6800 and doom 3 problems??

[LeGaCi]

Hey guys,
I think this is the right forum for this. I'm thinking it has something to do with my videocard, but not sure.
So here's my problem, I got in on the early release of doom 3. I've been playing since saturday, first I set it on High quality on 1280x1024 and it ran smooth. Then after a level or 2, it starts to do the slideshow when an imp shoots a fireball at me or any other type of exlosion. Runs perfectly fine though when there isn't much lighting going on. So I reduced the resolution down to medium quality at 1280x1024 and it started to run smooth again. But once again when I get to a new level, it starts to do a slideshow when an imp shoots a fireball at me again. I even once reduce the quality down to 1024x768 and it did the same thing.
This is really starting to annoy me. Please help!

My Rig:
Abit kv8 w/ athlon 64 2800+
1gb Crucial ram
PNY gt800 GT OC

I also turned off AA and AF still doesn't help.
Anyone else who's played this gettin the same problem?
or is it my videocard?

 

[Insomniak]

almost sounds like a memory leak. You sure your RAM is ok?

 

[LeGaCi]

hmm, it should be. Any way to actually test it?

Oh, forgot to mention that I have dled all the latest drivers for videocard and all.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: LeGaCi
hmm, it should be. Any way to actually test it?

Oh, forgot to mention that I have dled all the latest drivers for videocard and all.

If you're asking about testing your system RAM here's a great memory tester... Memtest86

 

[Childs]

hmmm...how many levels open with an imp shooting a fireball at you????

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: Childs
hmmm...how many levels open with an imp shooting a fireball at you????

Forget having fireballs thrown at you, these bitches shoot heat seaking rockets at you!

These little bitches are a pain in the ass!

Then there's these big guys!

 

[Marsumane]

That is interesting. Maybe something to do with reading something off of your hard drive? maybe not even doom 3? Just one of many guesses i could make.
Some others are: update your drivers (chipset, video card, etc), try different games and see if something like this happens, scan for viruses/spyware, check cpu and ram usage of other applications.

 

[Ancientmtk]

OMG, i thot Imps are brown ugly pixels. THAT LOOKS LIKE the dude that casts flame on ur ass.

 

[LeGaCi]

Originally posted by: Childs
hmmm...how many levels open with an imp shooting a fireball at you????

even after I restarted my comp. and load up d3, it still does a slideshow.
But to answer your question, no level opens up with an imp shooting fireball at you.
My comp. seems to do a slideshow whenever there's lighting or special effects going on.
if the imp or any other enemy is there, it's fine, it's just when they shoot the fireball, rocket w/ explosion, or an exploding nade that it slows down.

 

[LeGaCi]

Originally posted by: Marsumane
That is interesting. Maybe something to do with reading something off of your hard drive? maybe not even doom 3? Just one of many guesses i could make.
Some others are: update your drivers (chipset, video card, etc), try different games and see if something like this happens, scan for viruses/spyware, check cpu and ram usage of other applications.

Far cry & american operation run fine. (on ultra high quality)
I've updated all my drivers.
cpu isn't doing anything else, same with ram.
no viruses or spyware. I checked it all before installing the game.

 

[LeGaCi]

Problem fix. Thanks for all your help guys. Apparently it had something to do with my duel monitors.
Once I set it to single, it works great!

I time demo it on ULTRA QUALITY at 16x12 and got 60.2 fps.
No Joke.

I used "timedemo demo1 1" command.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: Childs
hmmm...how many levels open with an imp shooting a fireball at you????

Forget having fireballs thrown at you, these bitches shoot heat seaking rockets at you!

These little bitches are a pain in the ass!

Then there's these big guys!

ROFL! It looks like the bigger the creatures get, the slower the FPS gets.

System processor/RAM/Video card?

Just curious...

 

[LeGaCi]

what's the command to view fps?

 

[mb]

com_showfps 1

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: Childs
hmmm...how many levels open with an imp shooting a fireball at you????

Forget having fireballs thrown at you, these bitches shoot heat seaking rockets at you!

These little bitches are a pain in the ass!

Then there's these big guys!

ROFL! It looks like the bigger the creatures get, the slower the FPS gets.

System processor/RAM/Video card?

Just curious...

1.7Ghz P4-M
512MB PC2100
32MB GeForce4 440 Go
/Toshiba laptop

I've got a new desktop system on order tho

 

[jamesbond007]

Hey, if your laptop can play D3, that's saying a lot!

I love my Toshiba...though, it has a pewpy graphics card. I have a Toshiba P15-S409. (2.8/HT, 512MB PC2700, FX5100 32MB)

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
Hey, if your laptop can play D3, that's saying a lot!

I love my Toshiba...though, it has a pewpy graphics card. I have a Toshiba P15-S409. (2.8/HT, 512MB PC2700, FX5100 32MB)

I can play it on my Toshiba A45-S121 (p4-2.2, 768mb-ram, +/-60mb-vram intel extreme int. graphics) but only at 640X480 in a window on low q
Woot, tweaked it a bit and now I am getting average 22 fps minimum 14fps at 800x600 full screen! Thats "playable" for me, on a laptop anyway