi,would like to ask if DOOM III will run on medium quality but on 400x300 resolution on AMD 2100+,512 MB DDR 7 ATI RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB.Also do you think ATI RADEON 9000 PRO is better then the GEFORCE 3 TI500?

Ok....this is off topic but im giving it a shot anyway.....DOES ANYONE AT ALL, KNOW HOW TO OVERCLOCK A RADEON 9700 NON pro?? Ive heard you can do it with a 9500 but it doesnt have 256 bit memory like the 9700pro...the non pro does too so if i can over clock it...it will be a 9700 pro......I heard you need to soder....i also heard you have to flash your bios with a real 9700pro bios...then use a tweaker.....i dont know........anyone got any helpful info??????

tripp if you don't know what your doing you better as hell not do it. Flashing your bios with the wrong bios driver is a HUGE no-no, it can make your computer stop fuctioning or worse. If you do know what your doing, well, then give it a try. Overclocking voids the warrenty and you might have to put more cooling components on the card.

I've got the "gray flickry blues"
Can some one help?

When I start the game all I get is a gray screen but I can hear the game going...AND the NV30 programe from Nvidia DOSE NOT HELP.. because I still get the @$%^$ gray screen.

thanks

@UAC MARINE

what u mean with indepenable ??

i would like for som one to email a site that works to get doom 3 alpha
i have tried all the links here but none seem to work
thx to the one that would do that
shuda

o i forgot my e-mail is shuda6969@hotmail.com

I mean that it will run better and faster!!!!!!1

I found most of your configs to be lame and slow, heres my config, gets 30-60 fps on my machine:

Athlon 1800XP,
512mb 333Mhz Ram
GeForce4 ti440
WinXP

-----------------------------------------

unbindall
bind ENTER "_button2"
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind SPACE "_moveup"
bind + "sizeup"
bind - "sizedown"
bind / "weapnext"
bind 0 "weapon 10"
bind 1 "weapon 1"
bind 2 "weapon 2"
bind 3 "weapon 3"
bind 4 "weapon 4"
bind 5 "weapon 5"
bind 6 "weapon 6"
bind 7 "weapon 7"
bind 8 "weapon 8"
bind 9 "weapon 9"
bind = "sizeup"
bind [ "weapprev"
bind \ "_mlook"
bind ] "weapnext"
bind _ "sizedown"
bind a "_moveleft"
bind c "_movedown"
bind d "_moveright"
bind s "_back"
bind w "_forward"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind PAUSE "pause"
bind UPARROW "_forward"
bind DOWNARROW "_back"
bind LEFTARROW "_left"
bind RIGHTARROW "_right"
bind ALT "_strafe"
bind CTRL "_attack"
bind SHIFT "_speed"
bind DEL "_lookdown"
bind PGDN "_lookup"
bind END "flashlight"
bind F1 "spawn monster_zombie_fat"
bind F2 "spawn monster_zombie_commando_cgun"
bind F3 "spawn monster_demon_pinky"
bind F4 "spawn monster_demon_imp"
bind F5 "spawn monster_demon_hellknight"
bind F6 "spawn monster_ghostskull_ghostskull"
bind F7 "spawn char_scientist1"
bind F11 "screenshot"
bind MOUSE1 "_attack"
bind MOUSE2 "_strafe"
bind MOUSE3 "_zoom"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapnext"
bind MWHEELUP "weapprev"
seta com_drawfps "1"
seta cl_yawspeed "140"
seta cl_pitchspeed "140"
seta sensitivity "5"
seta m_pitch "0.022"
seta m_yaw "0.022"
seta m_forward "0.25"
seta m_side "0.25"
seta m_smooth "1"
seta vid_xpos "3"
seta vid_ypos "22"
seta r_useFence "1"
seta com_maxfps "200"
seta name "xxx"
seta sv_maxclients "8"
seta g_maxGameClients "0"
seta g_log "games.log"
seta g_logSync "0"
seta g_showcamerainfo "0"
seta g_showGun "1"
seta com_drawhud "1"
seta r_exportmd5 "1"
seta g_flashlight_maxangle "22.0"
seta g_flashlight_lag "0.1"
seta g_flashlight_x "10"
seta g_flashlight_y "-17"
seta g_flashlight_bob_x "2"
seta g_flashlight_bob_y "2"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_x "0.33"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_y "0.25"
seta g_flashlight_shader "lights/flashlight3"
seta s_reverse "0"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_roomAcoustics "1"
seta s_reverbPercentage "20"
seta s_reverbTime "0"
seta s_FXChannelReturnVolume "0"
seta s_linearFalloff "1"
seta s_volume_dB "0"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_wallReflection "0.3"
seta s_passBand "14000"
seta s_stopBand "22050"
seta s_minPassTap "0.075"
seta s_flAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_frAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_lfeAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rlAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rrAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cacheAlwaysLoad "0"
seta s_cacheSize "16"
seta in_mouse "1"
seta r_varmegs "92"
seta net_socksPassword ""
seta net_socksUsername ""
seta net_socksPort "1080"
seta net_socksServer ""
seta net_socksEnabled "0"
seta r_mergeShadows "0"
seta image_maxPreload "0"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_compressBump "1"
seta image_compressSpecular "1"
seta image_compressDiffuse "1"
seta image_depth "0"
seta image_roundDown "1"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_anisotropy "1"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST"
seta r_shadowMapBias "0"
seta r_specular "1"
seta r_debugLineWidth "0"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "0"
seta r_useStandardGL "1"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "0"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "0"
seta r_gammaScale "1"
seta r_gammaBias "0"
seta r_stepGamma5 "16"
seta r_stepGamma4 "32"
seta r_stepGamma3 "196"
seta r_stepGamma2 "64"
seta r_stepGamma1 "128"
seta r_brightness "1"
seta r_gamma "2"
seta r_swapInterval "0"
seta r_customHeight "486"
seta r_customWidth "720"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "7"
seta r_multiSamples "0"
seta r_stereo "0"
seta r_depthbits "24"
seta r_stencilbits "8"
seta r_colorbits "32"
seta r_ext_vertex_array_range "1"
seta r_ext_texture_env_combine "1"
seta r_ext_texture_edge_clamp "1"
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "0"
seta r_ext_compress_textures "0"

from what I heard the thing that will give you the most performance increase is to overclock your front side bus (fsb). I heard that doom 3 is very fsb dependant for a good, smooth framerate.

