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Article #87428Re: ill ask again...doom 3 encountered an error and must close
From: bob brozewicz
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:38
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:38
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McGrandpa wrote: > bob brozewicz wrote: > >>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. > > > That has me beat then. How about mobo/chipset drivers? got the latest > for yours? > > whats mobo/chipset. motherboard? if so. i did not try that yet. its all intel based. i have a gateway, btw. i wouldnt even know where to being with that task for the mother board chipsetdrivers. im also looking for sp 2 to also try with great fear and concern.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny04.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> <faOTc.13918$ZY3.8812@trndny08> <HXPTc.13988$MD.9907@fe1.texas.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <HXPTc.13988$MD.9907@fe1.texas.rr.com> Lines: 57 Message-ID: <iBRTc.2361$_w.379@trndny04> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:38:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.201.223.68 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny04 1092609486 151.201.223.68 (Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:38:06 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:38:06 EDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit