yes i meant the video drivers, cuz my friend had that problem and he updated the drivers and it was fine. same video card too. AMD Athlon XP *barton* 3200+ Asus A7N8X-X Kingston PC3200 512 DDR ATI Radeon 9600SE 40 GIG Western Digital 7200 RPM 20 GIG Maxtor 5400 RPM X-Dreamer II

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How do I increase my 'Page File' amount? Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AMD Barton 2800 Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe 512 DDRAM PC2700

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Umm...is Doom 3 a NEW game or is it an old game?? does it have the same graphics as the 1st one??? or is it like a modern FPS?? El-Trucha

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"Umm...is Doom 3 a NEW game or is it an old game??" LOL....*_*!!!! You're not serious asking this are ya?? ~evans~

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Hey STU if you want to increase your virtual memory then right click on my computer goto properties,advanced,click settings within performance then click advanced tab and click change. MSI K7n2-delta ilsr mobo AMD 2800+ 333 @2225 mhz 2x512 matched DDR 2700 WD 74gb 10000rpm sata HD nVIDIA G-Force 2 Ultra SB Live Platinum Kenwood 72X cd-rom MSI 52X24X52 CDRW

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I flashed my 9800 Pro to XT, and every game I have ran great like that BUT doom 3. I had to back off on the clock speeds of my video card to get it to run right. MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!

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Ok done, Thanks Custom Built. Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb AMD Barton 2800 Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe 512 DDRAM PC2700

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wonder if mine can run it.....Athlon 2400+, 256 DDR, GeForce 5600 256Mb... >return * from users where clue > 0 0 rows returned

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hello, I am using a dell inspiron 9100 w. an ATI mobility radeon 9700 card, and i have the same problem on doom 3 (freezes every few minutes)...can anyone help me out? Can someone maybe post the link to that video driver that specifically had doom 3 in mind? thanks.

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yeah i have the same problem it freezes after a few minutes in the game. Im running pentium 4 2.4gigahertz, 512 RdRam (eek) and nvidia Geforce ti 4600 128mb..i got EVERYTHING turned low..like 800 x 600 and low quality setting..and it STILL freezes..im so po'ed right now..thanks for anyhelp

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here is a link to the BETA ATI Catalyst driver which is supposed to be optomized for doom3. This driver is in its beta stage and I dont recommend using it unless you know what you are doing... Use this driver at your own risk. Chris http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

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I must say that the ATI 4.9 Beta referred to by Chris in the post above has worked without any issues so far... I was getting random freezes/crashes about every 4-5 minutes of play with the Catalyst 4.7 drivers and now they have seemed to stopped completely... Although I still experience some lag spikes every now and then I'm alot more satisfied with the lag than the freezes... GJ Chris and thx for the info... Just for reference: XP 3200+ A7N8X-E Gig of Twinx PC-3200LLPT 9800 Pro (4.9 Doom3 Hot-Fix Driver)

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yeah well all i see are help for ppl with AtI cards..and none for nvidia..:(

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can anyone help, i try to install doom 3 and as soon as i put cd 2 in the install just stops.....no errors just sits still.

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The Beta driver from ATI doesn't seem to work on the Dell Inspiron 9100 with Radeon Mobility 9700....says "Setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration. Please make sure you have the required hardware or software." Of course Dell tech support out in India doesn't have a clue. Guess Dell has a special h/w that the ATI beta doesnt cover. Freakin figures!

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Hey having an annoying trouble with Doom 3, I get like white snow during gameplay. Game works fine, no crashes, just this annoying white snow, like some random white pixels on the screen. Anyone any idea? AMD FX-51 Radeon 9800xt 60gb SATA Audigy 2

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Same problem. 3 gig Athlon 512 ddr ram 9800 pro I can get away with if I turn EVERYTHING on low, set graphics card and game settings to lowest possible and usually I can get away with no crashes, though still the odd one now and then, the more I ramp the graphics up, the more frequent the crashes get. Even though it runs completly smooth so far up the settings. The screen messes messes up and sound locks in a loop. I hope there will be some sort of support to fix this, I think it's something to do with memory cache.

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I got it figurued out! I am running an inspiron 9100 laptop from dell and had problems running doom 3. So i looked around and found a forum. http://notebookforums.com/archive/index.php/t-35183.html download the catalyst driver which is the very top link from Volo. try installing the driver and you should get some kind of an error saying you don't have the right hardware or something. then go down to the 5th post, Percman24601, and go to that DH mod tool link and follow instruction. when you open the mod program, it says it auto opens into c:/Ati. under that click on the folder wxp-w2k-DOOM-HOTFIX.... and choose your graphic card and mod it. It is very easy to do and my game runs great now. Thanks everyone for posting and helping, it has helped much.

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I already installed the 4.9 drivers, bit of an improvement, but didn't help a great deal. ...the other thing some sort of mod for laptop cards, so still nothing to help people like me. ;p

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hey, posted today about my graphics problem with the snow. For any of you other guys having this trouble and you have an ati radeon card, try getting the Omega drivers for the radeon. I dled it and it works the same as the stock ATI drivers, except no snow. Works like a champ so far and no crashes. Sorry I'm at work w/o the web address but Im sure you can google it. AMD FX-51 Radeon 9800xt 60gb SATA Audigy 2

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Another thing to try if you have a laptop, is to have your battery charging while playing it. It gives it more power.

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Hello i have the same problem. When i have played in about 5 min. then doom 3 Crash. Every time! I have update my graphic card. and i have 6 fan in the comp, so it can't be an overheating thing. Please, if some one can help me send me a mail or write here. Thanx jesper

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Can anyone help? I'm having problems when right after launching the game it goes to a black screen (like it will start) and then just drops back to the desktop like nothing happend. I'm runing AMD athalon XP 2.7 w/radeon 9700pro and 512MB of memory. Thanks.

