DOOM3 - Windows 7

[Neilsouth]

Anyone got DOOM 3 to work with windows 7? , when i load it up i get annoying out of sync waves going down the screen. Also everytime i set widescreen and restart the game it goes back to 640x. I tried autoexec.cfg and setting that to widescreen but it still starts up as a really low res!

Not the only one
Doom3world • View topic - Windows 7 Beta

 

[Gilbertpwns]

It needs some sort of patch I would suppose. It needed one for vista so the same one may work. It also may be that you have the 64 bit version of windows, not sure if thats a problem.

 

[swarfega]

yeah Im getting these lines too, hurts my eyes :/

 

[64fanatic]

edit:

it would seem using the windows update drivers, doom 3 works perfectly fine, but trying to use any recent drivers will break most ID (Doom/Quake, etc) or OpenGL based games.

 

[Neilsouth]

Fixed with 181.22 beta nvidia drivers woohoo!

EDIT : Maybe not , its flickering again

 

[Neilsouth]

Did anybody fix doom 3? or find out why it was flickering like crazy in windows 7 any driver apart from the pos winu one

 

[zZanthraXx]

I played at a lan not too long ago with the win7 7000 beta... worked great. did you patch the game? 1.3v is latest i think

 

[ickymay]

using the nvidia stock drivers on my 9800GTX+ I had those horrible flickering lines with DOOM3 and wolfenstein on steam , unninstalled the card completely and allowed windows update to install drivers and that fixed it and all my other games

 

[swarfega]

Yep, dont use the vista drivers as the WU ones are specific for Win7.

 

[mortarmerkai]

i got it to work

i dont know if any of this is relevant but here it is:

dimension 9600
2.4 ghz p4
768 ram
ati sapphire radeon 4600 256 mb vram

i divided my 80gb drive in to 2 40 gb parts. installed xp and all drivers ect.
mounted windows 7 beta 7000 in daemon tools in xp and installed into seperate part

got all drivers workin

booted xp and installed doom 3 and played awhile... worked fine

booted windows 7

went into xp drive where doom 3 installed.

ran from that directory without even installing it in windows 7

all done from original PURCHASED oem game also

works fine no problems

make sure disk is in the drive

BUY THE GAME

 

[autonami]

i have a problem running doom3 in windows 7.. it runs fine except it kinna does the matrix glitch thing. where it jumps and says the same thing twice. weird.

my keyboard will become unresponsive after a few minutes of bein in the game. the game runs fine up to this point.
then.... i will be stuck moving foward, backward, or in a strafe, whichever i was doing when it went unresponsive. the only thing the keyboard will do is espape to the menu. i cant reload, jump, crouch or anything.... im on windows 7 7057 32bit. radeon x1650. basic compaq keyboard.

 

[zZanthraXx]

help

I still lan with d3, works great for me. Could you give me some system specs? Version of d3 are you running? Driver Version?

 

[thyris]

If you can stand running it in windowed mode modify your doom3 config located in the /base/ directory and switch off the full screen option.

This removed the flicker for me

oh and @previous poster with all the BUY THE GAME nonsense.

I did, and it was this bought version updated one update at a time and it still flickered.

 

[ambientmf]

I used this solution a week or so ago with Doom 3 and other older OpenGL-based games.
It involves using a RivaTuner tweak.
You can download RivaTuner here.

Windows 7 with opengl (CS 1.6)
This fixed the flickering lines when running OpenGL games fullscreen.

 

[HunterZ]

You might also try the disable desktop composition/compositing/whatever compatibility mode - I heard that Aero can hose OpenGL apps.

 

[lisa01707]

Hi

I got it to work but its slow when playing the game wat would cause this?

I dont get any lines or anything and seems to run well on the title screen and story but playing the game just a bit slow.

I have at lead 2000gb mem and processor speed is 3000mhz so cant b that.

 

[swarfega]

You could try checking the nvidia control panel and setting things to performance rather than quality. Read each entries description and everytime it mentions performance, use that setting.

 

[Orbital Shark]

+1 swafega

Welcome to the forums lisa01707,

There is also the in-game 'System' settings that allow you to 'Autodetect' visual capabilities. I've noticed that when the game first runs it doesn't quite detect correctly so can lead to some performance lag.

 

[lisa01707]

Thanks

I will try this, I also notice when I play DVD's there is a performance lag as well so couldn it be more than just the game?

 

[lisa01707]

I tried the performance thing and putting gane on low quality and still the lag is there, what shld i do now?