When trying to play Doom III the following "error during initialization" comes up. I am running XP pro with sp2 with a ATI Radeon 9800 pro and have updated the drivers fron the ATI website. DOOM 1.0.1282 win-x86 Sep 16 2004 16:45:51 1007 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! 768 MB System Memory 128 MB Video Memory Winsock Initialized Hostname: steven-9w1e5tkw IP: 192.168.1.4 IP: 172.148.44.36 doom using MMX & 3DNow! for SIMD processing ------ Initializing File System ------ Loaded pk4 D:\Program Files\Doom\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0xf07eb555 Loaded pk4 D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x28d208f1 Loaded pk4 D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0x40244be0 Loaded pk4 D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0xc51ecdcd Loaded pk4 D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0xcd79d028 Loaded pk4 D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0x765e4f8b Current search path: D:\Program Files\Doom/base D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files) D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files) D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files) D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files) D:\Program Files\Doom\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files) D:\Program Files\Doom\base\game00.pk4 (2 files) game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0 file system initialized. --------- ----- Initializing Decls ----- - ------- Initializing renderSystem -------- using ARB renderSystem renderSystem initialized. --------- 4966 strings read from strings/english.lang Couldn't open journal files execing editor.cfg execing default.cfg couldn't exec DoomConfig.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg 4966 strings read from strings/english.lang ----- Initializing Sound System ------ sound system initialized. --------- ----- R_InitOpenGL ----- Initializing OpenGL subsystem ...registered window class ...registered fake window class ...initializing QGL ...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB ...calling CDS: ok ...created window @ 0,0 (640x480) Initializing OpenGL driver ...getting DC: succeeded ...PIXELFORMAT 7 selected ...creating GL context: succeeded ...making context current: succeeded Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB ------- Input Initialization ------- Initializing DirectInput... mouse: DirectInput initialized. keyboard: DirectInput initialized. ------- sound: STEREO X..GL_ARB_multitexture not found X..GL_ARB_texture_env_combine not found X..GL_ARB_texture_cube_map not found X..GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 not found X..GL_ARB_texture_env_add not found X..GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two not found X..GL_ARB_texture_compression not found X..GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic not found X..GL_EXT_texture_lod not found X..GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias not found X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found X..GL_EXT_texture3D not found X..GL_EXT_stencil_wrap not found X..GL_NV_register_combiners not found X..GL_EXT_stencil_two_side not found X..GL_ATI_separate_stencil not found X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found X..GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object not found X..GL_ARB_vertex_program not found X..GL_ARB_fragment_program not found WARNING: Unknown string id #str_06780 ******************** ERROR: #str_06780 ******************** Error during initialization Shutting down OpenGL subsystem ...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success ...deleting GL context: success ...releasing DC: success ...destroying window ...resetting display ...shutting down QGL ...unloading OpenGL DLL Thanks, Steve Thanks, Steve

What processor are you using and how much RAM do you have?

its your openGL problem, if you download this game from bittorent, it probably missing file, if not, then its your openGL problem. go either upgrade the game or update the drive. try to do both. P4 3.2GHZ kingstom 1GB DDR 3200 Nvidia geforce FX 5950 256mb

it seems you got this game from internet, not the retail CD. if so, you might wanna download it again. P4 3.2GHZ kingstom 1GB DDR 3200 Nvidia geforce FX 5950 256mb

... DOOM 1.0.1282 win-x86 Sep 16 2004 16:45:51 1007 MHz AMD CPU with MMX & 3DNow! Is this correct? Check the games system requirements out. http://doom.neoseeker.com/DOOM_3/PC/pages/system_requirementsa/

Doom III has worked on this machine before. I have another machine that it is doing the same thing it is an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe with a AMD 2600 xp cpu 1gig of ram. The game is made from a copy of the original cd's. The game has worked before. Thanks, Steve

Dude, you have a Radeon, right? Chuck it, man!!! That's the problem-it has compatability problems. Doom3 was made on a system with a GeForce FX. And you may want to get a retail version of the game, because downloads from the net and nocd patches have problems. If you do have the retail version, make sure the CD is OK and it installed correctly. Also do a system wide diagnostic. You don't want ANYTHING to go wrong while playing that game. Like get a lame error like that while kicking some huge boss's arse.