Is there a way to set the Doom3 screen resolution when starting the game?

Question

I am running Doom3 on Linux. Everything worked out fine, as described in this documentation but I ran into a fix when I changed my screen resolution.

Now the games starts in a bigger window, the bottom part of which is inaccessible as it extends beyond my laptop screen size. The mouse pointer moves only inside this window, so neither can use the Doom UI nor can I move this Doom window to make the UI visible.

Is there a config file somewhere where I can specify the screen resolution, or some command-line parameters with which to start Doom3 ?

Answer 1

First, exit the game. Then open the base/DoomConfig.cfg file inside your Doom 3 installation directory and edit or add the following values, substituting your desired resolution and aspect ratio.

seta r_customHeight "1050"
seta r_customWidth "1680"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectRatio "2"

The aspect ratio values are 0 for 4:3, 1 for 16:9 and 2 for 16:10.

You can also run these commands in-game if you have access to the developer's console (opened with the backtick/tilde key). If you go that route, you also need to run vid_restart after changing these settings.