So it's 2020, you want to play some OG Doom 3 on PC but the game's UI is scaled all wrong on 16:9 and you don't want to change anything else in the game? Then this is for you!
I found myself in this exact situation a few days ago when I wanted to replay the old, good Doom 3 without all the BFG changes but found out that it doesn't have a proper 16:9 UI option. The game allows you to stretch the screen as much as you want, but the UI just scales along uncontrollably and so your aiming recticle looks all weird and distorted.
I found a few mods that kinda fix this, but also make all sorts of changes to the game. Some even have the gall of making changes in balance! So if you just want the original Doom 3, as untouched as possible except for the properly scaled UI, you're in luck!
P.s.: I'm not a Doom 3 modder in any capacity. All I did was download the latest Redux mod right here on moddb and strip out the UI fix to the best of my abilities. All credit goes to Clear_strelok and the amazing Redux team.
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Ok, so first things first: I'm not really a modder. I do appreciate some mods, especially when they involve quality of life changes or hilarious stuff like the laughtracks in Skyrim. However, I have never created even a single map for Doom 3, nor anything like that. I'm sort of an Unreal guy, so that editor looks like absolute gibberish to me.
That said, I've been involved with the classic Doom community over the years, and am a bit of a nazi with screen resolutions and pixel-perfect stuff. I absolutely hate stretched pixels, or like those indie games that decide to do pixel art but have no respect for pixel ratios and start farting particles of different sizes everywhere in their game.
Anyways, I'm also not a big fan of Doom 3 BFG. I got it recently for the Xbox One and it just made me want to play the original, so I got it on PC and, surprise surprise: the UI doesn't properly scale when you play the game in widescreen. Now, even though I'm a bit of a purist, I do enjoy playing games in widescreen when there's support, and there is support in Doom 3, even though it involves editing some files.
Well, so I'm on PC where you can mod stuff, and here I come, browse every single page of moddb and can't find a single mod that does just what I want, which is to fix the widescreen UI. I keep looking and then a friend recommends me this Redux mod, which supposedly fixes lots of stuff, including the widescreen resolution thingy.
So I download the mod and starting messing around the files, and voilá: I find a way to change just the UI and nothing else, via importing some files to the Doom 3 root directory and picking the new found mod from the Mods list.
And that's all I did. I created NOTHING, and I can't emphasize that enough. All I did was pick up some files from the Redux mod, isolate them and make them work by themselves, which took me about 10mins of work. I'm just releasing this for ease of access, really.
So that's it. If you're a pedantic ass like me and just want to play in widescreen whilst having your game otherwise untouched, this is what you're looking for, hopefully.
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"I've been involved with the classic Doom community over the years"
"I'm a bit of a purist ******* with my Doom 3"
Translation: The first Doom game I ever played was Doom (2016) when it launched but for some reason I weirdly act like a cringey Doom elitist as its part of my quirky personality.
Please don't be one of those people. You're bordering on being worse than the actual elitists that used to stalk the community pre-2009.
I've been an admin in the Brazilian Doom community since 2006 or so, and I don't really see how anything I wrote makes me look like an elitist of any sort. Your hostility is not appreciated.
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How long did it take you to write that out? What was the point of replying?
I didn't time how long it took to write that out. My best guess is like 2min or so. I enjoy replying people online. It's good exercise to deal with feedback. What was the point of your comment in the first place, though? You didn't contribute anything with it.
P.s.: I've timed this comment. As I end it, it took 1'21.8".
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I was going to type out a full response but, **** it, its not worth it anymore.
Alas, another comment that aggregates nothing.
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Okay...
@_Draxin_ hey, I'm a bit late but seriously **** you. Give a little bit of ******* evidence, there's one paragraph mentioning how he's been involved in the classic Doom community, how is he an elitist? I got introduced to the franchise with Doom(2016), I'd still call myself someone in the classic Doom community. Can you please just tell du0 why the **** he's an elitist instead of dodging a very simple question? If you don't give coherent evidence in your next reply(if you even give one) then maybe just ******* think about the reason why liking an old game in a franchise we all like makes du0 or me an elitist.