I have downloadet Doom III Alpha Lead from KazaA a weeks long every night with my slow 56k Modem. But I have a big Problem!!! It's a rar-File, and I don't know what to do with it!!! When I click on it, an emty DOS-Screen appears a second long and then it disappears, and that's all. Nothing more, nothing happens, NO DOOM III STARTS. The File has 360 Megabyte, and it seems to be for nothing... Please help me - what is to do? It could not be for nothing, is's such a big File.

Oh, sorry for the mistake to post my message 3 times... I made some grammatical mistakes and had to correct them... IT WOULD BE GREAT TO PLAY DOOM III - BUT THAT SHIT RAR-FILE DOESNT START UP MY MOST WANTED HORROR GAME... Please help me...

umm, nightmAir, this question has been answered a hundred times, open winrar and find the file, then extract it.

I too am looking for the Alpha. If someone out there would like to e-mail me a real working link to the .rar - would be much appreaciated. :)

info@vacsew.com

download kazaa and just search doom 3. Its that simple. Get adaware to destroy the evil spyware

Well - I already tried that.... 3 times..... each file I downloaded contained programs other than Doom 3. People are zipping up all kinds of stuff and calling it doom 3. I even d/l'd a file called doom_iii.rar and it was NOT Doom.... :(

Hey everybody, do you think that DOOM III alpha will run at 800X600 & maximum quality my PC.

Specs

AMD-2100+
512 MB DDR
ATI RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB with DIRECTX 9

Hi I NEED HELP!!!!

i just downloaded doom and i no it works on another computer cos ive tried it but on my computer it doesnt work!! I click the DoomIII.exe file and the blue screen checking a list of files and then a grey screen appears!! and it says 'Radiant MFC has encountered a problem and needs to close'. It doesnt even get to the intro and i cant even do the console!
I have a AMD 1800XP (1.53GHZ)
256 MB RAM
HERCULES PROPHET 4500 64MB

CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!

if yes my email is James@shepherd6456.freeserve.co.uk

VACMAN, its 364 megs. Anything else is not doom 3

there is so much crap wrong with the alpha it is almost a 50-50 chance that it will not work on your comp.

Well... It is an alpha, never intended for use outside of e3, or the id labs machines.

Does Anyone No how i can get it to work!! it keeps sayin Radiant MFC appplication has encountered a problem and needs to shut down

well can anyone help??
i posted one on earlier but no one answered,does anyone no?

If you download the file from Kazza and all you got wuz the Base folder and no exe file. Repair the archive (file) with RAR and then extract the repaired archive. It worked for me

(after downloading it twice on a dail up)

Its been awhile since i last posted......hey hunter...i uh....flashed my saphire non pro(9700) with pro bios and it starts up at pro speeds...3d mark went up 2000 points! I overclocked the shit out of it and i also took off the sham...its a metal peice under the heatsink....im clocked at about 350 core/324 memory....and i overclocked my front side bus and memory.....and MAN do i see a HUGE difference in game play....its really like nite and day.....it plays really smooth...and thats with no patches...ill try those tonight. I went from 36 fps max(before i tweaked card and system) to 69-75 fps max stable after tweak. So...i recomend all the people in hear that are struggling with the demo to (BE VERY CAREFUL!!!) tweak there graphic cards...overclock alittle...and overclock front side bus and memory.
P4 1.7@2.0
512 ddr 266 @ 355
97nonpro275/275@350/324
400 front side bus @ 530

Ive had this Leak for a few days and i been teaking it nicelly and just goofing with stuff. I nboticed when i do a NoClip at Map e3/e3_3 at the very end when you kill that big Creature NoClip threw the door and u can see a Full detailed Model of another Creature in the Walls :) looks Sweet but anyways Im Highly Excited and cant wait for the game to be released i got 2 ScreenShots up and running at http://www.chosen-ones.dedicatedplay.com/doom3pic/

Well actually make that

http://www.chosen-ones.dedicatedplay.com/images/Doom3SS.JPG

&

http://www.chosen-ones.dedicatedplay.com/images/doom3.jpg

Hey all there is a way to benchmark your system using doom3. Bring down the consol and type in timedemo activate_demo1
When it's done it will show you an average frame rate. This can do away with "I get 20-30." this is a more scientific way of testing your tweaks.
for more demos go to
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/doom3-benchmark/

Hey all there is a way to benchmark your system using doom3. Bring down the consol and type in timedemo activate_demo1
When it's done it will show you an average frame rate. This can do away with "I get 20-30." this is a more scientific way of testing your tweaks.
for more demos go to
http://www.digital-daily.com/video/doom3-benchmark/

GGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've downloaded the game deleted the doomconfig.cfg file nd read ALL the threads here and can still not find any clue to how to get rid of that Fu**ing grey screenit starts with that blue loading thingy wich reads alot of things and then the grey screen comes and if i close the grey screen the blue screen says:
ERROR: GL_SelectTexture: unit = 1
********************
Error during initialization
Please help me i don't know what to do i really really want to try this game...

Got the same problem. pppPPLEEEEEAAASSsse Help.

when i first start the alpha all i get is a flashing screen i cant see anything! Help me please!

I am not even sure if that problem has been solved yet. I don't think it has, and like I said, you have about 50-50 chance of getting it to work right.

@UAC MARINE:

and where to get that patch!??????

@Jim

read my posts above, and send me mail then i can help ya

@jim

oh sorry, just mixed s.th up, but maybe i can help if u tell me the offset at which it crash.

just click on more info, there should be:
module: doom.exe
offset: 0x1a2b3...

or s.th like this

well, i have the game installed, i've messed with the config and such, but I havea problem i havn't found on any other message boards...

when i load a map, it'll load, then i'll hear some ambient noises, but the screen is black, and I get an error saying
'rigid body for entity da_func_moveable_1 not really at rest
rigid body for entity func_moveable_4 not really at rest'
i've traced these both to one config file thing, but I don't know what to do to fix it.

anyone else have this problem/know how to fix it?

downloading the demo of Doom3 wondering if it would run good on my computer, specs:

Pentium4 2.0ghz
768ddr 266mhz ram
Radeon 9700 Pro
30.0gb harddrive
19" Envision Monitor
Microsoft 3 piece 300watt speakers

Hey aman, itl work great on that, you should have the full experience for graphics with a radeon 9700 pro, but you should look into a surround sound system if you want good sound. I got a 4 piece surround with subwoofer and the game sounds excellent.

I downloaded a game and it comes in a dos window and shuts down really quick? i dont understand why the f**** it is messing up. A little help anyone? thanks

let me rephrase that, i download a file named
doom 3.exe full game (id software).exe
i double click on it and it shows up in a dos window and it says something really quick and shuts down, unfortunately it shuts down to quick to read it. Anyone help me out with this problem? thanks alot.

i have serve based computer which is quite powerful it has 400 p4;s clutered into one (u can thing what a hell lot of power would be that) but it is i get more than 1500 fps in quake3 and i want to run doom3 on it is it possible there is a patch av.. for it reply soon

Hi all. I have the Alpha Version now but when i run it the window is going to be grey. What can i do?

I have 2,4GHZ,GF 4 TI 4600 and 512 Mb Ram.

I think the problem is Windows XP. With the compatible mode it doesnt work. PLZZZZZZZZZ help me

Hi when i start the game the window is going to be grey. I have windows XP i think thats the problem what can i do to play with sound and good grafic(lol)? PLZZZZ help me

@rocky lol!!

Why does nobody answer? Is the grey window only by XP? yes or? Because my other pc with ME works but the XP not why? Is there no answer?

Ok guys i know now what the problem is. i fixed it and now it works but i have a question.

I have: 2,4GHz,GF 4 TI 4600 and 512 MB Ram.
ID Software showed Doom 3 on the E3 right? This is the version what was showed on the E3 right? ok. And they had a : 2,2GHz Pc with Radeon 8500 and.....
ITs slower then mine and mine is ok but sometimes under 20FPS. Why did they use a 2,2GHZ pc? It ruckeled or?

How did you fix the grey screen? I have the same problem, running Windows XP with an ATI Rage 128 Pro.

HOLY ****!!!! 400 p4s? *bows down to his master*
how did u manage to get all of those into one? that is crazy.... and what video card u got?

About what or whom do you talk about? 400p4s? All into one? Who do you mean?

rock had 400 pentium4 processors into one computer
*his post:

i have serve based computer which is quite powerful it has 400 p4;s clutered into one (u can thing what a hell lot of power would be that) but it is i get more than 1500 fps in quake3 and i want to run doom3 on it is it possible there is a patch av.. for it reply soon

Posted by: rocky on March 25, 2003 04:10 PM

Hahahahaha, i can't belive you stupid fools accualy beleave that 12yr old attention seeker...

NO operating system in exsistance can utilise 400 CPUs at once, plus there are many other factors that prove that it is bullshit.

1500 FPS? hahahaha

why did you post that three times?

I think 400 cpus would rocket the fps higher than that, for one, no motherboard can hold 400 cpus, two, like ralphy said, no OS can use them all, and three, 400 p4 cpus would cost a f*cking fortune, not to mention the cooling of the giant motherboard lol.

Acualy no, it wouldnt rocket the FPS higher than that, it wouldnt even reach 1500 cause quake3 wouldnt even use 2% of those 400 cpus...

Maybe 400 Radeon r350's would...

when i use win rar and doubble click the exe the blue console pops but it says couldn't loud dfault.cfg( heres wat it says DOOM 0.02 win-x86 Jul 23 2002
...detecting CPU, found AMD w/ 3DNow!
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
C:\My Documents\filelib\New Folder\Doom_III/base

----------------------
idPacketServer::Kill: server thread not active
idRenderer::Shutdown()
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...shutting down QGL
==== Game Shutdown ====
==== Map Shutdown ====
Clearing targets
-----------------------------------
Shutdown event system
...not started
-----------------------------------
Couldn't load default.cfg
)and i triyed renaming moving delating modyifing and it still wont run

WHEN I CLICK ON DOOM TO PLAY...IT TURNS INTO A WINDOW AND THEN GOES WHITE....IVE USED THE VERSION I HAVE BEFORE AND NO PROBS.
ASUS NFORCE2
784 DDR2700
VISIONTEK GEFORCE 4 4600 DET. 4305
DX 9.0A
AMD XP2600
CAN SOMEONE HELP ME OUT

ok, i need a good link or something so i can get the demo, i have a nice computer and it should run, not only that but i have some friends that would like to see it...... soo if you have a way for me to get the demo E-mail me @ Will@bluehairedfreak.tk or Error404_will@hotmail.com

thxs a lot

VAI TODO MUNDO TOMAR NO CU!
SÓ TEM FILHO DA PUTA AQUI! QUEM FOR AMERICANO VAI SENTAR NO PAU DO SADDAN HUSSEN!
E QUE SE FODA .. VAI ENVADIR A CASA DO CARALHO. NEGOZIM FICA JOGANDO ESSA PORRA DE MATAR MATAR.. VAI MATAR SUA MÃE PORRA.
NÃO FODE.
E EU SEI QUE AMERICANO SE AMARRA EM DAR O CU!
E DOOM´VAI SER O DESTINO DO CU DE VOCÊS!

