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Doom 3 - 2000, XP & beyond

By Thomas McGuire

On July 29, 2004, 6:26 AM

Noticed over on Planetdoom that apparently it's been confirmed Doom 3 will not run on Windows 9x:

We went straight to the horses mouth so to speak & asked Activision themselves. The reply we got was that it is confirmed & indeed true that DOOM 3 will only run on Windows machines that have windows 2000 or XP & not lower.

Would you like to know more? No doubt this will a problem for some, but, well, if you're intending to buy Doom 3 you ought to have a new system anyway, so this shouldn't be too surprising, though it is somewhat interesting to see that id is once again at the forefront of getting people to upgrade their systems (Albeit normally graphics cards) ;).

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  1. August 3, 2004 3:47 PM
    ---agissi--- said:
    Ah........ahha...................haha...hahahha, this is hilarious......................
    Reply
  2. August 3, 2004 4:17 PM
    DigitAlex said:
    please someone tell me the story, I really would like to know how that nightmare......... ended
    Reply
  3. August 28, 2004 3:22 PM
    Unregistered said:
    Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but Doom 3 WILL run on 9x systems, just with a little bit of hex editing (just two bytes!). I think it was somewhere on the PlanetDoom forums.
    Reply
  4. August 28, 2004 9:49 PM
    ---agissi--- said:
    Thats cool.. I wonder if every app in year 3000 will still run on 9x systems, cuz it seems 9x isnt going to be dropped!
    Reply

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