Playing Doom3?

[Duke of Rezin]

I just started playing last night. It took me an hour to "tune" my Radeon 9800 Pro. I actually had to underclock it by about 15MHz on both the memory and accelerator due to overheating issues. Haven't benchmarked it but it still plays just fine on High Quality. Funny thing though, the sonund occasionally cuts out (Audigy 2) and I have to back out of the game and toggle the surround speakers setting to get the sound back on.

[GrandDad]

How do you get it to show your FPS? I never really cared as long as it played smothly. It runs great on my 5950 Ultra at 1024x768 at high quality. I also have a gig of ram and an Athlon 2800. If I play the game before I go to bed I usually have weird nightmares.

"Copy and paste this to your D3 shourtcut properties.

"C:\Program Files\Doom 3\Doom3.exe" +seta com_allowConsole "1"

Then use your tilde key ~ to open console and type

com_showfps 1 (0 to turn it off)"

[GrandDad]

Just made it to Alpha Lab2. - Playing Veteren Scarier than hell. Oh wait, it is suppose to be hell.

P4 3.2 Extreme Edition
2GB RAM
NVidia 5950 Ultra 256

Auto detect set it on High details at 1027 x 768 Anti-Aliasing on 2x - working great.

I got in there earlier today , will get back to it later .

[ironwill99]

"Copy and paste this to your D3 shourtcut properties.

"C:\Program Files\Doom 3\Doom3.exe" +seta com_allowConsole "1"

Then use your tilde key ~ to open console and type

com_showfps 1 (0 to turn it off)"

Thanks!

[ironwill99]

I get anywhere between 20 and 60 FPS at 1024x768 at high quality. It just depends on what I am looking at. It seems like it takes more graphics power to render the displays on the computer consoles and storage lockers. I think I will wait for video cards with 512 meg ram on them before I upgrade. With something like that I am sure I will be able to bump it up to ultra quality. By the time a card comes out with that much ram I will probably be tired of this game anyway. Maybe one will be avalible by the time Quake 4 comes out.

[delmer_1]

I've been playing this game since the first day and it just continues to amaze me. I absolutly love it. It is by far the best looking, scariest, most immersive game i ever played. I am in Delta Labs 2b right now, not sure how much longer i have to play...but i have been playing for a rather long time already. this game is longer than i thought it would be...and that's a good thing.
I love how most of the enemies and weapons from the first two Dooms have been included. and even though they are drastically different..instantly recognizable. I love how they have redesigned the enemies, they dont look cheesy and stupid..all of them so far have been awesome..and very creepy. (the mancubus is awesome)

i havent run into the hell knight yet, but i have a feeling it will be soon. At first i thought the flashlight would be annoying, but it really adds to the suspense and danger. I have found that the dark empty rooms are generally much scarier than when you actually encounter the enemies though...fear of the unknown i guess.

The audio in this game is awesome, and really immerses you. the wispers are so creepy (they took my baby) and when the screen goes all red....i love that.

It didnt run as well as i had hoped..but i did to the tweak where you adjust the cache..and that helped alot. went from framerats in teh high 20s to the low 40s.

if you are not playing this game on a 5.1 system....you are missing out. I am also playing on my projector, instead of a monitor..so the pc is running through my 5.1 receiver in my living room, and i am playing on a 72" screen...simply amazing.

I am curious to try extracting those files to see if i get an increase in performace...but it is getting late tonight.

system specs:

P4: 3.0ghz, 800mhz FSB, HT enabled
2GB PC3500 dual channel DDR ram (4 x 512mb)
Radeon 9600XT, 256mb video
four 80gb seagate 8mb cache SATA hard drives in Raid 0 on a promise raid controller (128mb cache)

running the game at 800x600 on high settings
i did adjust the video cache value from 20 to 512, which did give me a 10 to 15fps increase on average.

also, just for fun, i installed it on my old PC to see if it would run, and it did. although it was pretty choppy. i didnt test the framerate, but i believe that if i were to adjust the cache value, it may be at least playable.

1.4ghz athlon thunderbird (which is lower than the 1.5ghz minimum requirement)
1.5gb pc133 sdram
geforce 4 mx440 64mb video

i ran it at 640x480, on low settings with all of the advanced options disabled except for bump mapping and i was simply amazed of how well this game still looked. i mean, i wouldnt want to play it on that system unless i had to..but even on the lowest settings like that, it still looked great. ID software really knows what they are doing.

[gerf]

1.4ghz athlon thunderbird (which is lower than the 1.5ghz minimum requirement)
1.5gb pc133 sdram
geforce 4 mx440 64mb video

I'm going to try it out on my 900Athlon t-bird sometime today or tomorrow.
784MB ram (pc133 @ pc100 speeds due to ****e mobo)
GF3 ti500 64MB

Unfortunately, my monitor is from 1999, and doesn't work very well in dark games. For example, I have trouble seeing corners in semi-dark hallways in counter-strike, and can't see a person crouched there... But I'm still looking forward to trying it out!

[TechZ]

i did adjust the video cache value from 20 to 512, which did give me a 10 to 15fps increase on average.

So the tweak worked huh.

[GrandDad]

Level 5 , keeping getting my b*tt kicked

Have found Plazma gun and made it to stop core melt-down

Have figure out get away from there without die'ing
FPS gets real slow and bad
making it hard to kill the bad'dys

[TechZ]

GD, u still play games! How fast are your reactions???







j/k

[GrandDad]

GD, u still play games! How fast are your reactions???







j/k

S..L...O....W.....W......W.......W

[ironwill99]

I just got to Hell and man is it hard!

[GrandDad]

I just got to Hell and man is it hard! You lose all your weapons and there are really tough demons running around. Some of them take about 50 shots with the plasma gun to kill.

Where's that ?

I hope I'm past there .

[ironwill99]

Where's that ?

I hope I'm past there .

It is after "Delta Labs Level 3"

See no spoilers now!

[ironwill99]

Running the built in benchmark gave me a score of 32.3 FPS at 1024*768 at high quality. This is with the cache trick and the latest Nvidia drivers on a 5950 Ultra card. This card used to eat all other games for breakfast (except maybe FarCry). What are you guys getting?