YOU ARE DICK CHEESE WHO SAID 1500fps on 400p4s n quake3 lol you cock eye haha i get 350+fps on 1600x1200 32bit r_picmip 0 on my raedon9700 pro haha and bye the way quake3 carnt get over 500fps no matter wat res you put it on lol 400 P4's OMG fucken n00b heaven :P

I just downloaded Doom III Leach and as i ran it, a blank gray screen with the mouse pointer ran...I checked back and saw this error message in ze blue...

********************
ERROR: GL_SelectTexture: unit = 1
********************
Error during initialization

... Can SOMEONE HELP! :-(

Fyi, i just wanted to know what that error meant, you see, i'm not entirely computer literate, i would call myself a lil' above amateur :-p

This may be of interest...

http://www.warezspot.com/ddl/doom.php

.rar's can be dearchived using WinRAR (www.rarsoft.com)

I've also noticed that if you use the following commands:

notarget
god
noclip

You can completely avoid the monsters. They won't attack you (and you can walk through walls). I've used this to run the game at the highest video settings possible without it crashing. As soon as the monsters attack though, it goes from 1-5 fps to less than 1 fps and dies.

If you want to take high res screens of the levels, this is a good way to go. Also, it's fun to add lights all around the monsters as they sit their and breath heavy. You can add and remove lights using various commands.

poplight

get's rid of the last light added (you can get rid of most of hte lights that belong in the map).

I've also found it useful to change the player run/walk speeds. To reverse them actually. As a default, you walk instead of run which is very uncommon for most FPS players. Type pm_runspeed 100 and pm_walkspeed 220 to reverse (fix) this situation.

About the "grey screen of death", someone posted this above (and it worked for me):

------------

Ok , eveyone who gets a grey screen and see nothing go to http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nv30_emulation and download the NV30 emulator , run it , aply it and doom will work

------------

Naturally, this only works for NVidia cards.

If you already have newer drivers than the ones that they are telling you to get (very likely), you only need to download that tiny little program at the bottom of that page (NVEmulate.exe).

Once you get it, run it, check the first box, hit apply, close the window. Make sure you undo this when you're done playing with the doom 3 alpha.

And again, remember this is only for NVidia cards (I'm under the impression that the error only occurs on NVidia cards though).

I have found out something strange about doom 3. I dont know if it relevent or anything, but i was recording doom 3 with a program and as usuall when there was some action the frames droped like hell so after a minute of recording, i quit doom 3 and whatched the vid and to my suprise, where the frames droped in the game, they were not dropped in the video.

I dont no if this applies to games but maybe if we can get doom3 to run in overlay mode it would run way way smoother.

By the way the program i used to record the game is caled fraps. It records almost anything!! even screensavers

you can get it at www.fraps.com

download fraps and record the game and u will see what i meen.

Good tip, I'll check it out to see. With the graphics set as high as possible, I get about 2 to 5 fps on my GeForce 3 Ti 200 (64MB) and P4 1.9 Ghz 256 MB RDRAM.

I need a new video card.

Ok, it isn't getting frames that you're not seeing, it's simply, it's simply recording at a faster rate than the game is playing at.

If you set it to record at 30 fps, and you're getting 15 fps in doom, then the video will have the first 30 frames (2 seconds of doom footage) as one second of video footage.

If doom is running at 5 fps and you record at 30, then you will have 6 seconds of doom footage compressed into 1 second of video footage.

Solution: lower the fps of the recorder until it is less than the fps of the thing that you're recording.

the new nvidia drivers are causing the grayscreen guys.

i found a doom 3 file but its in exe and 364.10mb...can it still be the game?

ene1 here think that that amd 1.8(1.53ghz) with geforce ti 4200 128 and 512 pc 266 of ram can run doom 3 at a respectable framerate ???. Im just worried that if i downlod doom 3 leak it would just be a slide show. btw the true game is about 362 mb in a .rar file. just heard it from the other forums beware of the fake ones ok. just donlod it on kazaa (i prefer kazaa lite, no commercials and no spyware) then dl the kazaa cheat that raises you participation level.

can some place send me the activate_demo1.demo file, its the only file that was currpoted and the only file i need to get d3 working.

my msn is swifty207@hotmail.com

please

Use this link:

http://www.warezspot.com/ddl/doom.php

And considering the nature of the site, it'll probably be there for a while.

Btw, the .exe might work (it could be a self-extracting file instead of a standard .rar file).

a guy...I love you

hrrmm....nope its a rar file- trying to use it as a self extracting file just ask windows to open it with a program.

What I want to see is someone with a Radeon 9800 Pro (or something else real nice) make a video based on the E3 demo (running the demo file just as id did at E3) and then posting it. Someone probably did this already, but I've yet to find a link.

The best I've found is a bootleg recording from directly inside the E3 booth which has utter crap picture quality.

D3 works :D i got a another patch from kazza and it works. On a second note however i still getting fairly bad fps- i used the that blackhawks congfig file some were in the middle, should i turn anything esle off ?

a while back when the alpha first came out i downloaded and unzipped it onto my computer and it worked fine. now when i install it and try to play it, when i click on the .exe, the game window pops up but nothin but grey is inside... anyone know whats going on? its probably something real stupid that i don't remember having to do when installed it way back when, but any help would be appreciated....

