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DOOM 3 v/s Windows 11

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First post, by Speedwarrior956

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Warrior reporting....

....on a major squabble i'm having trying to install such a legendary game into my "war machine". (See the attached screenshots for context.)

For starters, the installer -it uses the infamously pesky Windows Installer thingy rather than the more ubiquitous InstallShield Suite- throws a file deletion request....without it being installed!
(It actually did it on both localized distributions of the game.)

Then, after playing with the InstallShield pack's settings , I've been able to run it in maintenance mode, where it thinks i'm reinstalling it.... on my external HDD!

....and then, i kept on editing said settings until it, #Finally, decided to get to work....except that it requested to install said game on a "network" drive, only to end up insalling it on my "Games" repository. Partially, that is.
(D:\Activision\ID Software\Doom 3)

BTW, here i'm including said setup settings for further scrutiny.

Are there any other sugguedtions on how to install this on Win11? #PleaseHelp

Reply 1 of 3, by The Serpent Rider

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Is this purely for academical reason? Because you can transfer Doom 3 from any old OS without installation.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 2 of 3, by darry

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Maybe something is getting lost in translation, but why is the installer trying to create a "DOOM 3 server image" ?

Are you running the right installer ? Are you using original install media or the GOG release or something else ?

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Reply 3 of 3, by Grunt

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Use DHEWM3? And simply extract .pak files. However, I cannot guarantee that it works without problems on Windows 11.