Doom III Errors
 

I was wondering if anyone else has had troubles or luck fixing problems running doom 3.

Currently I'm running DirectX 8.1 with up to date OpenGL drivers for an ATI Rage Mobility card..

Doom 3 still fails to load crashing out at about halfway thru initiation with what seems to be an open GL problem..

I've applied the multiple patches to update the loader and .cfg files yet to no avail.

Anyways.. I'll run a few tests and post the results to see if anyone can make heads or tails of it.. or if anyone is having similiar problems.

Wintune results for my pc.

System Summary

Intel Pentium III
(1) 631 MHz
Windows 98 4.10.1998
ATI XPERT 98 (English)
800x600@32bits/pixel
1876 MIPS (Integer operations)
754 MFLOPS (Floating point operations)
1.1 (Integer application simulation)
1.1 (Floating point application simulation)
1.1 (MMX application simulation)
44 Video MPixels/s
12 OpenGL MPixels/s
42 Direct3D MPixels/s
289 Direct3D Null driver score
54 Direct3D Primary driver score
1269 RAM MB/s

System Details

BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 04/17/00
Bus: PCI,PCMCIA,ISA
APM:
Possible 'hog' apps running: (none)
Other apps running: Number of test repetitions; WinTune; WinTune; DDHelpWndClass; SENS; TinyPersonalFirewallMainWindow; ATI Tray Icon Application; Notification Wnd for RNAdmin; ATI2Cwxx; RPCSSWindow; ATI video bios poller; MS_WebcheckMonitor

CPU Details

CPU load: 57
low MIPS: 1300
CPUID: 0x0681 0x383F9FF
MMX Present: True
3DNow Present: False
Streaming SIMD Extensions Present: True
Processor Serial Number Present & Enabled: False
dhrystone time (s): 1.1
whetstone time (s): 0.013
Integer time (s): 706
Floating point time (s): 655
MMX time (s): 843

Video Details

AccOpt: Normal
Total video time (s): 7.9
Window open time (s): 0.054
Text scroll time (s): 1.5
Line drawing time (s): 1.5
Filled objects time (s): 0.64
Pattern blit time (s): 0.8
Text draw time (s): 1.1
DIB blit time (s): 2.3
Window close time (s): 0.022

OpenGL Details

Time (s): 6.9

Direct3D Details

DirectX Version 600
Time (s): 6.8
Null device test time (s): 5.2
Primary device test time (s): 9.2
Secondary device test time (s): 0

Memory Details

Memory Read Speed (MB/s): 1311
Memory Write Speed (MB/s): 1432
Memory Copy Speed (MB/s): 1063
Installed RAM (MB): 96

Doom 3 initialization results.

DOOM 0.02 win-x86 Jul 23 2002
...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
C:\doom3alpha\Doom_III/base

----------------------
----- IdRenderer::Init -----
Initializing Materials
----- Initializing Materials -----
...loading 'materials/._lights.mtr'
...loading 'materials/aaduffyTest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/andy.mtr'
...loading 'materials/atest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/base_door.mtr'
...loading 'materials/base_floor.mtr'
...loading 'materials/base_light.mtr'
...loading 'materials/base_trim.mtr'
...loading 'materials/base_wall.mtr'
...loading 'materials/characters.mtr'
...loading 'materials/decals.mtr'
...loading 'materials/door.mtr'
...loading 'materials/duffyTest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/fogs.mtr'
...loading 'materials/gfx.mtr'
...loading 'materials/helltemp.mtr'
...loading 'materials/invisible.mtr'
...loading 'materials/kentest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/ktest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/lab.mtr'
...loading 'materials/lab_floor.mtr'
...loading 'materials/lights.mtr'
...loading 'materials/mal.mtr'
...loading 'materials/mapobjects.mtr'
...loading 'materials/Maxtextures.mtr'
...loading 'materials/monsters.mtr'
...loading 'materials/morgue.mtr'
...loading 'materials/mre.mtr'
...loading 'materials/object.mtr'
...loading 'materials/patd.mtr'
...loading 'materials/paultest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/pdtest.mtr'
...loading 'materials/recyc_door.mtr'
...loading 'materials/recyc_floor.mtr'
...loading 'materials/recyc_light.mtr'
...loading 'materials/recyc_trim.mtr'
...loading 'materials/recyc_wall.mtr'
...loading 'materials/rock.mtr'
...loading 'materials/senetemp.mtr'
...loading 'materials/sfx.mtr'
...loading 'materials/shaderDemo.mtr'
...loading 'materials/skies.mtr'
...loading 'materials/sound.mtr'
...loading 'materials/specialcase.mtr'
...loading 'materials/stone.mtr'
...loading 'materials/testInteractions.mtr'
...loading 'materials/tim.mtr'
...loading 'materials/tools.mtr'
...loading 'materials/video.mtr'
...loading 'materials/washroom.mtr'
...loading 'materials/weapons.mtr'
...loading 'materials/zgraeme.mtr'
----------------------------------
Spawning back end thread...
...SMP not available
----- finished R_Init -----
Couldn't open journal files
Winsock Initialized
Hostname: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
IP: xx.xx.xx.xx
Opening IP socket: localhost:27973
Opening IP socket: localhost:27974
execing editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
bind <key> [command] : attach a command to a key
execing DoomConfig.cfg
execing autoexec.cfg
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (800x600)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...attempting to use stereo
...PIXELFORMAT 4 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
X..WGL_EXT_swap_control not found
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_compression not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp not found
X..GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp not found
X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found
X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found
X..GL_NV_vertex_array_range not found
X..GL_NV_fence not found
X..GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 not found
Couldn't find proc address for: glActiveStencilFaceNV
Couldn't find proc address for: glStencilOpSeparateATI
Couldn't find proc address for: glStencilFuncSeparateATI
X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_EXT_vertex_shader not found
X..GL_ATI_vertex_array_object not found
X..GL_GL2_geometry_shader not found
---------- R_NV20_Init ----------
Not available.
---------- R_NV30_Init ----------
Not available.
----- R200_Init -----
Not available.
----- GL2_Init -----
Not available.
WARNING: vertex array range in virtual memory (SLOW)
idVertexCache: allocated 134217728 megs of virtual memory
regenerating _default.
regenerating _white.
regenerating _black.
regenerating _flat.
regenerating _ambient.
regenerating _ramp.
regenerating _alphaRamp.
regenerating _alphaNotch.
regenerating _threshold.
regenerating _fog.
regenerating _fogEnter.
regenerating _normalCubeMap.
regenerating _noFalloff.
regenerating _quadratic.
regenerating _scratch.
regenerating _scratchCubeMap.
idPacketServer::Kill: server thread not active
idRenderer::Shutdown()
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
==== Game Shutdown ====
==== Map Shutdown ====
Clearing targets
-----------------------------------
Shutdown event system
...not started
-----------------------------------
idVertexCache::AllocFrameTemp with NULL base

It tends NOT to run on a lot of computers for various reasons. I can't say I'm an expert at solving problems like this, but be aware of the fact that the game might be highly unplayable on your system due to the fact that your CPU is running at 631 mhz. However, most ATI cards should work perfectly fine, so your problem is a bit confusing. I'll get back to you if I can think of anything helpful.

Thanks for your insight, it seems the monster system requirements maybe a key issue.

On the ***** Network it is listed as a Windows XP application.

Has anyone had success running it on Windows 98 or other platforms?

I noticed whenever a monster approaches me in the game I take a huge framerate hit, (GeForce4 MX 440) Although Im picking up my shiny new Radeon 9700 Pro tomorow morning that should help things just a bit ;)