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***ATTENTION ALL NVIDIA GEFORCE USERS!*** I fixed my lockups and freezes :D I use geforce 3 and doom 3 was locking up after anything from a few seconds to a few minutes. Game would freeze and sound would loop and stutter and I had no choice but to hit the reboot button. But I went to www.nvidia.com and download the drivers version 61.77 and not only did it completely solve the problem, but game performance has increase by quite a lot to :D And when I say quite a lot, I mean I am using 950Mhz AMD CPU with 100Mhz SDRAM and an original GeForce 3 card and now it runs quite smoothly unless there is lots of fighting going on =) and thats on low graphics settings but with all the advanced options enabled like the lighting etc.. I hope this helps all you geforce users who have the same problem =)

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hey can anyone help me??? ive installed doom 3 now but when i try to run the game with the cd an error saying i have cd/dvd emulation running/installed, ive completely uninstalled everything ive also shutdown every process that is not needed, it still comes up with the same error............this is starting to annnoy me.......but i can run the game with the no cd crack >_< please can someone help me

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I'm having the problems with the game freezing all the time with my Geforce 4 Ti 4600 card. i just quicksave every second and come back to it :P - getting an upgrade this week.....although i'm just d/ling the newest drivers to replace my omega drivers....dx9.0c WASN'T the problem (after thinking it was, deleting it, and getting 9.0b) To all those people who're having difficulty installing the game.....you could try installing it manually. You know how the game cd's are all made of zip files? why not just extract them into the proper folders? might that work? i did it once for an old corrupt demo cd of revolt. I also heard that if you unzip all the .pk4 files (winRAR) into the base directory, and delete the .pk4 files [i'd back them up] (so the game doesn't use them) the game doesn't have to uncompress everything when it runs it - hence, better performance? i've yet to test it our but it makes sense. hope this works...

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I've actually tested that, the only problem is that u cannot play multiplayer by extracting those files then deleting them....

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I as well was getting Doom 3 crashes after a couple minutes on high resolution, after about 10 minutes on Medium. I’ve got an AMD 2600+, XP pro, 512 RAM and a Radeon 9800 Pro (256). I tried the new Catalyst drivers for Doom, but my machine wouldn’t even boot after loading them so I regressed…does anyone know where I can find the Omega Drivers?

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Nvidia crashing::: I need a solution ... Please help. I have a machine with the hardware spec as follows hardware:- AMD Athalon XP2100 Gigabyte GA7vaxp motherboard 1.25 Gb DDR400 Ram (2512 modules) NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700oc 256mb driver V61.77(I have tried both the international and english versions) on board sound card WINXP PRO SP1 The latest drivers and Directx9b Doom 3. To re cap: 1. I formated my machine. 2. I have a fresh install of windows XP Pro with SP1. 3. I have downloaded the latest drivers and installed them (even though they are not signed by microsoft) These are for the sound device, graphics. 4 downloaded and installed the latest motherboard drivers. 4. I have installed the latest directX9b. 5. I have defragged my machine. 6. I set the doom3 settings to minimum and switched off all the effects (High Quality Special Effects, Bump Mapping, Specular Lighting and Shadows (I Have tried other settings too)) 7. the side is off my case to allow adequate cooling. 8. I tried to run the game from cold this morning (my PC was left switched off overnight). 9. stopped all other programs and processes. I have a machine now entirely dedicated to Doom 3. Yet it STILL crashes back to desktop after loading screen. I have spent a week going through every part of the OS and the drivers and installing, uninstalling, formatting reinstalling etc. I have not even got into the game yet. I haven't managed to play any of it! Activision have tried to help but not found a solution yet. Can anyone else help?

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Ken Hall I've got a system that is almost identical to yours. Same CPU, GA7VRX Motherboard, FX 5900 ultra graphics card. I've got the exact same problem. I have at least one post on another forum that is nearly identical to this one including the dedicated computer part. Don't bother upgrading your graphics card or your power supply, it won't help. Activison has copped out on me twice now. No answers from them. Have you had any luck yet?

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Hello. I have a fix. Download directxc http://www.download.com/Microsoft-DirectX-Drivers-Redistributable/3000-2121-10305889.html?tag=lst-0-5 It works now for me =) jesper

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9.0c, SP 2, 61.77, Omega Drivers, kxproject...whatever none of them work. Activision needs to get off its butt and release a patch for their overpriced coaster set.

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Hi guys, i have been having the same problem as you all - crash/freeze but i seemed to have solved it for my 9800XT. I just disabled Overide and it hasn't crashed since! Hope that might help someone :) Need an upgrade tho: Athlon 2200xp 512 PC2700 300W PSU It runs well on Medium, bit too jumpy on High - hopefully a athlon 64 3400xp, 1 gig RAM and 600W PSU will solve it once and for all!

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Maybe I am a bit behind on graphics cards, but i have a FireGl t2-128....a nice CAD card, but people say it works on doom 3, but they must be better people than i am. I get to the part where you open the door in the very first area, and BAM freezes....what is going on? Can i use those catalyst drivers...last time i tried different drivers, windows had to be reinstalled, and that took forever please help me

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Hi there! I'm running an Amilo A 1630 3400+ (which has a 15.4" 1280x800 widescreen panel), and was having the same probs as channy had on the Dell. I installed the catalyst drivers (as per channy's instructions). Doom now works great :), but I cant get widescreen anymore :( Can anyone help? Thanks

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