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Article #87426Re: ill ask again...doom 3 encountered an error and must close
From: bob brozewicz
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:44
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:44
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McGrandpa wrote: > bob brozewicz wrote: > >>McGrandpa wrote: >> >>>Is it possible something in either your vid driver or dx9c *could* >>>have gotten corrupted? I haven't had the problems with it you have. >>>I DID have some video issues at the time I installed Doom 3 but they >>>did not crash my system. For me, the two issues I had were fixed >>>with ensuring a clean removal of old vid driver, then reinstalling >>>that in safe mode, and finally reinstalling (repair) Direct X 9. >>> >>>Oh, I just noticed you have played the alpha. Is it still installed >>>and runnable on your system? Some kind of conflict between the two? >>>Just some thoughts,Doom 3 should be running pretty good on your rig. >> >>mcgrandpa, >> >>thanks for responding... >> >>i did uninstall the alpha version before i tried the real deal. i >>thought it may cause a conflict also. >> >>i re downloaded directx and the catalyst 4.9 (beta) drive and >>reinstalled them with nav auto protect turned off. reinstalled the >>game again and..... >> >>this didnt help either. i still get the error. i opened an incident >>with activision to see if they can help. >> >>i not giving up yet. > > > Good. You might try using a RegCleaner to eradicate all traces of doom > (alpha) in the registry before reinstalling Doom3 again. I just got a > hunch about this.... done that too. i use registry first aid. works great. that did help either.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.osn.de!news.iphh.net!iphh.net!news.belwue.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny08.POSTED!0d7ebe86!not-for-mail From: bob brozewicz <brozewicz.rf@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: ill ask again...doom 3 encountered an error and must close References: <tAqTc.1100$_w.580@trndny04> <UTqTc.10171$nu2.1319@fe2.texas.rr.com> <MYJTc.2881$si.72@trndny06> <zPNTc.13947$MD.3461@fe1.texas.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <zPNTc.13947$MD.3461@fe1.texas.rr.com> Lines: 38 Message-ID: <faOTc.13918$ZY3.8812@trndny08> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:44:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.162.171.170 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny08 1092595467 68.162.171.170 (Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:44:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:44:27 EDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit