- Oct 13, 2004
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I cannot for the life of me (and for the searches in several of the web's biggest and most comprehensive tech forums) find anyone else with this issue. It seems very dire to me...
My DOOM 3 performance seems to go quite well, when it is not frozen. Here are some of the things I've ascertained:
1. Its not a sound issue. I thought it was at first because the game would make a horrible sustained stutter noise, like 2ms of the current soundscape repeating very fast. