Doom III / Doom 3 Console Commands, Benchmarks, and Cheats (PC)

Contributed by MickeyMouse  
Tagged: Windows Games  

Doom 3 is out and the console will be a tweaker’s heaven. This will be a running update of console commands as they are discovered.

If you know of any others, please leave them in the comment sections below. Enjoy your gaming experience. Thanks!

CLTR – ALT – ` Opens the console
(Hit the tilde key while holding the CLTR and ALT keys)
Once the console is open, type in the following commands. Some only work within an active game.

benchmark – benchmarks your system with different sizes of screen

sizedown – decreases the size of the screen

sizeup – increases the size of the screen

map mapname – Opens a map named mapname

bind – binds commands to key

recorddemo – closes the console and starts recording until you die, send a stoprecording command, or quit. It defaults to \Doom 3\base\demos and names it subsequently demo000.demo

stoprecording – stop the recording of a demo

timedemo demoname – run a demo for a benchmark

playdemo demoname – play a recorded demo

avidemo – saves a demo as an avi

god – God Mode

screenshot – Records a screenshot and places it in the screenshot directory

notarget – Enemies can not see you

noclip – Toggles clipping on and off

give all – Gives all weapons

give weapon_chainsaw – Chainsaw
give weapon_rocketlauncher – Rocket Launcher
give weapon_machinegun – Machinegun
give weapon_shotgun – Shotgun
give weapon_plasmagun – Plasmagun
give weapon_bfg – BFG

testlight – Increases the light in the room

gfxinfo – Displays info on your graphics card

quit – Exits

exit – Quits

For additional information, this recipe gives a brief description of all console commands.