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• The Doom 3 Alpha (version 0.02) from the E3 2002 was leaked on 10/31 and is downloadable via file sharing:
  • eDonkey: ed2k://|file|doom_iii_e3_alpha.rar|381781972|1d67104ded376842d34827573abcdc64|
  • Sig2Dat: sig2dat:///|File:doom_iii.rar|Length:381781972Bytes,372834KB|UUHash:=scZQTuXzz5r/bpTSBQYfuO6DW/4=|
  The corresponding readme can be downloaded directly.
• The demo features three playable levels and an editor.
• ALL-IMPORTANT: You have to either install the Detonator driver in the 41.09 version to be able for launching the alpha or use the Riva Tuner and this instruction:

  1. Install Riva Tuner..
  2. Start Riva Tuner, on The Main menu go to driver settings -> Customize -> Open GL..
  3. Open GL -> Compatibility..
  4. Choose NV40 Emulation In the dropdown menu for open gl hardware acceleration mode..
  5. Play Doom 3
  6. Look at the bitmaps if confused....

• Obviously the demo is adjusting itself to the hardware environment, i.e. it looks much better on a 2 GHz computer compared to a 1 GHz machine. Therefore screenshots of various quality are existing – so nothing to worry about screenshot fakes!
• The alpha runs with the default settings 'only' at 640×480 pixels! Who would like to check it out at 800×600 or even at 1024×768 opens the DoomConfig.cfg, looks for seta r_mode "3" and replaces the "3" with a "4" for 800×600 pixels or by a "6" for 1024×768 pixels. Furthermore one can use the highquality.cfg, simply launch the alpha with "doom.exe +exec highquality.cfg".
• The sequence, as shown off at E3, can be watched with runact.cfg (thus: "doom.exe +exec runact.cfg"). Please note: The loading takes quite a while!
• By pressing F2 all the nice light effects disappear, but the game runs smoother!
• With F12 you can get all the weapons and F10 is the God mode!
• Another hint for all using the highquality.cfg: If you set the value "image_anisotropy" from "8" to "1" you lose indeed anisotropic filtering but experience a performance increase of 60% instead!!
• You might already notice, that the editor is not working. I can help you with that: Download this file, create inside the "\Doom_III\base\" directory a folder named "scripts" and copy the "doom.qe4" into it. – done!
• Furthermore the RUN_DOOM.txt states that the map "fred/e3bathroom5" might not run everywhere. Should this be the case for you, I have a patch ready: Download this file and unzip it into the "\Doom_III\base\maps\fred\" directory by overwriting the old one. It runs now!
• The code for the door in the second level is 924!
• Already played via network? No? Then read through this instruction and you are already gaming two-player multiplayer mods! (Download of that particular map!)
• Regarding the leak's source this alleged chat log by Christian Antkow (xian@idsoftware.com) could be found on a French website:

  Xian> ATI leaked it
  Xian> oh we will. We are hoping our rep gets fired.
  Xian> John sent them a flame mail yesterday basically saying "This has hurt our relationship"
  Xian> haha, no
  Xian> not really
  Xian> they sent us a development laptop with a full build of Unreal Warfare on it
  Xian> yep
  Xian> Well, we deleted it
  Xian> that`s a whole can of worms we don`t want to get into
  Xian> yeah, well, ATI has clearly violated our NDA
  Xian> we thought about that.
  Xian> but, no
  Xian> ATI is on our shitlist righ tnow
  Xian> we are not dealing with them until further notice
  Xian> no, it`s not public chiQ
  Xian> We know ATI leaked it. We watermark all releases
  Xian> Squiggle: ATI has a relaxed policy about pre-release software. Remeber, they ave us a laptop that had Unreal Warfare loaded on it 3 months ago
  Xian> They don`t seem to care about strict enforcement of NDA`s
  Xian> on a positive note, people seem to *REALLY LIKE* the leaked shit

  It looks like that ATI (meanwhile part of AMD) is the one to blame. Shortly after John Carmack commented on 11/03/2002 regarding the alpha:

  No, this was not leaked on purpose.
  
  Yes, we are upset about it, and it will have some impact on how we deal with some companies in the future, but nothing drastic is going to change in terms of what support is going to be available.
  
  Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.

  He indeed does not mention ATI but "companies". Whether ATI is truly to blame is going to be revealed by the future cooperation with them.
• The alpha runs with the mediumquality.cfg by default, the highquality.cfg is also included. Here is the corresponding lowquality.cfg!
• THE ULTIMATE ALPHA FIX V1.2:
  This patch fixes among other things the following stuff:
  • All maps are accessable via the singleplayer menu and are loaded sequentially after each other
  • No more sound issues during the intro
  • More performance
• There was also a model viewer called "Deep Exploration" by Right Hemisphere before it was acquired by SAP in 2011. Download of the appropriate version 2.00.1211!
• Also the first fan map is already surfaced!
• All 471 console commands as well as all known info regarding the alpha in this compilation!
• The first clips are emerged:
  • DeLamp
  • Badkamer
  • Compilatie
  • Finalcut
  • Badkamer 2
  • Pinky
• A complete GERMAN instruction for the editor is also available!
• Regarding older computer, having trouble to run the alpha, a fix was crafted.

All monsters

Enter the following into console to have fun with all monsters:

All weapons

Enter the following to have an answer for the monsters spawned above:

Some things do not work yet! For more commands take a look at this compilation. (Download of the file to convert demo to clip!)

Doom 3 Beta

This is just the alpha with some additional, inofficial maps! Thus FAKE!