Resolution not changing?

[Eva'Zorah]

I went to change the resolution to the highest one available. Then it says you need to restart Doom 3, so I do that, but when I start it up it goes back to 640x480. Any fix?

[Marwat]

same problem... i sent them a support ticket to let them know and tried this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8MsbasgAgE
without success.

[Eva'Zorah]

I guess I buy Doom 3 BFG Edition.

[Marwat]

I found the solution ! Here it is:

"There are tons of threads on this but try this,

Launch game, open console (~ key) and type these commands one at at time:

r_mode -1

r_aspectRatio 2

Exit the game and open your DoomConfig.cfg file located in your Doom 3/base folder. Alt+F and type custom in the searchbox. You should see a couple commands that say customHeight and customWidth. Manually input your monitor's resolution where the xxxx's should be. So if you have a 1920x1200 monitor, customWidth should be 1920 and customHeight should be 1200. Double check and make sure r_mode is -1 and r_aspectRatio is 2 in your config file.

Launch your game and it should be the proper resolution. Your in-game menu will still say 640x480 but just ignore that because it's a display menu bug."

It's not from me, but it worked perfectly !! Now the game is awesome :D

[Eva'Zorah]

Yeah I saw that. That's why I created this because that doesn't help I don't even have a customWidth or customHeight. I'm just going to buy the BFG Edition I heard it's better.

[Marwat]

Trust me this is the solution of your problem. Be sure you entered your screen settings (1600*900 for me) correctly, it should work properly.

[Eva'Zorah]

Did you not see what I typed? I said I don't have a customHeight and customWidth. Besides getting BFG Edition is beter since it contains every single Doom game in the world.

[Marwat]

if you have steam's doom 3, you cannot not have this: "DoomConfig.cfg file located in your Doom 3/base " :P.
Anyway, BFG edition contains every single Doom, which is awesome :D.

[Eva'Zorah]

I do have that, but when I open it there's no customHeight or customWidth.

[Marwat]

seta r_customHeight "900"
seta r_customWidth "1600"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "-1"

and farther

seta r_aspectRatio "2"

Trust me you DO have it ^^. It took me long to find them, too.

[Jagdpanzer]

You may also have a "autoexec.cfg" in your "doom3/base" directory; if you do, try looking in there for the custom width and height that Julius mentions.

[Eva'Zorah]

Oh! I thought it started with customHeigh and cutomWidth.

[Sonozaki]

Originally posted by Julius:

seta r_customHeight "900"
seta r_customWidth "1600"
seta r_fullscreen "1"
seta r_mode "-1"

and farther

seta r_aspectRatio "2"

Trust me you DO have it ^^. It took me long to find them, too.

create a autoexec.cfg which inclued this content and type in your resolution.
in "seta r_aspectRatio change the "2" into a 1 if you got a 16:9 screen

[Marwat]

@Zun nonono !! you don't have to create this file (autoexec.cfg) ! It's already there: "DoomConfig.cfg file located in your Doom 3/base folder".

[Eva'Zorah]

This discussion is dead I have Doom 3 uninstalled and plan on Getting the BFG edition instead.

[Sigmund Faust]

Thanks for the tips, I came across the same problem. A couple bits missing for me, like

-- Setting AA and AF which I won't link to because it reverted the resolution changes.

-- How to enable the console (ctrl alt ~ wasn't cutting it):
right click Doom 3 in steam, click set launch options, paste this in, without quotes: " +set com_allowConsole 1" .