Thursday, December 8, 2011

Can the DOOM 3 demo be run on Windows Vista?

Question

I downloaded the DOOM 3 demo and tried running it on my WinVista box, but I got an error* and it won't run.

Is it compatible with Vista? If so, what do I need to do to get it to run?

*for those who want to know, it is an access violation reading location 0x000000

Answer

According to the Doom 3 1.3.1 patch notes, Doom 3 is Vista compatible. I'm assuming this implies that the original version had some compatibility issues.

According to various threads, the demo doesn't work properly in Vista, although the full game does.

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