rako1911: So I found my CD key on the Website, but it is not accepted in the game itself. Also the RoE Key is also pre entered, but not the same as on the website - and changing it does not solve the problem either - does anyone else face the same problem?
The digital releases of Doom 3 on Steam and GOG have a very stupid way of handling inserting CD keys. If you run into the situation where only one was inserted and not the other, for example RoE's CD key was registered but not base Doom 3 upon launch. Some users suggest launching into RoE first from the client and registering base Doom 3's CD key afterwards that way. I tried this method but strangely it seems to work with either game, I only need to register base Doom 3's CD key and the game accepted it, same for when I recreated Doom 3 having it's key pre-inserted but not RoE's. If you ran into both games have their respective fields are completely empty, then you have to enter BOTH CD keys together on that screen regardless of the game, registering only one set of CD keys will cause the game to complain the other didn't validate the missing CD key for the other game. It's also important to not that when entering the CD keys, they are NOT case sensitive from my testing but you need to make sure enter final two characters in the CD key at the appropriate field since originally the game's installer from the original discs had the keys being registered during installation in this 18-character alpha-numeric format with four characters divided by four dashes followed by the last two digits:
####-####-####-####-## When registering your Doom 3 or Resurrection of Evil CD keys in-game, it is in this format instead where one string holds 16 out of the 18 characters and the last 2 characters in another in the same field (press Tab to switch between different fields):
################ ## If you're still having issues trying to fill out your CD keys in-game, try deleting any files with the keyword
key in the filename from either base and d3xp folders and then try again. Alternatively, you can try to create a blank
doomkey and
xpkey by creating a blank text file with no file extensions but in this format in ALL CAPS with NO spaces in between each character:
################## I hope this might anyone out with getting the game to accept their CD keys.