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I was just curious how different video cards are performing with doom3, just to clear up all the arguements about 9800pro 128mb vs 256mb, x800 vs 6800 etc etc...
Doom3 isn't out until next week in the UK, I'm going to wait until October to buy it anyway because I have a little more work remaining for my degree and could do without the distraction factor. By October i'll be freeeeeeee from education for good and i'll have time to play it as much as I want. i'll probably wait until then to buy a new Graphics card, hopefully they'll be slightly cheaper by then and i'll have saved some money up.
So what have you lucky Americans found out so far?
Will a 128mb 9800pro run it on max? does a 256mb make much difference? How do lower end cards like the fx5200 cope???AMD Athlon XP2200+
Aero7 lite
512mb Crucial pc2700
Abit NF7-s V2.0
80GB Seagate SATA
120GB Seagate SATA
Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms
SB live 5.1 Digital
I don't have the game yet, it's arriving tomorrow. Rest assured that a 9800 pro will not run it maxed. I do know that.
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Im in Australia.
I know someone that can run it at high on 1024*768 with a 9800pro 128mb
I myself can run it on medium on 800*600 without a problem.
I reckon a 5200 would be able to run it on low, although i havnt known anyone to try it.
I think the extra 256mb ram cards will be able to cope better with a higher resolution.
And i havnt seen anyone run it on Ultra High steady with a good resolution, so as 'Id' said that it was reserved for future 512mb cards.
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Asus P4P800S mb
P4 2.4Ghz (800Mhz)
1Gb DDR3200 Ram
Asus Geforce FX 5600 128mb
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So is it out in already Australia too??
I'm thinking that europe got a raw deal there!AMD Athlon XP2200+
Aero7 lite
512mb Crucial pc2700
Abit NF7-s V2.0
80GB Seagate SATA
120GB Seagate SATA
Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms
SB live 5.1 Digital
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I ran it in ULTRA last night at 800x600 without any problems.The only issue I had was when I would enter a new section of a map,the game would pause for a split second(I'm assuming to load data).But other than that I was quite surprised at how smooth it ran.
I decided my optimal settings would be:
High/AA8or16@1200x1600 resolution.At this setting the game runs great and I dont any major frame rate loss although I'm assuming at some points it does lose some only I/eye cannot notice.The game has an excellent engine.
9800pro
768 PC2700
P2.4@533fsb
All talk about having to spend massive amounts of monies to get ULTRA playability is BS.
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Ive got it running on a 5950 ultra and i notice better framerates than Halo PC and Farcry. Recently the heads of my college gaming club(KGB, K-State Gamers Board) went to CPL and wopn 5 new 6800GTs. They asked They talked to a few people that were working on the nForce chipsets and they gave them a few tips on performance issues. to get top performance out of your cards set the AGP aperature size to what your videocard ram is but DO NOT exceed 1/2 or your system RAM size. This is mainly for performance on extremely graphically intense games, such as Doom 3.
Also another tip is if you do have a video card that does 8x AGP to hard set it into BIOS, instead of autodetect. Sometimes MOBOs misinterperet it.
ALSO ***** DON NOT PLAY DOOM 3 IN THE DARK****
its a tad too realistic looking and may even give you nightmares...
Good luck with your performance and happy gaming!
If you can play Halo PC just fine, then you have no problem to fix.
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Okay I may be wrong about my game settings.
I select all my settings to what I desire then hit apply,restart the game,as it says to do,and the game defaults all my settings to the original 640x480 res with AA off!!
I tried saving after the setting changes and still no luck.When I start the game it says at the bottom of the screen 'settings successfully restored'. WTF!!
I have been trying to get it to run at my preferred settings for about a half-hour and all its doing is defaulting.
Help!!
No wonder it ran great in ultra mode.
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"I don't have the game yet, it's arriving tomorrow. Rest assured that a 9800 pro will not run it maxed. I do know that"
Well it runs fine on my 9800 Pro on Ultra settings (see my post on Doom 3 benchies).
Ultra settings utilises 500MB of texture memory though, so there's a fair bit of disk access on my lowly 128MB card in-game. But the timedemo flows like water.
Some people are like Slinkies?, not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs...
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Give me fps numbers. If it's dipping below say 15 fps or so regularly, I don't consider that running well.
My copy should be here today, so we'll see. #&#@^*#@^* freakin' job interview tomorrow...one would think I'd be happy about that. ;-)
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I havea Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (overclocked) and have the game running with the new ATi Catalyst Beta drivers. I get 40-60fps (refresh lock at 60hz) in medium at 800x600 with 4x AA on.
It runs really well, I thought I would have to get more RAM. The game looks great on medium. A Radeon 9800 Pro will do well in DOOM3, however it will be quite out-of-date by Otober 2004 (with the next gen cards coming out in Winter 04/Spring 05, AND the ATi X800/ Gf 6800 Series already here).
It's one of the best games I've played in a while for sure.
Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb
AMD Barton 2800
Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe
512 DDRAM PC2700
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"Ctrl + Alt + ` (for console) then type:
timedemo demo1.demoRun it twice and use the second score so the textures are fully loaded.
At 1024x768 HIGH settings (no AA or AF) I get 36.0 FPS.
At 1024x768 ULTRA settings (no AA or AF) I get 27.1 FPS.
Ultra settings are kind of pointless in-game unless you have 512MB on your vid card as there's way too much disk access for those textures, but it's nice to see it in the demo.
2600+, 9800 Pro 128, 512 PC2700"
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There are no noticable dips, just short pauses as new textures needed to be loaded into memory. As I said, kinda pointless in-game, but it's to do with memory rather than the GPU as when textures are loaded it's smooth as a baby's behind.
Some people are like Slinkies?, not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs...
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Karunt.
Just confiriming wat u said " to get top performance out of your cards set the AGP aperature size to what your videocard ram is but DO NOT exceed 1/2 or your system RAM size. "
I hav a 128mb card and 1Gb of Ram, so it would be save to the the aperature size to 128? I think its on 64 atm.
Just double checking cause i wouldnt want to stuff anythin up.
Thanks.
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Asus P4P800S mb
P4 2.4Ghz (800Mhz)
1Gb DDR3200 Ram
Asus Geforce FX 5600 128mb
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Set it to 256 if you have a GB of RAM, effectively giving you a 384MB graphics card.
Some people are like Slinkies?, not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs...
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i set it to 128mb, and it seemed pretty unstable, ran 3dmark2003 and got some weird s--- on the pixel 2.0 tests.
Increased my score from 2650 to 2730.
Is it fair to measure it with 3dmark?
Ive put it back to 64mb for time being.
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Asus P4P800S mb
P4 2.4Ghz (800Mhz)
1Gb DDR3200 Ram
Asus Geforce FX 5600 128mb
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increaring the aperature size over the size of your graphics card isnt reccomended. Id keep it the same as your video card memory. because the porcessor only has to poll it once, if its set at 1/2 then it has to poll it 2 times to load the full amount of data. kinda makes some sense. but as always what works for someone else may not work the best for you, just do some testing but dont set the aperature size too low because this will cause performace degradation and even errors. Good Luck!
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I am currently employed as a teacher until I find a job in computer networking.
Yeah, I'd personally rather have 1024x768 high quality than 800x600 Ultra.
It seems to be running well at that. Timedemos give me 45fps.
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Alright cool, just wonder because I want to go into the computer field but I dont know which one.
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