Re: Doom 3; Game Fade Black After A Couple of Minutes???

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From: Gaz
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:22

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"John" <beretta92fs_inox@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi I just had Doom 3. The game works for a couple of minutes and then
> it suddenly fade black I don't see the gun anymore nothing except some
> lights but it's not playable anymore because I can barely see
> something.
>
> My system spec;
>
> MSI GeForce 4 Ti4400 - TD 128MB AGP 4X with Latest 61.77 Driver
> Latest DirectX 9.0b
> 1 x 512MB DDR PC 2700 (333MHz)
> Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz C Hyperthreatning
> Windows XP Pro
>
>
> I don't think the rest is important.

Same problem here, the flashlight is no help.  SP2 has made Doom 3 run 
marginally smoother but has not fixed the fade to black problem after a 
couple of minutes.  See my post in the thread "Doom 3 has ADVANCED 
lighting???" below.  Are you running the warez version?

Cheers.

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From: "Gaz" <nospam@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Doom 3; Game Fade Black After A Couple of Minutes???
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:22:31 +0000 (UTC)
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