For those having the grey screen problem and nvidia card, try using the 41.09 drivers it worked for me, was running on 43.45..

The grey screen problem has been addressed numerous times. Just read backwards about 10 or 15 posts (you need to get the NV30 emulator from NVidia, it's easy).

And swifty, you just need to edit your DoomConfig.cfg. I have a high quality version and a low quality version (one for taking pictures, and one for playing). I'll paste my low quality config in here in just a second, but first some notes.

If you want to look at the game in ultra high quality, give it a shot. But if your framerates are really low (less than 10 fps) before you see monsters, you had better type in "god", "noclip" and "notarget" at the console. These will stop the monsters from attacking you (I think noclip is the only essential one) and keep you alive. It also lets you walk through walls, but you have to deal with that (notarget doesn't seem to work properly, the mosnters still attack). It's not actually the monsters visible presence, but their AI and physics that cause your frames to dive.

Another tip is to find out how to turn off the sound, I've heard that increases the framerates, but personally, I'd rather cut into the graphics more.

s_noupdates 1
s_restart

Those two commands (in order) will kill the sound.

Games suck without sound though. Now, I have my r_mode set to 3 (640x480) in this config, but you can go lower for even better framerates (and downright hideous graphics). Just type r_mode 1 in the console, then type vidrestart. You probably already knew that much.

The particular things you should note in my config are the lower bit depth, the lack of hud and gun, the lack of specular/bump mapping, the compressed textures and the lack of shadows. Those will give you your biggest speed increases.

Finally, if you still need better frame rates, try lowering the screen size (different than changing resolution) by typing ... I forgot. Just type in the console:

clear
cmdlist
condump cmdlist.txt

then type:

clear
cvarlist
condump cvarlist.txt

These two will dump the console commands and console variables into text files for you to examine. In the cmdlist.txt look for the "sizeup" and "sizedown" (or something like that). They can give you even higher framerates.

Here's my config (note the control bindings as well, as I have some interesting tricks in there).

In particular (stuff that's not in the normal config)

bind F "flashlight" (a fun toy, but you need to make sure the variable "g_flashlight_shader" is set to "lights/flashlight2" instead of the default 3).

all of the KP group. With that, you can add lights to the world (use the "poplight" binding to get rid of the last light you added). Adding lights is a blast, especially when using noclip, then you can light up mosnters from crazy angles while they sit there looking stupid. Try it with high details.

bind MOUSE2 "toggle g_fov 90 22.5" (this gives you Quake3 style zoom, but it's instant instead of gradual; raise the second number towards 90 to make the zoom level smaller).

unbindall
bind ESCAPE "togglemenu"
bind SPACE "_moveup"
bind 0 "weapon 10"
bind 1 "weapon 1"
bind 2 "weapon 2"
bind 3 "weapon 3"
bind 4 "weapon 4"
bind 5 "weapon 5"
bind 6 "weapon 6"
bind 7 "weapon 7"
bind 8 "weapon 8"
bind 9 "weapon 9"
bind F "flashlight"
bind P "toggle r_playershadow 0 1"
bind [ "weapprev"
bind ] "weapnext"
bind a "_moveleft"
bind d "_moveright"
bind f "flashlight"
bind g "give health"
bind p "pm_stamina 0"
bind r "reload"
bind s "_back"
bind t "messagemode"
bind w "_forward"
bind ~ "toggleconsole"
bind PAUSE "pause"
bind UPARROW "toggle com_drawfps"
bind DOWNARROW "toggle com_drawhud"
bind LEFTARROW "toggle r_usestandardgl"
bind RIGHTARROW "toggle g_showgun"
bind CTRL "_speed"
bind SHIFT "_movedown"
bind F1 "testlight"
bind F2 "poplight"
bind F3 "toggle r_showprimitives 1"
bind F4 "toggle r_showportals 1"
bind F5 "toggle r_showtris 0 1 2 3"
bind F6 "toggle r_showlights 1"
bind F7 "toggle r_showlightcount"
bind F8 "toggle r_showshadows 0 1"
bind F9 "noclip"
bind F10 "god"
bind F11 "notarget"
bind F12 "screenshot"
bind KP_HOME "testlight lights/blamplight"
bind KP_UPARROW "testlight lights/brucedemo2"
bind KP_PGUP "testlight lights/duolight01"
bind KP_LEFTARROW "testlight lights/floorgrate"
bind KP_5 "testlight lights/floorvent01"
bind KP_RIGHTARROW "testlight lights/floorvent01x"
bind KP_END "testlight lights/grate4"
bind KP_DOWNARROW "testlight lights/mlight01"
bind KP_PGDN "testlight lights/spot01drk"
bind KP_MINUS "poplight"
bind KP_PLUS "testlight lights/squarelight1"
bind MOUSE1 "_attack"
bind MOUSE2 "toggle g_fov 90 22.5"
bind MOUSE3 "toggle g_fov 90 22.5"
bind MWHEELDOWN "weapprev"
bind MWHEELUP "weapnext"
seta name "BLACKWELL"
seta in_mouse "1"
seta s_cacheSize "32"
seta s_cacheAlwaysLoad "0"
seta s_rrAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_rlAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_lfeAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_cAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_frAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_flAdjust_dB "0"
seta s_minPassTap "0.075"
seta s_stopBand "14050"
seta s_passBand "14000"
seta s_wallReflection "0"
seta s_numberOfSpeakers "2"
seta s_volume_dB "0"
seta s_linearFalloff "1"
seta s_FXChannelReturnVolume "0"
seta s_reverbTime "0"
seta s_reverbPercentage "0"
seta s_roomAcoustics "0"
seta s_meterTopTime "2000"
seta s_reverse "0"
seta g_flashlight_shader "lights/flashlight2"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_y "0.25"
seta g_flashlight_bobspeed_x "0.33"
seta g_flashlight_bob_y "1"
seta g_flashlight_bob_x "1"
seta g_flashlight_y "-17"
seta g_flashlight_x "5"
seta g_flashlight_lag "0.1"
seta g_flashlight_maxangle "22.0"
seta r_exportmd5 "0"
seta com_drawhud "0"
seta g_showGun "0"
seta g_showcamerainfo "1"
seta g_logSync "0"
seta g_log "games.log"
seta g_maxGameClients "0"
seta sv_maxclients "8"
seta com_maxfps "0"
seta r_useFence "1"
seta vid_ypos "94"
seta vid_xpos "145"
seta m_smooth "1"
seta m_side "0.25"
seta m_forward "0.25"
seta m_yaw "0.033"
seta m_pitch "-0.033"
seta sensitivity "4"
seta cl_pitchspeed "120"
seta cl_yawspeed "120"
seta com_drawfps "1"
seta r_varmegs "50"
seta net_socksPassword ""
seta net_socksUsername ""
seta net_socksPort "1080"
seta net_socksServer ""
seta net_socksEnabled "0"
seta r_mergeShadows "0"
seta image_maxPreload "0"
seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_compressBump "1"
seta image_compressSpecular "1"
seta image_compressDiffuse "1"
seta image_depth "0"
seta image_roundDown "1"
seta image_downSize "0"
seta image_anisotropy "0"
seta image_filter "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
seta r_shadowMapBias "0"
seta r_specular "0"
seta r_debugLineWidth "1"
seta r_debugLineDepthTest "0"
seta r_forceLoadImages "0"
seta r_useStandardGL "1.000000"
seta r_useParhelia "0"
seta r_useNV20 "1"
seta r_useNV30 "0"
seta r_useGL2 "0.000000"
seta r_lightScale_ "2"
seta r_shadows "1"
seta r_gammaScale "1"
seta r_gammaBias "0"
seta r_stepGamma5 "16"
seta r_stepGamma4 "32"
seta r_stepGamma3 "196"
seta r_stepGamma2 "64"
seta r_stepGamma1 "128"
seta r_brightness "1"
seta r_gamma "1"
seta r_swapInterval "0"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "3"
seta r_multiSamples "0"
seta r_stereo "0"
seta r_depthbits "16"
seta r_stencilbits "0"
seta r_colorbits "16"
seta r_ext_vertex_array_range "0"
seta r_ext_texture_env_combine "0"
seta r_ext_texture_edge_clamp "0"
seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic "0"
seta r_ext_compress_textures "0"
seta pm_walkspeed "220"
seta pm_runspeed "100"

