MULTIPLAYER WORKS!!! How? Mwah ha, stay tuned...

Note: You don't need to use the exec runact.cfg command. That information was originally posted on this site, very early on. It has since been discovered that the command is not necessary. Please let people know; there's no use in having to wait for five minutes every time you load the game.

New instructions to get up and running (basic solution, for tweaks see further down the page) :

After you unrar, just go to the Doom_III\base directory, and DELETE the DoomConfig.cfg file. Then launch doom.exe. The game will rebuild that config file and give you better default settings.

To interact with the game at this point, you'll be using the console. Press the tilde key (~) once you're at the main screen.

INDEX

Loading Maps

Controls and settings

Popular Commands

Recording demos

Making a demo into an avi

Important Links

Cheats / Hints


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Loading maps


From the console, use the following commands:

  • map e3/intro (Loads intro movie)
  • map e3/e3_1 (Loads first map)
  • map e3/e3_2 (Loads second map)
  • map e3/e3_3 (Loads third map)
  • map fred/e3bathroom5 (doesn't work for most people)

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Controls and settings

Type: bindlist

This will list all the currently bound keys and their functions. Use the page up and page down keys to scroll through the list. As long as you deleted the doomconfig.cfg before you started up, your settings should be pretty good.

To change any of these settings, you can either type in different values from the console, or just manually change the doomconfig.cfg with a text editor.

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Popular commands

Checking FPS: type 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

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Recording demos

I haven't seen this posted anywhere yet, so I figured I'd draw up a quick how-to.

Type the following:

bind F5 recordDemo
bind F6 stoprecording

These two binds will give you keys for starting and stopping a demo, respectively. You can substitute in the keys you prefer, it doesn't matter. In this case, when you want to start capturing the action in the game, press F5. When you're done, press F6.

The demo files are stored in your Doom_III\base\demos folder. They will be labelled incrementally, e.g. Demo001.demo, demo002.demo, etc. To play back your demo within the game, type playdemo demo001 (or whatever the demo filename happens to be).

However, to get your demo into a movie format, there's a few extra steps.

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Making a demo into an avi

  1. After you've got a good demo, type aviDemo (for example, aviDemo demo001).
    This will play back your demo while taking a whole bunch of screenshots. When it's done, exit the game and look in your "Doom_III\base\demos\demoname" folder. Depending upon how long your demo was, you could have anywhere from 100mb to 10 gigs of .tga files.

  2. Download this program and run it: http://www.css.tayloru.edu/~btoll/f99/350/res/pjBmp2Avi.zip

  3. From the program's main screen, in the Directory field, type in the path to your demo's screenshots folder. (The "Doom_III\base\demos\demoname" I described above). A quicker way is to click the "..." button and just browse to the directory.

  4. Change the file option from BMP to TGA. You should then see a list of all the screenshots appear in the "Files" field.

  5. Under "Output" options, type the path and name of the avi you wish to create (e.g., "C:\movies\doom3rocks.avi")

  6. Leave the default Frame and Key Rates (if any of you movie experts suggest a better setting, let me know).

  7. Click the create button. A new window will pop up, prompting you to select a video codec. I suggest you use Divx 5.0.2. After you click OK, the program will compile your .tga files together.

  8. After the window closes, you're done! Go to the target directory you specified, and watch your first Doom 3 movie =)

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Important Links

Screenshots, more hints: http://meineseite.i-one.at/fz80297/test/doom3a.htm

More screenshots: http://thebuzzer.reallyrules.com/doom3/

Text file with cvars: http://folk.uio.no/magnusn/doom3/cvarlist.txt

Tweaking thread: http://64.81.178.14/~K8a7a000/A1/F4/article/0/134994

Source of the leak?? http://www.geeknewz.com/comments.php?catid=1&id=2030

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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