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Marnetmar
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So, I've recently gotten my cousin into the doom series and after finishing doom 1 and 2, he's looking to play doom 3. Of course, he wants to play a demo before buying it to see if it's worth the money, and I've lent the disc for the full version to my friend and he seems to have screwed me over by not giving it back (I assume he broke it) thing is, my cousin, like most of us, uses windows 7 and AFAIK it's not possible to make the demo work on windows 7. Is there a way?
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Simple answer.

NO.

Same with Windows Vista. You'd have to use Windows XP, or just keep trying and get Lucky.
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The Doom 3 shareware doesn't work on Windows 7? o_o

Also, someone who breaks a Doom copy is not a friend. Fortunately you can keep playing Doom 3 without the CD if you update it to a later version.
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printz said:
The Doom 3 shareware doesn't work on Windows 7? o_o


Nope. If you try to run it, the process will run for about ten seconds and then it terminates itself.
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Try running it in compatibility mode?

I must admit that it sounds like an issue specific to the demo. A couple of friends of mine run the retail version of Doom 3 on their Win7 boxes just fine.
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Indeed. Any modern game should work perfectly on Windows 7...
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DoomUK said:
Try running it in compatibility mode?

I must admit that it sounds like an issue specific to the demo. A couple of friends of mine run the retail version of Doom 3 on their Win7 boxes just fine.


Yah, the *Retail* version. The Demo is incampatible for Vista or 7. Don't ask why.
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Marnetmar
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DoomUK said:
Try running it in compatibility mode?

I must admit that it sounds like an issue specific to the demo. A couple of friends of mine run the retail version of Doom 3 on their Win7 boxes just fine.


Yeah it's specific to the demo. Isn't the demo based off of an old version of the code or something?
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The 1.3.1 patch was released to fix issues with Vista (which carry over to Windows 7 as well). The demo version was never updated and you probably don't have a chance to run it (an idea comes to me if you can run the demo pk4 files on 1.3.1 ... no idea if it will work though).
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It's $20US on Steam. Seems a bit much for a 7 year old game, but it isn't too bad a price. That seems unfortunately to be the only way to go about it, what with the demo being broken.
(Unless ebay offers a better price without being bid up to ridiculous heights like most things.)
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Here's how I got the Doom 3 Demo to run on Windows 7. First, install the demo, then install the 1.3.1 patch to the demo folder. Open up "game03.pk4" in your favourite zip editor and extract "gamex86.dll" to the demos main folder. Move the "demo00.pk4" from demo to base folder. If you run the demo now it will ask for a CD key so apply a fix. Open up "demo00.pk4" in your zip editor. All files and folders that begins with "demo_" need to have that part removed. If I haven't forgotten anything in those instructions the demo should function now. :)
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All that for a Demo? I think someone would rather just buy the game instead.

Now why don't we focus on something else, like getting the Wolf 2009 Demo to work on Vista :P
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