'Official' DOOM 3 Thread

[puppeteer666]

i insinuate noting, all those who point the finger MUST be the culprate

[XxVideoGamerxX]

Whenever I start up Doom3 the loading screen pops up and then it closes and this blue window pops up and says

ERROR: LoadLibrary 'D:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\gamex86.dll' wants to load 'D:\PROGRA~1\DOOM3~1\base\gamex86.dll'
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ERROR: couldn't load game dynamic library

Does anybody have any clue what that means and how to fix it? Thanks!

[Luciel]

sounds like a corrupt instalation, try reinstalling

[Quall999]

see if "gamex86.dll" is in the base folder. Even if it is, extract it from the pk4 file it is in and over write. This seems to be a more common problem.....

although...
D:\PROGRA~1\DOOM3~1\base\gamex86.dll

doom3~1 doesn't have a space, i don't know if windows removed it when they shortened path, but...

If all fails, you can go to d3files.com. I made a launcher for the game under utilities. Just click the profiles button and load one. It will create a new save directory and make a new "gamex86.dll" file as well.

[[GS]Havok]

When ever i start doom 3, lets say in recruit mode, it exits the entire game to the desktop. i have a brand new ATI All-in-Wonder retail right out of the box. do i still need the Catalyst drivers? Thanx

[Luciel]

Yes u do.

[vtrance]

All right so the game installed fine, and i was starting to play but sometimes when it loads stuff during gameplay and when the screen just temp. freezes (but for a long time), all the lighting goes away. It's Pitch black. Anyone else have any problems like this? Thanks

[KAMiKAZE]

I would update my videodrivers and try to unpack the compressed data of the game for faster loading (here the instruction ORIGINALLY POSTED BY: "karlmueller")
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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!!!
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and maybe you want to increase the performance even more there is a way to increase the cached megs that the game will use from ur RAM visit general gaming forum-->in the official doom3 thread on page 3 u'll find the above post from karlmueller and the other tuning alternative posted by Quall999.

[Quall999]

ati released a 4.8 drive a day before yuo posted it. Although it doesn't state that it fixes probs along with the other games, it does fix problems with doom.

[SCVirus]

try fixing the amounts of dots in the number. 4.8 causes problems with doom get the omega or dna drivers.

[tonygbaker]

i blew a fair amount getting me pc to run doom at near full blast.imagine my joy when the game after ten minutes playing kicked me out of the game and returned me to xp deskytop with washed out colours to boot.bugger i thought must have pressed the wrong button so went back in.guess what it did it again and again.this is a legit copy so wot the flip is going on.i have a radeon9500 pro clocked as a 9800 pro and its stable.athalon 2800 xp with a gig of ram at 333hz.i can run far cry at full res so it must be summet else.does anyone have any suggestions.

[Luciel]

once again if u BOTHERED to read ull realise radeons have that prob with doom, download the latest drivers and ull be fine.

[Tjboatboy]

Hi,
I am trying to play Doom 3 on my laptop.
E machine 2400 athlon xp 512 pc2100
64 mb shared for memory Ati Radeon.
They have said on this forum that if you use winrar to decompress the files that the game can run smoother.
Is this possible??
At this point the mouse is really slow and the game is really framey.
any help would be appreciated.
Plus how do I convert the cd's to one DVD and where do I get a cracked .MSI file.
Thanks,
Tj

[Quall999]

Yes, but don't expect and super performaces. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that it wouldn't run faster, just less studdering when you open doors and other random pauses during gameplay.

You don't need a patch or anything. I put mine onto a dvd. It was stated in a thread. ALl you have to do is open the msi file, look for "DOOM3_2" and "DOOM3_3", then change them to say "DOOM3_1". Then just name your volume label DOOM3_1 when you burn.