Doom 3 and Hardware

[pahn]

I have:

Abit VT7
P4 2.8C (800 MHz FSB)
ATI 9800 Pro on 4.7 Catalyst Final Drivers
512 MB PC3200 Mushkin Enhanced RAM

I am running on Medium, 1024x768, 2x AA, All effects.

Framerates are very good, very smooth, however it will randomly crash to desktop, or freeze, or randomly restart. What is the #^%$!(* problem here?? I updated drivers, downgraded drivers, reseated everything, cleaned out my case (moved wires around) for better airflow (if it was overheating that was the problem), pretty much everything. I am not overclocking.

I thought maybe it was bad RAM, cause other programs like internet explorer will crash giving me that WinXP dialog box with "would u like to report this problem" etc. Do you think this is a possibility? IDK really. Whatever it possibly could be, please post it. I really am annoyed by this.

Thanks.

 

[Arcanedeath]

You might want to try updating your chipset drivers, and also try the Catalyst Beta 4.9's they seem to work best w/ doom 3 (Omega 4.7's seem to work fairly well too)

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Belongs in troubleshooting or Software/Apps/Games

Anyhow, your suspection of RAM is my guess. Download Memtest86 and/or Prime95 and run some 8-12hr loops.

- M4H

 

[AmdInside]

Remember Carmack said that people would see problems on their cards that they never saw before because the game stresses features on the card that were never used before.

 

[MTDEW]

Precisely why i keep an image of a clean install of WinXp thats NEVER had video drivers installed b4.

Honestly, 9 times out of 10,if i think its a video driver issue, i restore a clean image of WinXp and install the latest drivers for my card then i usually have zero problems.

BTW: running Doom3 just fine with cat3.7's and/or cat 3.9's on my 256mb 9800 Pro rig and my wifes 128mb 9800 Pro rig. ( both pc's same sin sig except they have radeons)

Have you uninstalled and ran a driver cleaner yet?
Rage3D Guide

And my personal opinion = disable that VPU recover junk if ya havent yet.

 

[howdyduty]

Sounds like vid card is overheating. Try cooling very well.

 

[pirred908]

Originally posted by: pahn
I have:

Abit VT7
P4 2.8C (800 MHz FSB)
ATI 9800 Pro on 4.7 Catalyst Final Drivers
512 MB PC3200 Mushkin Enhanced RAM

I am running on Medium, 1024x768, 2x AA, All effects.

Framerates are very good, very smooth, however it will randomly crash to desktop, or freeze, or randomly restart. What is the #^%$!(* problem here?? I updated drivers, downgraded drivers, reseated everything, cleaned out my case (moved wires around) for better airflow (if it was overheating that was the problem), pretty much everything. I am not overclocking.

I thought maybe it was bad RAM, cause other programs like internet explorer will crash giving me that WinXP dialog box with "would u like to report this problem" etc. Do you think this is a possibility? IDK really. Whatever it possibly could be, please post it. I really am annoyed by this.

Thanks.

I'm haveing the same exact problem. I recently just reset all my BIOS to "Optimal". The only BIOS settings I modified were the CPU realted ones, so my computer would recognize the correct speed. I reinstalled windows XP Home. I have all my latest drivers. I think it may be just a faulty RAM issue. I'm thinking of RMAing both my sticks back to NEWEGG. Please tell me how you fix this problem, IF you do. Thank you.