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Old 11-30-2004, 06:11 AM   #1
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Question doom3


hi im trying to get doom3 working on my laptop as it is the only thing without an ati card

it is 1.4GHz pentium 3m and i arnt sure what graphics it is althou i know it has 512mb of ram init and i am running suse 9.1 it is a gatway laptop from when my dad lived in the states

the game installed ok and i cpied the filles with no problems of the dvd but when i go into my k menu and click on applications there are 4 doom3's and nonwork it iether fails to start or goes to a black screen

does anybody have any ideas?

thanks
 
Old 11-30-2004, 11:55 AM   #2
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Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Games forum and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.
 
Old 11-30-2004, 12:42 PM   #3
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Try running it from the console. I had a similar problem, I had set up xorg.conf to use 16 bit colour by default, and I believe doom3 requires 24bit, changing that fixed the problem.
 
Old 11-30-2004, 03:12 PM   #4
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i have tried using the command but havnt changed the xorg.conf could work i will go it a go

thanks for the help
 
  


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