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

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From: Slava Moudry
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:48

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Do you use LCD?
They are known to be very bad in dark areas where it's important to tell the
difference between dark gray and darker grey.
I am on CRT and have no problem. The game was designed to be dark.

"Gaz" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <beretta92fs_inox@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:29fe5693.0408091654.1e8dad3b@posting.google.com...
> > 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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