Doom 3 is out!!!!! Hehe.. I know what I’m doing this weekend. 🙂 Well, maybe not the whole weekend… nah, who am I kidding!
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It’s been a long time coming, but Doom 3 is finally here on store shelves. I picked up a copy and though the game definitely lives up to the DooM legacy, the software leaves something to be desired. The first problem I encountered was with the included Macrovision copy protection software.
There are several references to this issue online (such as this one, this one, or this one) as well as one reference to it on Activision’s support site that didn’t help. Ultimately I ended up getting the no-cd crack from game burn world. Of course this is only a temporary fix until Activision/Id come out with a real patch for the game. All this time in development, you’d think they’d have tested the copy protection software a little more rigorously.
Update: The problem with the Macrovision software was aparently the demo of CloneCD I had installed. Unfortunately, the demo doesn’t have any menus pertaining to any sort of CD/DVD emulation, nor does it have the tray icon mentioned in the Activision support incident. It seems to me that the Macrovision software saw that CloneCD was installed, and has this in it’s list of software not to allow. This is something that should have been stated on the box. ie: “This software contains copy protection and is incompatible with the following products:” This will definitely make me rethink any future purchases from Activision.