'Official' DOOM 3 Thread

[Capt´n Crunch]

Kewl! Thx a lot, Kamikaze!

Grx. Cpt.

[krondike]

seams that Doom 3 are gonna be 3 discs!
and UK version have been outleaked!

[Nachi]

Anyways..lol, considering it's out stuff..

anyone know how to get the cheats to actually work in the game?

They say hit '~' for the console.. but.. newp, no console..lol

[Luciel]

its provably like Half Life, u have to add a parameter in the shortcut

[crazygamelover]

you would think it wound be like all of the other Dooms in regard to cheat codes. Have you tried pausing the game and typing in "iddqd" for god mode or "idbeholdl" to light up a dark corridor/tomb? Try some of the old codes from older Doom releases and see if any of them work? Personally I havent bought it yet. Just wondering if you tried the old codes yet.

[Luciel]

lol i wouldnt be surprised if they worked :P

[crazygamelover]

Here is a list of old Doom cheat codes you can try. Just type them in during normal game play and see if they work.

iddqd=god mode.
idfa=all weapons & armor & ammo.
idkfa=all weapons & armor & ammo & keys.
idclev=level warp.
idmus=change music.
idclip=walk past walls.
idmypos=where you are in code.
iddt=all map.
iddt x2=shows monsters & items on the map.
idchopper= Chainsaw
idbeholdl= temp light
idbeholds= go bezerk
idbeholdi= temp inviso
idbeholdv= temp invincibilty
idbeholda= full map

[karlmueller]

As all of you who allready have this game recognized the game is very slow even on new Computers.

I found out the reason for this and the solution to fix this problem.

As you already know after installation the game consits only of the doom3.exe and some .PK4 files. Those PK4 files includes the entire game (sounds, videos, textures etc.) in high compressed form.

Normally those files were decompresse during the game.

But this exactly is the problem. Even new CPUs are not able to decompress those files while running the game with good peformance and therfore the game runs very **** also on new computers. I don't know if the develpers of ID-Soft was just too stupid to think about this or if they have an agreement with some hardware manufacturing firms.

How to get around this problem:

It is very simple. Go to your Doom 3 installation directoy and get inside the folder "Base". There are some .PK4 files you have to open each of them with WinRAR 3.3 and extract their entire contents to the Base dir in you Doom 3 installation folder (replace all files if they are any duplicates). Now you have to delete all .PK4 files in the Base folder to prevent the game to use those compressed files agian.

Now the game starts and runs mutch faster!!!

Have fun playing Doom 3!!!

[Luciel]

well i dont own the game yet, but i will certainly do that when i have it...

NICE ONE karlmueller

[Quall999]

Originally Posted by crazygamelover

Here is a list of old Doom cheat codes you can try. Just type them in during normal game play and see if they work.

iddqd=god mode.
idfa=all weapons & armor & ammo.
idkfa=all weapons & armor & ammo & keys.
idclev=level warp.
idmus=change music.
idclip=walk past walls.
idmypos=where you are in code.
iddt=all map.
iddt x2=shows monsters & items on the map.
idchopper= Chainsaw
idbeholdl= temp light
idbeholds= go bezerk
idbeholdi= temp inviso
idbeholdv= temp invincibilty
idbeholda= full map

lol, you know, after the game crashed the first time, I loaded it up and checked to see if some of them worked. Not to cheat, just to see if they were still there. Anyways, when I typed it, it gave some message like "nice to see you still remember". Then stated the commands were invalid. Anyway, they just used the commands from the old q3 engine, like god, give all, etc..

[Quall999]

sry to double post, but karlmueller. There is an alternative. I had very, VERY crappy framerates at first on my ati 9700 aiw (high@1024x768). But now, it runs very, VERY nicely. Hopefully you have alot of ram. I only have 512, and the game runs good. Higher would only mean better.

Anyways, just go into the base folder, and open the file "doomconfig.cfg" Find this line here:
seta image_cacheMegs "##" (mine was 20, some others were 32)
then set it to something that you can spare in memory, mine is now:
seta image_cacheMegs "128"
That should give dramatic speedups. Someone with a gig of ram could probably set it to 512. Anyways, people have reported as much as a 35f increase (one had 25, edited and got nearly 60).

[Luciel]

im saving this 2 tweaks in my notepad lol

When i get the game ill try:

Putting it at 1280x1024x32
with everything on high
then ill uncompress the pk4 things and then edit that file the other guy said, if it works...
Ill get a smooth HELL GOOD looking Doom 3

btw, i have 1gig of ram (dual channel so even better), what if i put 768 to spare? would that be pushing it?

[Quall999]

Well, I like to map for games, so the first tweak kind of bugged me. the pk4 is just an imported zip file. Extracting all those files gives me a headache.

oh yah, after I edited the line to seta image_cacheMegs "128", the frames went strait up to 60fps (the game is capped at this, so it won't go higher) with no demon entites on screen, down to 20-30 with enemy demons.

In my opinion, this game is a cross between resident evil, and halo. Movement, speed, and rate of fire is the same as halo (along with spaceship surrounds), but there are demons, zombies, and other baddies that move and fire like that of RE. And the atmosphere is just as creapy (a zombie might just pop out and scare the loafs outta ya). One of my 2 favorite games at that lol.

768, hmm, not sure. 512 would be great already, i mean, the default is probably 32 lol. 768 with nothing running in the background should be ok. Just uh, don't do the ultra settings. It needs like 500mb video ram, and they don't make any past 256 (yours) lol.

[crazygamelover]

Originally Posted by Quall999

lol, you know, after the game crashed the first time, I loaded it up and checked to see if some of them worked. Not to cheat, just to see if they were still there. Anyways, when I typed it, it gave some message like "nice to see you still remember". Then stated the commands were invalid. Anyway, they just used the commands from the old q3 engine, like god, give all, etc..

LOL! Can you believe I had most those memorized from back in the day!
The rest were in my notepad archieves. Atleast we now know the old commands dont work anymore.

[Kailian]

I bought Doom 3 and I love it! The funny thing is. I can run it on my laptop and they are below minimum system specs. They are in my sig.