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 (the game required only 9.0b), 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.
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----- Initializing Decls -----
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------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
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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.
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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 ----------
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've reinstalled the game about 6 or 7 times now.
ANY help would be fantastic, I really just want to play Doom3 again =(, thanks guys.
