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When Thief players who never played Doom 3 came to play The Dark Mod, the loading times were quite shocking to them. People would unzip all the pk4 packages in the Doom 3 directory, disable texture compression, defrag their hard drive, reinstall Doom 3, and scramble for any hint of improvement. Players began to complain about Doom 3 load times right from the start and modders spent considerable time trying to figure out ways to improve things. Doom 3 was the worse of the two since the 'chunk' system in HL2 split the long load times into little breaks between mission sections. Load times for games were going down up until this point and then suddenly two of the most anticipated games ( Doom 3 and Half Life 2 ) had the longest load times ever. Well, in theory these approaches are a nice way to skirt the painful task of building a tiered management system but in practice they are absolutely brutal for player experience. Since all loading was done 'up front' there would be more CPU and RAM resources to use for advanced AI, Physics, and Rendering. Valve, on the other hand, would survey the available RAM and storage and would define a chunk of a level that would load all at once ( similar to an entire Doom 3 level ) then when players reached the end of the chunk, a new estimate would be made and a new chunk would load. In a strange twist of fate, both 'id Software' and 'Valve' decided to rebel against this conventional approach at roughly the same time.ĭoom 3 would see a design where the entire mission would be moved into memory right at the start with only a single option ( image_preload ) to load some texture data 'just in time' or at level load. The downside of this conventional approach is that it requires additional CPU overhead and memory bandwidth to constantly manage and move the data. At the time, most games would only load part of a level and would have a complex paging system to move items in and out different tiers of memory.

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You must use tdm_installer to upgrade (or install) instead !Įver since Doom 3 released back in 2004, people have noted that it's approach to level loading was a little rough. NOTICE: tdm_updater is obsolete and will NOT work to upgrade to TDM 2.10. If you would like to pay your respects, please visit the dedicated forum thread here:

It is impossible to fathom all the things Grayman has done for TDM over the years and he will missed as both a developer and mentor for team members, mappers, and players alike. Grayman often recorded his own voice-acting and his stories often were tinged with a little of his unmistakable humor.

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Grayman’s “William Steele” series missions were always filled with complicated sequences and had a cinematic quality that few authors achieved. Grayman used his deep knowledge of id Tech AI and scripting to repair and improve TDM AI from versions 1.02 to 2.08.

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This release is dedicated to our departed friend and lead developer Rand Phares “Grayman” who passed away in May 2021.īefore joining the TDM team and rising to become the lead developer, Grayman was making mods for Doom, Quake, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (including the excellent “Stolen Artifact” mod).

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