Doom 3 for Windows 98 & ME - Here's how to run it.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi guys,

E_J's idea definitely works. It was a very lame idea from iD Software to "protect" (?!) DOOM 3 from being run under Windows 98/ME this way!

Actually, I noticed that the game runs better under Windows 98 than Windows XP. But, perhaps, this is only an optical illusion, attributed to my deep affection to Windows 98... Still, reloading a quicksave is _incomparably_ faster in Windows 98 than Windows XP!

As E_J mentioned, GlobalMemoryStatusEx and GlobalMemoryStatus are quite different. But not only their return value is, but also the data structure that they fill in with information! For this reason, I made a patch that "forwards" GlobalMemoryStatusEx to GlobalMemoryStatus and grabs memory status information from the record fields as laid out in GlobalMemoryStatus's data structure. [...] EDIT: The patch is meant to be applied to Reloaded's no-CD executable!

Not that this made any difference on my machine... Also, note that there are gonna be severe problems on machines with memory more than 4 Gigabytes as that is the reason why GlobalMemoryStatusEx was created...

I wrote up a little article on the tools I used, see http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=63465 . Happy gaming and hacking,

Joe

[fazr001]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

...I made a patch that "forwards" GlobalMemoryStatusEx to GlobalMemoryStatus and grabs memory status information from the record fields as laid out in GlobalMemoryStatus's data structure ...

Where can I find this patch, please?

Thanx, Fazrik

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi Fazrik,

Grab it from GameCopyWorld, it has already been uploaded.

It is important to mention that this Windows 98/ME compatibility patch works ONLY with Reloaded's no-CD executable...!

Joe

[Sprint45]

Downloaded Joe's 98SE patch i received an Doom3.MSI file. but to load it it requires a setup.exe file...can someone please help me with installing this patch????

[Sprint45]

Disregard the previous post I GOT IT!!!! YEAH!!!!!!

[Klimax]

I have recently send a mail to Activision about Official compatibility patch with Win 98.Yet no one has replied.
Perhaps Microsoft made with ID software an agreement about supporting selling of Windows XP.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi Klimax,

It is very typical: when you send a _good_ question to companies, they seem to "forget" to answer... If they realize that answering such question will take some time because they have to _think_ about it then a short reply "hi, sorry, can't answer your question right now but, rest assured, it will follow within a few days" would be nice - but, usually, not even that arrives...

The same occurs with companies dealing with hardware, DVD players, mobile phones and mass transport.

Joe