Hey guys, I know theres alot of stuff out there on this issue, however everyone's response seems to be update your drivers and direct x, or they don't have minimum requirements met. Well I have a beast of a machine considering the requirements, and have already updated DirectX to version 10, my graphics card is currently running on catalyst control center version 7.6, because 7.8 does not seem to like the adapter for my new video card. I have a Radeon X1950 Pro 256 MB this is the error it tells me when i run the DOOMDED exe, because when i run the regular exe, it just plain won't load and windows XP pops up an exception saying "Doom 3 needs to close" DOOM 1.3.1302 win-x86 May 12 2005 10:43:45 2795 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT 2048 MB System Memory 0 MB Video Memory Winsock Initialized Found interface: {C4E1846C-F275-4B15-B5B6-2BFF39DD2A0F} Dell TrueMobile 1180 Wireless USB Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport - 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0 Sys_InitNetworking: adding loopback interface doom using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing enabled Flush-To-Zero mode enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode ------ Initializing File System ------ Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0x29cdb978 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\game01.pk4 with checksum 0xe9d5adcf Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\game02.pk4 with checksum 0x80401dd2 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\game03.pk4 with checksum 0x351c23e8 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x28d208f1 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0x40244be0 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0xc51ecdcd Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0xcd79d028 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0x765e4f8b Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak005.pk4 with checksum 0x8ffc3621 Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak006.pk4 with checksum 0x95b65ab Loaded pk4 F:\Doom 3\base\pak007.pk4 with checksum 0x666bdb3c Current search path: F:\Doom 3/base F:\Doom 3\base\pak007.pk4 (38 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak006.pk4 (48 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak005.pk4 (63 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files) F:\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files) F:\Doom 3\base\game03.pk4 (2 files) F:\Doom 3\base\game02.pk4 (2 files) F:\Doom 3\base\game01.pk4 (2 files) F:\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files) game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0 Addon pk4s: file system initialized. -------------------------------------- ----- Initializing Decls ----- ------------------------------ ------- Initializing renderSystem -------- using ARB renderSystem renderSystem initialized. -------------------------------------- 5206 strings read from strings/english.lang Couldn't open journal files execing editor.cfg execing default.cfg couldn't exec DoomConfig.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg 5206 strings read from strings/english.lang ----- Initializing Sound System ------ sound system initialized. -------------------------------------- found DLL in pak file: F:\Doom 3\base\game03.pk4/gamex86.dll copy gamex86.dll to F:\Doom 3\base\gamex86.dll game using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing enabled Flush-To-Zero mode enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode --------- Initializing Game ---------- gamename: baseDOOM-1 gamedate: May 10 2005 Initializing event system ...472 event definitions Initializing class hierarchy ...142 classes, 190688 bytes for event callbacks Initializing scripts Compiled 'monster_demon_archvile': 1793.1 ms ---------- Compile stats ---------- Memory usage: Strings: 79, 9648 bytes Statements: 67866, 1357320 bytes Functions: 2108, 250452 bytes Variables: 147244 bytes Mem used: 2475828 bytes Static data: 2277552 bytes Allocated: 3281264 bytes Thread size: 7068 bytes ...6 aas types game initialized. -------------------------------------- -------- Initializing Session -------- WARNING: idChoiceWindow::InitVars: gui 'guis/mainmenu.gui' window 'SNDBPrimary' references undefined cvar 's_driver' Couldn't read ../base/xpkey. session initialized -------------------------------------- --- Common Initialization Complete --- ------------- Warnings --------------- during DOOM 3 initialization... WARNING: idChoiceWindow::InitVars: gui 'guis/mainmenu.gui' window 'SNDBPrimary' references undefined cvar 's_driver' 1 warnings Type 'help' for dedicated server info. Once again, i have updated every driver i can think of, the only other solutions ive heard of involve removing service pack 2. I tried this and it caused too many other problems with windows so I had to put it back, such as windows crashing immediately upon loading, and taking 10 minutes to boot up. I have reinstalled about 6 or 7 times now, still the same problems. ANY help would be fantastic, I really just want to play Doom3 again =(, thanks guys.
Hey dude. Im not really sure about this one, but u look like u need some help. 100% honestly, is the game from a genuine original disc? Or is the game a torrent download or something. I dont mind im just trying to help you. If its a download the chances are the games just a faulty rip...in which cause id go for another one. If its genuine...then im stumped. lol.
Just a random thought, I bought doom3 then made images for backup. If you did the same and are trying to install from the images you might have problems with the install. I installed from the discs and run with a mini image. The other thought is Direct X 10. I don't know why it would make a difference but..... I also thought 10 only ran on Vista. Doom might not be compatible with Vista.
