'Official' DOOM 3 Thread

[Quall999]

sry to double post, but karlmueller. There is an alternative. I had very, VERY crappy framerates at first on my ati 9700 aiw (high@1024x768). But now, it runs very, VERY nicely. Hopefully you have alot of ram. I only have 512, and the game runs good. Higher would only mean better.

Anyways, just go into the base folder, and open the file "doomconfig.cfg" Find this line here:
seta image_cacheMegs "##" (mine was 20, some others were 32)
then set it to something that you can spare in memory, mine is now:
seta image_cacheMegs "128"
That should give dramatic speedups. Someone with a gig of ram could probably set it to 512. Anyways, people have reported as much as a 35f increase (one had 25, edited and got nearly 60).

[Luciel]

im saving this 2 tweaks in my notepad lol

When i get the game ill try:

Putting it at 1280x1024x32
with everything on high
then ill uncompress the pk4 things and then edit that file the other guy said, if it works...
Ill get a smooth HELL GOOD looking Doom 3

btw, i have 1gig of ram (dual channel so even better), what if i put 768 to spare? would that be pushing it?

[Quall999]

Well, I like to map for games, so the first tweak kind of bugged me. the pk4 is just an imported zip file. Extracting all those files gives me a headache.

oh yah, after I edited the line to seta image_cacheMegs "128", the frames went strait up to 60fps (the game is capped at this, so it won't go higher) with no demon entites on screen, down to 20-30 with enemy demons.

In my opinion, this game is a cross between resident evil, and halo. Movement, speed, and rate of fire is the same as halo (along with spaceship surrounds), but there are demons, zombies, and other baddies that move and fire like that of RE. And the atmosphere is just as creapy (a zombie might just pop out and scare the loafs outta ya). One of my 2 favorite games at that lol.

768, hmm, not sure. 512 would be great already, i mean, the default is probably 32 lol. 768 with nothing running in the background should be ok. Just uh, don't do the ultra settings. It needs like 500mb video ram, and they don't make any past 256 (yours) lol.