One more note. Those last two lines, I'm not sure if they work or not in the cfg. If not, you can do it in the game from the console. Just type

pm_walkspeed 220
pm_runspeed 100

This is basically like turning on "always run". When you hit the "run" key, you will walk instead. When you do nothing, you run.

What do you know, it IS sizeup and sizedown (to change the screen size for better framerates).

lol that made it worse and the textures dissapered.
but thx anywho

Just try a few things then:

r_specular 0
r_shadows 0
r_mode 1
g_showgun 0
com_drawhud 0
vidrestart

I can't imagine how those would not work, and they'll help your framerates out a lot.

Oh, and before you give up on the previous config, try hitting the Function keys (F3 to F8 in particular).

i got a problem in doom 3 ...it began when i downloaded the latest driver for my video card ....the screen turns into grey and nothing happens ...it just locks up ...so if any1 knows how to help me plz mail me @ my email coma_white_jr@hotmail.com ...and let the subject b doom 3 ....btw i got a geforce 4 4200 ti pentium 4 2 ghz and it used to run not bad ..20 - 30 fps ... plz help

Just finished downloading Doom III, made a few tweaks in the config and went for it. It runs surprisingly well on my computer (2 gig p4, radeon 9700 pro, 512 DDR) until I spawn more than 4 or 5 monsters.

I can't believe how amazing it looks. I am in complete awe.

Anyway, thank you all who helped me so very much at getting it running how I want it.

Check the 3rd post on April 13th for the solution to the grey screen problem (someone needs to stick that somewhere where everyone will see it).

Hmm.... My performance is very good with a:
P4 2.66 GHZ
1024 MB Rambus RAM
Geforce 4 Ti 4600

Provided I'm not too liberal with the settings, but, are the textures supposed to be this blurry? I walk up to any monster and see the lack of detail. Am I missing something?

I've noted that too. The filtering doesn't seem to look correct first of all, so I suspect it will look *different* (if not better) in the final product. It seems like they could bump up the resolution of the base color textures a bit.

Notice that the alpha does not have scalable texture sizes as Quake 3 did (of course, until added, you'd think that they would be using the highest resolution textures).

Oh, and try changing the rendering modes as mentioned at the very top of this page (before the message board starts).

Alpha runs very smoothly on my machine

P4 2.4
gf4 4200
512ddr

but only when I switch off sound in dxdiag

With sound the framerates drop dramatically when I shoot a baddie.Is there anyway round this in the CONFIG file?

