DooM III

[CornerPocket]

Thread for GAME & PC PROBLEMS, ISSUES, SETTINGS related to Doom III. (includes PC spec related questions).




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[MagusDraco]

Alright then. My Doom 3 keeps crashing while following that little spider drone right after you meet up with seargeant kelly. I've already tweaked the comp so that it does get decent fps while walking around and going in game. Anywhere from 24 during cutscenes to 48ish average and 63 at some spots. Tweaks I did were the ones at gamefaqs (same as the ones here just the performance one mighta had a little less and didn't have a custom ratio). Link to the tweaks (http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=12608&topic=15663590)

Anyway, my comps an Alienware Area51-M from a year ago. It's got a 2.66ghz p4, some 55 gig hard-drive, 512mb of ram, and an ati radeon 9000 mobility. The drivers for the mobility haven't been updated by alienware in awhile, and ATI doesn't distribute mobility drivers to begin with. Anyone got any help to try to either up my fps in more active spots (following the drone around does drop it to like 15) or hell, just make the game stop crashing. It also used to crash half the time I went to the menu or the pda, but defragging fixed that so far.

[abu_has_the_power]

a 9000 will have a hard time playing it

[Cygnuz-Y]

Holly shit, you cant play doom 3 in a 1 year old Alienware machine, thats shit dude, how much was it? $3000+ ????

[MagusDraco]

Well the 9000 IS 128mb. And the Alienware was 2500 bucks and still costed only like 100 more then a similar dell laptop last summer, and it was stuck with a suckier vid card. Probably needs one helluva good reformatting, and the drivers for the vid card are probably 6 months old. It's not replaceable either. They only started that like last spring or something, so I'm stuck with this vid card. Anyway, I'm just pissed that I keep crashing all the damn time. Might work better if Alienware would release new drivers..

Edit: Looked around Alienware's support place and they have some help to stop doom from crashing, gonna try those out and see if they work (involves changing standards creen resolution outside of game and messing with the bios, trying to find new drivers, shit like that)

[MagusDraco]

This deserves a new post. Alienware is working on drivers to fix doom 3's errors and have some beta ones out.

http://www.alienware.com/ftp_downloads/Lap...bility_8.05.zip (http://www.alienware.com/ftp_downloads/Laptop/5620/VGA/5620_ATI_Mobility_8.05.zip)

and

http://www.alienware.com/ftp_downloads/Lap...bility_8.05.zip (http://www.alienware.com/ftp_downloads/Laptop/766/VGA/ATI/766_ATI_Mobility_8.05.zip)

Are the beta drivers for alienware mobility 9000 (the top one) and 9600 (the bottom one).

The other possibility is to use the omega. Gonna try out the beta ones first.

[MagusDraco]

They got the game to work. It stopped crashing. I did have some fps fluctuations though. Lowest was 23ish. Highest was 63. Average was around 48. Beta drivers worked pretty good. Decided to format anyway since the comp was running slow (defrag didn't help much either). Still yeah, the beta drivers work well. Gonna do some more playtesting with 'em after I finish reinstalling everything.

[MagusDraco]

Alright, with doing my own tweaking I can keep pretty much 30 average, no fluctuations for the most part. There are some places where that instead goes to 60 or 20. This is with those beta drivers and me doing my own testing. I still wanna try to get 30 fps to be my lowest. So I'm gonna try a couple things. First, I'm seeing what happens when I install the omega drivers. See if they help or just crash the comp. I'll post back again, later.

Edit: Alright, with the basic performance file from in here (the one you have to exec when you start game) just modified a little. And with particles off, I have decent fps. 48 average. 60 on not os detailed spots. 30 in combat. 20 to 25 sometimes. But hte game is playable. Booyah! This game fucking rocks too! Just got to alpha labs.

[NTWEAK]

After looking in the pinned topics and searchimg the forum, I've had no luck

if my game was crashing then maybe I could find something.

However I've had a little trouble beating the sarge. Is there a trick or do I just have to find the skill for him?

[NTWEAK]

NEVERMIND

[Keikan]

Ok my friend has bought doom3, he can't connect to my server, i can't connect to his, he is using the private server crack, any way to make this work?

[james_bond_rulez]

wut if the real copy is preventing ur friend connecting to pirated copies? :huh:

[Monkeee]

wow this post just convinced me NEVER EVER by an alienware EVER

[CornerPocket]

Originally posted by Immortal Genocide@1 August 2004 - 17:27
Can sum1 plz answer my question, would Doom 3 work on a 256mb geforce fx 5500?
Yes the game works on cards lower than geforce fx 5200s so yup
Lowest supported ATI: Radeon 8500
Lowest supported Nvidia: Geforce 3 64mb

[CornerPocket]

Originally posted by Keikan@2 August 2004 - 10:57
i downloaded mine.

how do you activate the console anyways? i press ~ and nothing

I'm not sure which of these combos will work.

It's either Ctrl + Alt + ~  or  Ctrl + Shift + ~

[CornerPocket]

Originally posted by Immortal Genocide@2 August 2004 - 12:56
mine goes likes CTRL + ALT + ` ( the thing next to the number 1 )
A bit weird, but hey, it works.
Anyway, can someone help me with the fps thing, i need to know my fps on doom 3, thanks for the help...


Use FRAPS (http://www.fraps.com) , it shows your FPS and you can take screenthots and record your gameplay with it.

[CornerPocket]

Originally posted by V!per@5 August 2004 - 00:15
Oi, how do u find out your ip, im on a Dsl Modem and my inside ip is 10.0.0.1, i want to play some multiplayer whith a friend but we cant figer my server IP out


http://www.myip.dk/

[CornerPocket]

Min requirements are as follows:

  * English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
  * Pentium® 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon™ XP 1500+ processor
  · 384MB RAM
  · 8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and
latest drivers
  * 2.2GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for
Windows® swap file)
  * 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest
drivers
  * 100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest
drivers
  * DirectX® 9.0b (included)
  · 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0b
compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers.
      o ATI® Radeon 8500
      o ATI® Radeon 9000
      o ATI® Radeon 9200
      o ATI® Radeon 9500
      o ATI® Radeon 9600
      o ATI® Radeon 9700
      o ATI® Radeon 9800
      o All Nvidia® GeForce 3/Ti series
      o All Nvidia® GeForce 4MX series
      o All Nvidia® GeForce 4/Ti series
      o All Nvidia® GeForce FX series
      o Nvidia® GeForce 6800 series