What Res Are You Running Doom3 At?

[finty]

Here & here.

 

[thebluenewt]

Don't uncompress the pk4 files, iD have already said that it'll actually slow the game down.

 

[spray]

hot damn, that second link of finty's with the detailed stuff on the .cfg seemed to have a big effect.

my .cfg file didn't even have a line for video ram, added that in pretty quick.

i'm now running at 1024x768 with all the advance options on, no anti-aliasing, running super smooth!

 

[finty]

Don't uncompress the pk4 files, iD have already said that it'll actually slow the game down.

How could it? If they are uncompressed it doesn't have to be done during gameplay.

 

[mastaboog749]

Running at 1024x768 at high quality.

Got a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and an AMD 3000+ CPU all capped off with 512Mb RAM.

Why must you turn this into a HOUSE OF LIES!!!

 

[spray]

Running at 1024x768 at high quality.

Got a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and an AMD 3000+ CPU all capped off with 512Mb RAM.

Why must you turn this into a HOUSE OF LIES!!!

meh?

 

[finty]

Running at 1024x768 at high quality.

Got a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and an AMD 3000+ CPU all capped off with 512Mb RAM.

Why must you turn this into a HOUSE OF LIES!!!

meh?

Huh?

I think hes talking about the graphics card.

 

[thebluenewt]

Don't uncompress the pk4 files, iD have already said that it'll actually slow the game down.

How could it? If they are uncompressed it doesn't have to be done during gameplay.

Because they made the game and they know best!

Doom 3 was designed to read the compressed files, and the only time it reads from these is when LOADING, not during play, as everything is preloaded.

 

[skysnapper]

There's a 1.7 gig illegal "demo" .

ahh can't be arsed with d/ling the full game, only interested to have a play as a bit of tech demo to see how it runs, one level would have done me, not really interested in the playing through the whole game

 

[kknd_cf]

I run it at 320x240 on my GP32

Woah 8000x600?!?! Thats like a 40:3 screen ratio!

No he ment DOOM 3 for PC

Your stupid.

says the guy who can't put the right "you're" in the appropriate context.

 

[Rico]

Running at 1024x768 at high quality.

Got a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and an AMD 3000+ CPU all capped off with 512Mb RAM.

Why must you turn this into a HOUSE OF LIES!!!

Hehehe, are you quoting something? You MUST be. Simpsons? Funny, regardless.

i currently using 800x600 with all the advanced effects on, but no anti-aliasing (sp.) what the fuck is that anyway?!?

was running at 1024x768 but decided to lose some res in favour of more advanced things added in, must say i prefer it.

i'm currently running a laptop with 3.2g p4 ht, 512 ram, 128mb ati mobility 9600.

edit: originally had 8000x600, d'oh!

I am in the same boat here, 800x600 med is smooth but 1024x768 med is jerky when opening doors and such. Once again, stats: 1800+,512mb,64mb Gf4 Ti4200.

My spec is much lower than yours, but I have a feeling that either your ram isn't DDR, or your ATI 'mobility' means ATI 'slow' (laptop graphics cards tend to suck).

Oh well, for this game 800x600 is easily enough.

640x480 in medium detail or 800x600 in low detail

Dual Athlon 2600MP's (Barton 512k), 1GB PC2700, Geforce FX5600 Ultra.

It sucks how slow it runs.... but its still looks good and just as scary in 640x480.

You got shafted - make sure you upgrade your drivers, though, that gave me an extra two resolutions of performance (1024x768 runs like 800x600 did).

 

[thebluenewt]

Running at 1024x768 at high quality.

Got a Geforce 4 Ti4600 and an AMD 3000+ CPU all capped off with 512Mb RAM.

Why must you turn this into a HOUSE OF LIES!!!

Hehehe, are you quoting something? You MUST be. Simpsons? Funny, regardless.

It's the dentist to Ralph after he claims he's brushing 3 times a day.

Man, I'm sad...

 

[MegatronUK]

You got shafted - make sure you upgrade your drivers, though, that gave me an extra two resolutions of performance (1024x768 runs like 800x600 did).

Just tried out those tweaks for earlier in the thread - I'm still playing in 640x480, but its now high detail and much smoother! (cache set to 384mb, video mem set to 128mb)...

and DAMN its one scary game.... the sounds, the lights going out... those frickin things that climb along the walls and the ceilings! <shudder>

 

[Rico]

Cool, I have yet to try the patches. I find high and med to look identical, so opt for a higher resolution instead of higher detail. You might want to try 800x600 med instead, but then again it's a personal preference you may not agree with.

 

[diablo2]

i can't wait for my illegal demo to finish downloading
i wan't to play this game
damn you 39% with 174 hours remaining

 

[pubjoe]

I find high and med to look identical, so opt for a higher resolution instead of higher detail.

Yeah, I find that, maybe you need a better graphics card to get any difference?

 

[BaDToaD]

I know I said I'd post these links yesterday but yesterday we had major electrical storms and I unplugged the PC just in case it got fried.

Low End Card Tweaks

 

[unlucky]

hmm well my extra ram made the world of difference just all ati users make sure you get catalyst 4.9 beta which has been optimised for doom 3. There was some rumour that ati are re writing their opengl driver from scratch ( it never was very good anyway. ) Well cant remember who but someones spec was something like mine but 72fps is awesome the door stutters thing when basically loading the next room was when i didn't have enough ram (happened when i only had 384mb) but i've just got 512mb, maybe try getting rid of windows xp advanced skinnage.. Maybe try getting those 4.9 catalysts for your 9600xt ( same card as me. ) I'm using 1154 x something strange High quality i dont get anything near 72fps but i get nothing below 30fps. So i cant see unless your brain is totally hyperactive why you need 72 fps unless we're talking about counterstrike. Only other spec thats remotely relevant is a 2.5ghz barton over clocked to 3200xp. And you've got a gig of ram thats insane : /

 

[Shadow of Chaos]

I just did the Timedemo test benchmark in doom 3, finished with 1024 by 768 resolution high detail, 71FPS on my GeForce6800 ultra, the lowest ive seen in the game is about 30.. then again thats good since i have an athlon mobile XP. Now im hungry for more, the game runs well playable though.. i should think so for a 411 quid video card mind you

Btw.. if you leave the game run for a minute or so after its loaded, all of the info of the game is loaded into ram and after that it becomes silky smooth..

i have 512mb of 3200 ram, i cant believe how much of a pig this game is to be honest.. its eating my new video card like erm.. a hog and, something.

at least im ready for half life 2

extremely impressed with doom 3's graphics though.. im already on level 2 ( stuck atm ) The zombies look great in high detail.. well, everything does

EDIT : i am having a really good time on 1600 by 1200, believe it or not.. the FPS only dropped slightly when i was shooting at an enemy. other than that it stayed at a constant 50-60FPS


Here is a good pic i took in the highest resolution, note the good FPS here..

Second pic. ( not as good in JPG as .png )

and another

and this one, well.. i just had to add it, click the screen.. punch the turkey for more points till it dies.. hahah! classic

ok, so maybe i am sad taking the time to take those pics.. but they are awesome please dont flame me

 

[Klown]

1280x1024 high detail. all extra options checked (sans vsync) with 4x antialiasing.