Doom 3

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:52 pm

These are my current specs

-AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 Gigahertz)
-512 mb pc2700 ddr sdram
-Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard
-Geforce FX 5200 (8X agp)128 mb

Will this system run doom 3 on an 800X600 resolution (I never game higher) with medium to high quality or is there something i must improve to do this. As it is i don't have a lot of buck and medium to high quality is all i want.

Post by **Scourge** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:56 pm

Yes, it should. I have a very similar system.

Athlon XP 2200+
512 pc2100 ddr
ATI - AIW radeon 9200 128 mb

Runs smooth on medium quality at 800x600.

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:59 pm

Yes, well i'm doubting on the damn gfx card. It timedemos quake at 125 fps. And some other game in a far off time used to still fuck up with this card. I'm going to look for some benchmark between those two since the rest of the system is ok.

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:01 pm

http://hardware.gamespot.com/ATI-Radeon ... -535-x-9-9

Your card is 400 mhz and mine is 350 mhz. any idea how that might affect it?

Post by **Scourge** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:07 pm

That was the only thing that i thought might make it different. My mb only lets me run at 4x though so that might possibly make up the difference. Not sure though. Mebbe someone with more vidcard knowledge can answer that.

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:11 pm

It says that mine beats yours with aa and such on and that it is easier to overclock. Looking into a slight overclock now, never done it.

Post by **Scourge** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:12 pm

Coolies. :icon14: Ought to do it then.

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:16 pm

Overclocking will simply void my warranty but i don't care about that. I don't need to push it to extremes simply want to near that 400 mhz level of yours. Now how do i go about this?

Post by **Scourge** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:17 pm

Shit if I know. Never oc'd anything.

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:20 pm

Same here :icon32:

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:28 pm

Lol memory speed started at 333 mhz, now 340. I'm actually nervous, that doesn't happen often.

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:31 pm

optimal it says 310 core 456 mem. Think i'll go with the standard 250 core and 400 mem then

Post by **Survivor** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:49 pm

Going with 260 core and 400 mem i'm getting 7 fps extra in

Now to find doom3 for a nice buck

Post by **Scourge** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:32 am

Tried it yet?

Post by **Survivor** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:25 am

scourge34 wrote:Tried it yet?

Not yet, haven't been to the city.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:15 pm

I doubt your graphics card will be able to handle it. I've got a FX 5900 myself and I usually don't get much more than 40 FPS in 800x600. Problem is hardware shaders are butt-ugly slow on the FX series.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:19 pm

Try a few games of Nexuiz on your rig (in real-time lighted mode) and see how well it performs. It's somewhat comparable to D3 in that respect.

Post by **Survivor** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:31 pm

5-10 fps :P. Still, doom could be tweaked a bit i think without losing the atmosphere

Post by **Scourge** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:36 pm

One thing to try is turning off shadows. Upped my fps considerably.

Post by **Survivor** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:39 pm

That's kinda the entire ambiance of the game isn't it.

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:47 pm

Turn off shadows.

Post by **Scourge** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:49 pm

It doesn't make it completely shadowless or anything. Lemme see if I can get a good screenshot of it both ways right quick.

Post by **Scourge** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:57 pm

Wierd. My screenshots are coming out a bit dark and a little blurry.

Post by **bork[e]** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:20 am

you expected something different with Doom 3?

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... ws&spell=1

First 2 images on Google.

edit: Looks like they are screwed up though.