I have a Geforce 4 ti4200 P4 1.5GHz 512mb Ram
So i don't think my computer would have that hard of a time running it...Only thing is that when i start it up i see the blue loading screen thingy with words scrolling by, but right afterwards all i get is a gray flickering screen. I have downloaded the fixes and stuff for the patch and nothing seems to work. I have the latest drivers for my video card. Someone please help

I gotta...
AMD Athlon 2100+ XP
512 SDRAM
GeForce 4 128mb MX440

to me this is a pretty good computer.. but during gameply i get about 50-60fps but buring actiona it goes to 1-7fps.. wut should i upgrade? RAM, VCard, or CPU?

when yr shooting or anything like that the fps drops because the new engine for sounds puts a load of stress on yr computer... turn off sounds and it should go fine ;)

I got a GF4 Ti4200 8x agp, 2100+ @ 2.3 GHz, 512mb DDR, getting same problem as @NU8|$, it loads but i only get a flickering grey screen. None of the fixes work, anyone got a solution?

i am thinkin that it has sumthin to do wit the GF4 Ti4200's and the drivers...u r the 3rd person that i have heard of besides me that has that problem, and all of em have GF4 Ti4200's So if n e one finds a olution please post it here

Solution**

This has been posted millions of times:
To solve the grey screen you must use the 41.09 Detonator drivers. Do that. Then you can use .

http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nv30_emulation

Then you can run doom.

thanks 4 the help guys I used the nvidia patch patch and everything ran really well.
I didnt post a question because its all there (most of it) people r just too lazy to read the whole post!
P4 2.6 gig
gforce ti4200 128 tv in + out
512 double ddr ram @800
this game runs really nice and cant wait for release
frames r 80-35 35 when killing really closely proplems with blood and monseter animations

i jus need the exe, i mean the doom3.exe, to run the game, anybody can give me this file? please, my mail es lic_666@hotmail.com

i jus need the exe, i mean the doom3.exe, to run the game, anybody can give me this file? please, my mail es lic_666@hotmail.com

i jus need the exe, i mean the doom3.exe, to run the game, anybody can give me this file? please, my mail es lic_666@hotmail.com

I have 25FPS with my

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
1024 MB DDR PC 333 RAM
Geforce 4 Ti 4600

Okay Im planing downloading the ALPHA, i just want to know how smooth will it run on my system with bump mapping & shadows 7 on 640X480 resolution.

I have a
AMD-2100+
RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB with newest CATALYST 3.1 drivers & DirectX 9.0
512 MB DDR

Okay Im planing downloading the ALPHA, i just want to know how smooth will it run on my system with bump mapping & shadows & on 640X480 resolution.

I have a
AMD-2100+
RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB with newest CATALYST 3.1 drivers & DirectX 9.0
512 MB DDR

I know this question has been asked many times, but does anybody know how to solve the problem where the game crashes just as the blue console appears? i've downloaded doom 3 2 times now and it's very annoying at the fact it doesn't even work to start with!

how do i change the keys cause i want the left and right keys to be strafe left and right

I've tried everything and I just get a white screen. I can run maps and hear the sounds of intro or game but know video. I have a P4 3.06 and a GeForce 4 ti4600.

When i start doom3 all i get is a black screen blinking with blinking flash light why ?

i got xp2200+
512 DDR
geforce4 4600 with 43.45 drivers
directx 9.a

Nevermind i got it to work by DOwnloading the NV30 emulate from nvidia.com

The first level i got up to 60 fps and as low as 20, preety good for my system.

And oh yeah the bathroom scene scared the shit out of me, so cool.

I just wanted to know if Doom III will be utilizing the new DirectX9?

I cannot find the demo anywhere! I tried all the links you all gave and they dont work...there one site it was a wherez site it wants a password and wants me to sign up for porn site.....so does anyone know a FAST place I can find the demo?

ITS FECKED!! i downloaded the 300+ bm demo of D3 alpha from kazaa (its a .exe and if u try to run it it brings up a dos box then closes in 1/10 of a second! but if u re-name it to .rar it de-compresses fine.) but everytime i try to run doom .exe a loading screen like the Q3 one runs (as normal) then a window appears titled doom 3 with nothing but a sort of a muddy yellow colour in it and the CPU usage shoots up 2 100% and sits there. nothing happens after that. iv left it for 30mins and nothing happens to the window. i copied and pasted the dommconfig contens into my doomconfig.cfg file but that just ment that the same thing happens in full screen. HELP HEEEE!!!! plus everytime iv run it, afterwards my doomconfig.cfg file looks like jibberish. (i meen TOTAL jibberish, i know what .cfg files r sposed 2 look like : p ) help mah!! ne1 who can sort this out is truly r0x0r ;p

BTW i got a

AMD athlon xp1900+
512 MB DDR ram
Gf3 Ti 500

NM sorted it now, i had to get NV30 emulate from NV.com (thanxx peter :D )

and Y'ALL GET THE .CFG FROM blackhawk, it r0x0r!!
:D

every time i try to load the game
i get crc sound error then it shut down any help
please damn i need it bad

WOW!

the controlls from blackhawk the graphix speed from jake (looks good AND goes fast! nice 1! :D )
all i need now is the command/.cfg entry for V-sync. any ideas? im getting REAL bad screen tearing. i nkow it can be done because blackhawks grafix .cfg section has v-sync... but i cant work out witch PART!!

Aight all u.............Here is what u have all been looking for.................take it...................http://www.katzwarez.com/ddl/download.php?url=http://www.warezspot.com/ddl/doom.php&title=DOOM%203%20ALPHA%20LEAK..................it werks great............type map e3/e3_1 for level 1
map e3/e3_2 for level 2
map e3/e3_3 for level 3
type these commands in console at the doom3 main menu screen...........it will werk so dont say it wont........heres the command to see the intro............... map e3/intro..............Its all working so dont complain if it dont werk rite

hey james, maybe i can help u,
what kinda processor do you have?

please, ive looked through, and none of the links work, could someone please email me a link, or post one that actually works to get to the doom 3 alpha? it would be great. thank you.

williamo9000@hotmail.com

-willior

ive got the 364mb .rar from emule and also patched it. im running a gf-ti4200 with 42.32 detonator drivers.

So all i have to do now to get past teh grey screen is to install detonator 41.09 and use the nvemulator???

please tell me if im right or not....

please post more comments, I will visit this site again

someone help please! im having this grey screen problem aslo.... the console comes up and loads everything then BAM flickering grey screen and nothin... what do i do!?

yes if you get flickering when starting the alpha you must run the NV30 emulate program, it helped me :)

can someone link me to a download of NV30 Emulator!!!!

