I was ready to blame my earlier installation issues on an aging system. Now I can say that again – Doom III has serious issues with its installation procedure.
I spent the past 3 days rebuilding my PC – new motherboard, new CPU and memory, new main harddrive, new CD player. Tonight, most of my software has been reinstalled. Time to bring Doom back to life on this new system and see how it feels compared to the old one.
The result was the same :
– Norton Anti Virus had to be disabled (or it stops the installation dead in its tracks)
– The windows installer had to be updated with the runtime components available on the CD1.
– All three CDs had to be copied in a single folder on the harddrive for the installation to run smoothly.
It took only 45 minutes this time, instead of 2 hours, but it is still not an acceptable behavior from such an expensive game. After being in the making for 4 years, you would think they could have spend some more time testing the installation procedure.