there covering this in the gaming section too. I tried 512, but it didn't seem to do much. i got 20 fps on ultra at the next highest resolution, but its pretty choppy at that setting.

hmmmm. this game is strange, or else my computer is strange. have just reinstalled windows blah blah blah. have all the latest drivers, and everything is clean and nice. i power up doom 3, put settings to medium on 800 by 600 res, start a new game, opens up the console and writes that thing that makes me see how many fps i´m running at, notice i´m running at about 30-40 fps... BUT THE GAME IS FREAKING UNPLAYABLE!
turn that smooth mouse thing up halfways in the options, and add a hell of a lot of stuttering, and you have my play experience...
and when i think about it it has been like this in farcry also. and i just thought that that game was supposed to be half-stuttering... now this is driving me mad.


edit: after playing some more i can say that i honestly cant see any difference between playing at LOW settings 640x480 or HIGH settings 800x600... both runs at ****... even at low settings, while turning off everything under "advanced" the game stutters like mad... i´m beginning to feel my gpu might not be as it should be.

agreed

Ive decided that i get the best play with 256 (havent tried higher), medium on 1024x768, i also turned the shadows off just b/c id rather have the framerate. But its smooth as silk, never slows down at all. Mind you i can play on high with slowdowns on very intense parts, and ultra high doesnt seem much different than high to me. Medium still looks amazing

i'll be testing it tomorrow when I get it.

haha, i just tried 512..played it on high 1024 and it didnt studder at all..Im thinking half of my ram (1gb) might be right on b/c i did seem to see and increase with it compared to the high on 256 @ 1024......geez i need to stop playing with these tweaks and just play the game.

Here's a question... whenever I access the console I see a couple of warnings such as Could not load sound. It doesn't seem to effect the gameplay at all and I think it started showing up after I modified the config file with a few tweaks.

I noticed that too, im not sure what it is tho...did you make sure it doesnt do that when you have it set to default?

I'm almost certain that these warnings didn't come up the first time loading without tweaks.

This is what I modified in the config file:

seta image_useCache "1" [enables it]
seta image_cacheMegs "512" [number= half of total ram]
seta image_cacheMinK "25000" [number greater than 24000 is required]

i've heard people saying that turning the first one to 1 cases crashes.

I only put 512 to the cacheMegs....i didnt change the useCache or cacheMinK and its running fine. What do the other two do anyways?

Hey, Just new the the forum here...

Specs are below. I don't have an alienware (funds limited), so as of last year, I have the below Dell Inspiron 8500.

On order is a Geforce FX GO 5700, unfortunately, I only have a 4X MB so the card won't even be running at full potential. I had 2 X 256 Ram, but on order as well is a Gig of PC2100 DDR 266 Memory to add to the other stick of 256, putting me at 1.25 ghz Ram. Pentium 2.4.

Do you all think I'll be able to run this game on Low settings, 800 X 600?

I ran 3DMARK 03 yesterday a few times, and went from 1100 to 1240, witht he lap top cooling fan running, All graphics settings at High performance (Direct 3d and Image settings) and Vsync Off, but with No sound.

Will the sound test possibly help my benchmark?

Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions.. I read everything on here about tweaks and stuff and I just don't know what will be best for my lap top, if I can even run this game at all on low settings.

Thanks for any help !!

Question....
Will a 3.2g A51m with 9600 and 60g 7200 perform Doom3 better with 2g of ram compared to an identical system with 1g of ram?

Flip - I think you mean 1.25 Megabytes of ram, not GHz. Also, try running 3dm03 at th edefault settings, otherwise it is difficult to compare to others. Where are you getting the 5700 from? Dell? I was not aware that they offered that card as an upgrade...AW was the only one I knew of, and it won't fit in your Dell.

You should be able to play D3 at all low settings, but it might lag a bit in smokey or zombie filled halls.

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