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Doom 3 help! Why won't it run?!
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posted08/09/2004 04:11 PM (UTC)by
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anitabath118
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Please help! I don't understand why this is happening, and I think I'm gonna cry cause I can't play the game! It says this when I try to run Doom 3:

Error during initialization

1715 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2
256 MB System Memory
64 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Hostname: -------
IP: ----------------
doom using MMX & SSE & SSE2 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Doom 3/base
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak005.pk4 (145 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files)
C:\Program Files\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
file system initialized.
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----- Initializing Decls -----
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------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
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4966 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
4966 strings read from strings/english.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
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----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...attempting to use stereo
...PIXELFORMAT 3 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
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sound: STEREO
X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found
X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found
X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found
X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found
X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found
********************
ERROR: The current video card / driver combination does not support the necessary features
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Error during initialization
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL


If anyone knows what to do, please let me know. Thanks
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BroomSword
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 •08/07/2004 12:32 PM (UTC) •
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Looks like you don't have a supported GPU Chipset!
What brand is your video card? What OS are you running?
You're pretty much at bare minimum specs here, so answer my questions, they may help.
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 •08/07/2004 01:08 PM (UTC) •
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Solution here
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 •08/07/2004 01:26 PM (UTC) •
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I'm not sure what brand the video card is, is NVIDIA a brand? I really don't know much at all. I'm using Windows XP Professional, on Pentium 4.

broomsword Wrote:
Looks like you don't have a supported GPU Chipset!
What brand is your video card? What OS are you running?
You're pretty much at bare minimum specs here, so answer my questions, they may help.

Does this mean I have to buy all that??!!! sadsadsad
born-again-vampire Wrote: Solution here
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BroomSword
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 •08/07/2004 02:06 PM (UTC) •
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You're screwed. Your GFX chipset isn't supported. Buy a new one. Thats the only way you'll be able to play Doom 3. Have a nice day.
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 •08/07/2004 02:11 PM (UTC) •
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broomsword Wrote:
You're screwed. Your GFX chipset isn't supported. Buy a new one. Thats the only way you'll be able to play Doom 3. Have a nice day.
Closed.


Lol. I am very screwed. Blowing more money just so I can play Doom 3. Thanks for the tip.
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 •08/07/2004 02:47 PM (UTC) •
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Actually, I ran into that same problem myself when I first tried to run Doom 3, and I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ 256 MB! It turned out the issue was that when I upgraded my video drivers, some files were left over from the previous driver install and ended up corrupting my new driver install. I had to download a program called Driver Cleaner 3 in order to get the new drivers installed and working properly.

However, like others here have said, your video card may not be up to snuff, as it were. You say you have an nVIDIA card; it needs to be a GeForce 4, FX, or higher card. (GeForce 4 MX doesn't count, as they're closer in architecture to a GeForce 2 card and John Carmack himself said Doom 3 won't run on it.)

If you have a powerful enough card, and you're getting that issue, download the latest drivers from nVIDIA and also get Driver Cleaner 3 (search for it on Google), and work from there.

Hope this helps...
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ShingoEX
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 •08/07/2004 02:58 PM (UTC) •
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Wrong...my GeForce 3 Ti 200 64mb ran Doom 3.
DArqueBishop Wrote:
You say you have an nVIDIA card; it needs to be a GeForce 4, FX, or higher card. (GeForce 4 MX doesn't count, as they're closer in architecture to a GeForce 2 card and John Carmack himself said Doom 3 won't run on it.)

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Blade-Tsung
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 •08/07/2004 03:12 PM (UTC) •
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I think it's amazing 3/4 of your computer has to be devoted to rendering graphics for a game. Absolute lunacy.
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 •08/07/2004 04:03 PM (UTC) •
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Or you could just wait for xbox. If you have it..
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 •08/07/2004 04:13 PM (UTC) •
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blade-tsung Wrote:
I think it's amazing 3/4 of your computer has to be devoted to rendering graphics for a game. Absolute lunacy.


You must be new to computer gaming. wink

It's almost always been a semi-joke within the PC gaming community: "How do you know when it's time to upgrade your PC?" "When id Software releases a new game." I actually had to upgrade a couple of components on my machine to get Doom 3 to effectively run, but I foresaw that happening anyway. The only two reasons it doesn't bother me are that A) Carmack's game engines require a lot of horsepower but they deliver a hell of a lot of bang for their buck, and B) I'm going to end up upgrading for new games at some point anyway...

Just my $.02...
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 •08/07/2004 05:02 PM (UTC) •
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DArqueBishop Wrote:
blade-tsung Wrote:
I think it's amazing 3/4 of your computer has to be devoted to rendering graphics for a game. Absolute lunacy.

