Doom 3 CD key problem

[chop_tomatoe]

Hello there. I installed TDM, applied patch and it wont start mission. Game is asking me for DOOM 3 CD key. I understand this game is using doom 3 engine but it is free, is it? I bought my doom 3 seven years ago and it never asked me cd key till now. I dug all my house upside down but i just cant find CD case. Can this be bypassed somehow?

[lost_soul]

If you try to play normal Doom 3, does it ask you for the CD key? If it doesn't ask for one, the CD key is still saved on your hard drive and if you lost the case, you should write it down ASAP because hard drives can fail at any time. That said, if your HDD fails, you probably have bigger problems than not being able to play TDM.

 

Anyway, the CD key is usually stored in your doom 3/base directory in a file named DoomKey. I would write the contents of that down so you don't lose it. I don't know if the base directory where this is stored is the main doom3 directory, or the one for the local user on Windows because I haven't used the Windows version of the game in forever. Hopefully I didn't just confuse you with that last bit.

Edited September 24, 2011 by lost_soul

[SiyahParsomen]

I use Windows version. You can find your key in doomkey file(open it with any text reader) under C:\Games\Doom3\base (this is my path where I installed Doom3)

[ECHELON]

Have you installed this patch? click

[chop_tomatoe]

If you try to play normal Doom 3, does it ask you for the CD key?

after i installed 1.3.1.1304 patch it does

 

Have you installed this patch? click

i did

[chop_tomatoe]

You can find your key in doomkey file(open it with any text reader) under C:\Games\Doom3\base

 

i found that file, opened it and this is content:

// Do no
// Do not give this file to ANYONE.
// id Software and Activision will NOT ask you to send this file to them.

[rich_is_bored]

The key should be on the first line like this...

 

12ABCDE1ABCDEFGH
// Do not give this file to ANYONE.
// id Software and Activision will NOT ask you to send this file to them.

 

NOTE: That's not a legit key. It's made up. You'll have to find your key and punch it in.

[ECHELON]

Chop. you have a MP.

[chop_tomatoe]

Chop. you have a MP.

 

It actually worked thank you

off to play:P