40% speed increase in doom3

by **Tommy Boy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:33 pm

I did this and for some reason, now I cannot connect to any games online. I get this message. Does anyone know what it means?

by **Tommy Boy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:47 pm

sorry for the bump, but does anyone know why? I did these "tweaks" and now I cannot connect to anything online...I used to be able to?

WTF?

by **Murgatroyd** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:20 pm

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
sorry for the bump, but does anyone know why? I did these "tweaks" and now I cannot connect to anything online...I used to be able to?

WTF?

Yes, it's a pure server, so it's doing a content check on you. You modified your config files, therefore, your content check fails..

by **Tommy Boy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:29 pm

so in order to join anything lonine, I have to reinstall?

Nobody mentioned that before !!

aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I am not cheating, just trying to get better performance. Damn! :mad:

by **Mugzy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:38 pm

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
so in order to join anything lonine, I have to reinstall?

Nobody mentioned that before !!

aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I am not cheating, just trying to get better performance. Damn!

Well, you could just go back and undo the changes you made.

by **Tommy Boy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:39 pm

will that work or will the file still appear tampered with?

by **Agent-Commando** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:50 pm

Tommy, in theory, yes.

by **Tommy Boy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:54 pm

in practice, NO

I just tried and the same error...so I have to reinstall?

not happy.....

by **Agent-Commando** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:17 pm

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
in practice, NO

I just tried and the same error...so I have to reinstall?

not happy.....

D'oh!

I suppose, you could install the game in two different directories?

I haven't played multi yet, so this is a learning exp. for me hehe since I did all those tweaks too.

by **Hoog** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:25 pm

Actually, you should be able to make a new pak file and drop the config files you want to change in them. If it handles all files the same way, anything in a newer (higher then the 4th original) pak file, or .pk4 should over ride the originals. So you should be able to extract the config file, and make your changes, then drop it into a new pak file (pak005.pk4) for example. Then anytime you want to play online just move the new pk4 file outa your game dir. In theory that should work...

by **CodeRed68** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:06 pm

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
in practice, NO

I just tried and the same error...so I have to reinstall?

not happy.....

Tommy that sucks dude. I was thinking of trying this but I am not that techi and I figure I would screw something up. The game seems to run fine anyway so why mess with it.

by **Tommy Boy** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:23 am

Tommy is not happy...I did not have bad performance in the first place, so I was stupid for trying this, but it is still a pain in the arse!

by **Murgatroyd** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:12 am

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
Tommy is not happy...I did not have bad performance in the first place, so I was stupid for trying this, but it is still a pain in the arse!

As the saying goes, if it ain't broke...

by **shockwave203** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:15 am

sorry tommy

a lot of people had success with this tweak, so I thought I'd post it to improve performance.

i should have been more clear about making a backup copy of the file, or something...

by **Harry Canyon** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:17 pm

*bump*

BTW, anyone else try this fix?? I'm curious since I'll be loading this up this comming weekend.

40% speed increase in doom3

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