You must be new to computer gaming.


hahaha

Yea actually the only game I've ever bought for my PC is/was Jedi Outcast. That game kicked ass and I played the online fighting a LOT, but not any more.

I guess there are different types of people on the computer, some play games the most, some surf the web the most, some do computer graphics the most, some download music the most, etc.. I think I bought/use mine mostly for music and surfin, tho I now have learned some graphic stuff, but I digress..

I think I'll stick with Doom 95 right now tho ;)
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 •08/07/2004 05:52 PM (UTC) •
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DArqueBishop Wrote:
It's almost always been a semi-joke within the PC gaming community: "How do you know when it's time to upgrade your PC?" "When id Software releases a new game."


ROFLOL! It's so true! That's why I love Sierra and Valve cause they're reliable for the most part on most chipsets. I hope Half Life 2 follows the same trend.


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 •08/07/2004 11:36 PM (UTC) •
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DArqueBishop Wrote:
Actually, I ran into that same problem myself when I first tried to run Doom 3, and I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ 256 MB! It turned out the issue was that when I upgraded my video drivers, some files were left over from the previous driver install and ended up corrupting my new driver install. I had to download a program called Driver Cleaner 3 in order to get the new drivers installed and working properly.

However, like others here have said, your video card may not be up to snuff, as it were. You say you have an nVIDIA card; it needs to be a GeForce 4, FX, or higher card. (GeForce 4 MX doesn't count, as they're closer in architecture to a GeForce 2 card and John Carmack himself said Doom 3 won't run on it.)

If you have a powerful enough card, and you're getting that issue, download the latest drivers from nVIDIA and also get Driver Cleaner 3 (search for it on Google), and work from there.

Hope this helps...


I thought that my copy of Doom 3 was stuffed up but it's probably not, phew (wipes forehead).
Yeh I got that GeForce 4 MX one. So I'll just have to buy the GeForce 4, FX, or higher card and get that Driver Cleaner 3 and everything should be fine?confusedsmile
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 •08/08/2004 01:12 AM (UTC) •
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anitabath118 Wrote:
I thought that my copy of Doom 3 was stuffed up but it's probably not, phew (wipes forehead).
Yeh I got that GeForce 4 MX one. So I'll just have to buy the GeForce 4, FX, or higher card and get that Driver Cleaner 3 and everything should be fine?


You'd also need a memory upgrade as well. You've only got 256 MB of RAM; Doom 3 lists 384 MB as the bare minimum requirements. (I totally missed that the first time around; Shinnokxz caught it, though.)

Once you get those, you MIGHT be good to go. Only way to find out is to do the upgrade and see...

Hope this helps...
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 •08/08/2004 01:48 AM (UTC) •
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DArqueBishop Wrote:

anitabath118 Wrote:
I thought that my copy of Doom 3 was stuffed up but it's probably not, phew (wipes forehead).
Yeh I got that GeForce 4 MX one. So I'll just have to buy the GeForce 4, FX, or higher card and get that Driver Cleaner 3 and everything should be fine?

You'd also need a memory upgrade as well. You've only got 256 MB of RAM; Doom 3 lists 384 MB as the bare minimum requirements. (I totally missed that the first time around; Shinnokxz caught it, though.)

Once you get those, you MIGHT be good to go. Only way to find out is to do the upgrade and see...

Hope this helps...


Okay, thanks dude. I'll be right on it. I can't wait! smile
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slickmkfan
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 •08/08/2004 01:25 PM (UTC) •
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If anyone has any trouble with Doom 3 in terms of graphics, you MUST check this out here.
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ShingoEX
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 •08/08/2004 01:50 PM (UTC) •
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That tip may or may not help in terms of game performance, but it'll definitely eat up more HD space.

I saw an improvement of about 3 fps when using the methods described on that board, which really wasn't worth it for me.
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 •08/09/2004 04:11 PM (UTC) •
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DArqueBishop Wrote:
Actually, I ran into that same problem myself when I first tried to run Doom 3, and I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ 256 MB! It turned out the issue was that when I upgraded my video drivers, some files were left over from the previous driver install and ended up corrupting my new driver install. I had to download a program called Driver Cleaner 3 in order to get the new drivers installed and working properly.

However, like others here have said, your video card may not be up to snuff, as it were. You say you have an nVIDIA card; it needs to be a GeForce 4, FX, or higher card. (GeForce 4 MX doesn't count, as they're closer in architecture to a GeForce 2 card and John Carmack himself said Doom 3 won't run on it.)

If you have a powerful enough card, and you're getting that issue, download the latest drivers from nVIDIA and also get Driver Cleaner 3 (search for it on Google), and work from there.

Hope this helps...



Oh contrare(if that's how you spell it), I have an MX440 and the game runs WITH honors...
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