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=nv30_emulation

Hi everyone my question is inmportant so please answer it. As far as i know some people say that my pc will only run on medium quality & 800x600 resoultion so please can someone give me a medium quality screenshots of DOOM III ALPHA or DOOM III

My PC is AMD 2100+,512 MB DDR 7 ATI RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB DDR with directX 9.0 & CATALYST 3.1

Hi everyone my question is inmportant so please answer it. As far as i know some people say that my pc will only run on medium quality & 800x600 resoultion so please can someone give me a medium quality screenshots of DOOM III ALPHA or DOOM III

My PC is AMD 2100+,512 MB DDR & ATI RADEON 9000 PRO 128 MB DDR with directX 9.0 & CATALYST 3.1

i downloaded the n30 thing and all it did was turn my gray screen to a black screen, can anyone help me?

Hey guys, I got it to work. D/Led from Kazaa "doom3.e3-demo-alpha-leak" 364MB file- also downloaded "doom_iii_alpha FIX" 3.68MB file which works as well.

Specs on my comp are
p4 1.8 williamette
512 rdram Gf3 Ti200

runs at 30fps but like 8fps when enemies are up close

http://members.aol.com/curtisbearchen/doom.jpg
for a screenshot
1024x768 shadows on, bump mapping on.

-Curtis

even with that nv30 emulator thing turned on my screen keeps flickering grey shit!
I d/l the full alpha leak + fix
and have a
geforce 2 pro
1 ghz amd
768 mb ram
win xp pro
what can be the problem????

Be sure to use good drivers, i use Nvidia 43.45 from nvidia.com on my geforce4 4800-SE 128MB Card.

dont know what else to suggest, its all about luck remeber this is an very early alpha demo.

I got it to work with older nvidia drivers
I had the 43.45 driver but it didn't work
so I installed the 40.41 driver and it worked!!!
So d/l that one, install and you're ready to go.
Works quite fine!

Peter your telling me to get the 40.41 drivers but the only drivers i can find on nvidia's sight are the 43.45 ones can u give me a url?

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_40.41

there you can get them. I have the same problem and am going to try this resolution now...

i have the nv30 thing, and i check the proper box, then click accept.. but nothing happens.. the box doesnt close and say anything.. i click accept and it just sits there with no visual or audio acnoledgment that anything happened.. is this supposed to happen? do i leave the box open after doing this and then try to run the alpha? plus.... doing that doesnt work.. the alpha still gives me a grey screen, sometimes flickering, sometimes not... i have run the alpha befor.. and it worked.. since then i have restored my pc, and redownloaded the same alpha, apllied the proper patches, done the speed increase fixes, and i have not been able to get in the game, even without doing the patches and speed fixes... i ALWAYS get either a solid grey or flickering grey... all drivers are updated. and there isnt anything left to do that i can see.. PLEASE GOD! somebody help me! i want to play this thing again :(

NO MORE! PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP!

I'm disabling comments for this story and wrapping it all up with this mini-FAQ:

Q: Where can I DL the D3 Alpha?
A: It's been around for months now, if you haven't got it yet you suck. Go away.

Q: Will the D3 Alpha run on my computer? It has XXXXX
A: I don't care, go get the damn thing and find out for yourself. It's been out for months if you haven't done it yet you suck and so does you PC.

Q: When I run the D3 Alpha I get XXXXX error and I can't continue.
A: Firstly, read something, there's a million suggestions above. It's been out for months now, surely you could have worked it out by now. Secondly I don't care, go away, you suck.

Finally: the alpha is not very big. It really shouldn't hold your interest for very long. Wait for the damn game!

More comment please? ;)

i have a P4 2,66 GHz and Radeon 9800 and it works very good; 60-70 FPS with shadows...;)

i have a P4 2,66 GHz and Radeon 9800 and it works very good; 60-70 FPS with shadows...;)
but I don't get the Bathroom level to work.

I have the alfa leaked version. I load the game and after loading it in a window then i go in fullscreen mode and nothing happens!!! Does the alfa leaked version play with direct-x 9
or direct-x 8 is required??? I have an AMD 1800+ with 512 DDR and a GeForce 3. Please HELP!!!!

anybody know the numbers for the door on the second level ??

Hello all i have a NV35, and this Nvidia error with the new drivers, how i can play the game anyway :( with an older driver my card is not supported!

Hello all i have a NV35, and this Nvidia error with the new drivers, how i can play the game anyway :( with an older driver my card is not supported!

What's wrong with your blog?

Nothing... what's wrong with yours?

HAHAHAH SUCK SHIT BLOG SPAMMER!!! YOU FUCKING LOSER!!!!!

Tried to link to his shitty little website by spamming my blag and FAILED!

EAT SHIT WANKER!

Hmm 'spamming my blag', sounds like a good domain name...

Ok. I have the real doom 3 alpha leak. My specs: NV-Ge4600 128MB DDR, 2.7GHz Athlon.

Now my question to anyone who can answer it.

[When I go to the ~ screen, I type which ever level I want to play, but when it gets to the loading screen, it takes FOREVER... then, on whichever level i pick, different errors occur. Now... it kind of loads, but it doesn't run.]

The Errors:

On Map e3/e3_1: "map e3/e3_1.AAS96 out of date"

On Map e3/e3_2: "rigid body for entity[_______]not really at rest"
The [____] are 2 seperate things.
#1: "da_func_movable_1"
#2: "func_movable_4"

On Map e3/e3_3: "spawn class on "mal_func_clipmodel_3"

If ANYONE out there can help me with these problems, then please e-mail me at nemoeighteen@hotmail.com, or post after this comment with the answers.

[THX]