{"id":141,"date":"2011-08-24T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-08-24T13:16:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T13:16:34","slug":"how-to-get-doom-3-to-run-in-custom-resolution-1920-x-1080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"How to get DOOM 3 to run in custom resolution (1920 x 1080)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I dusted of my copy of DOOM 3, remembering the nice graphics, but when I installed it the game didn&#8217;t support my graphics mode (1920 x 1080)  So I tracked down a way to edit the custom mode so it would work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doom not running in correct resolution<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find the &#8220;DoomConfig.cfg&#8221; file found usually in: \u00a0C:\\Program Files (x86)\\DOOM 3\\base.<\/p>\n<p>Open the file and edit the following entires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>r_mode<\/li>\n<li>r_customHeight<\/li>\n<li>r_customWidth<\/li>\n<li>r_aspectratio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And modify them as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>r_mode <strong>-1<\/strong> &#8211; means putting into custom mode<\/li>\n<li>r_customHeight\u00a0<strong>1080<\/strong> &#8211; means custom resolution height<\/li>\n<li>r_customWidth\u00a0<strong>1920<\/strong> &#8211; means custom resolution width<\/li>\n<li>r_aspectratio <strong>1<\/strong> &#8211; this changes the aspect ratio <strong>0<\/strong> is for a 4:3 display,\u00a0<strong>1<\/strong> a 16:9 display (widescreen) and <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/span> a 16:10 display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They should look like this in the config file:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_142\" style=\"width: 920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doom3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142\" title=\"Doom3\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doom3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"910\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doom3.gif 910w, https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Doom3-300x187.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doom config file<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The aspect ratio is found near the bottom of the file. Then you can enjoy graphics like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doom-full-res.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"size-large wp-image-146\" title=\"doom full res\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doom-full-res-1024x470.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doom-full-res-1024x470.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doom-full-res-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doom-full-res.png 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovely jubbly!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For further reading on tweaking DOOM 3 I recommend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/tweaks\/doom3\/\">http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/tweaks\/doom3\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note: If you change anything in the graphics options in game, then the custom settings will be lost and you will have to re-edit the cfg file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I dusted of my copy of DOOM 3, remembering the nice graphics, but when I installed it the game didn&#8217;t support my graphics mode (1920 x 1080) So I tracked down a way to edit the custom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/?p=141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thepcmechanic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}