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Doom III Leaked Demo!

http://www.sharereactor.com/release.php?id=2946

Yes, this is the real thing. This is the leaked demo for Doom III.

This E3 Doom III demo contains three playable levels and is available through different file sharing programs. Some are legitimate and some are not, therefore download at your own risk.

Instructions for playing Doom 3 demo:

1. Visit http://www.rarlab.com and download WinRAR version 3.0. After you download WinRAR, install it. Open the rar file for Doom 3 which you downloaded (doom_iii.rar) using WinRAR. Once the file is open in WinRAR, click the "Extract To" button, choose a directory to extract the game to, and hit "ok." After the files are done extracting, open the folder which you extracted it too, and go on to step 2.

2. In your Doom_III\base directory, open the runact.cfg file.

3. Comment out the last line. In other words, add the "#" sign in front of the string "devmap $e3_intro" so it looks like the following:

#devmap $e3_intro

4. Launch the game using the main exe file.

5. Press the tilde key (~) to bring down the console (just like Q3)

6. Type the following: exec runact.cfg

7. Hit enter, and wait. Seriously, it takes about 5 mins to load all the everything.

8. Once it is done, you can launch the intro movie, or play yourself.

9. From the console, use the following commands: map e3/intro (Loads intro movie) map e3/e3_1 (Loads first map) map e3/e3_2 (Loads second map) map e3/e3_3 (Loads third map) map fred/e3bathroom5 (won't work for some people)

Changing controls: From the console, type: bindlist

This will list all the currently bound keys and their functions. Use the page up and page down keys to scroll through the list. The controls for standard movement are not bound to the regular WASD config, so type the following to put it back to normal: bind w _forward bind s _back bind a _moveleft bind d _moveright

Checking FPS: type com_drawfps 1


Tuesday, June 25 · 2002 : Carmack on Doom and the Matrox Parhelia

Programmer John Carmack just updated his .plan file with some information regarding the Matrox Parhelia and Doom 3. Here are some excerpts:

The executive summary is that the Parhelia will run Doom, but it is not performance competitive with Nvidia or ATI. . . . The performance was really disappointing for the first 256 bit DDR card. I tried to set up a "poster child" case that would stress the memory subsystem above and beyond any driver or triangle level inefficiencies, but I was unable to get it to ever approach the performance of a GF4. . . . None of the special features will be really useful for Doom. . .

You can read the entire update here

Wednesday, June 19 · 2002 : DOOM III Video Interview

Gamespot has released a few of their video interviews from E3. One the videos that are available for downloading is an interview with id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and level designer Christian "Xian" Antkow discussing DOOM III. it's a hefty 66 megs and you will need to install a plug-in to view them. Head over to the GameSpot Download Page to check them out.

Wednesday, June 19 · 2002 : DOOM III Video Interview

Gamespot has released a few of their video interviews from E3. One the videos that are available for downloading is an interview with id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and level designer Christian "Xian" Antkow discussing DOOM III. it's a hefty 66 megs and you will need to install a plug-in to view them. Head over to the GameSpot Download Page to check them out.

Wednesday, June 19 · 2002 : DOOM III Video Interview

Gamespot has released a few of their video interviews from E3. One the videos that are available for downloading is an interview with id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and level designer Christian "Xian" Antkow discussing DOOM III. it's a hefty 66 megs and you will need to install a plug-in to view them. Head over to the GameSpot Download Page to check them out.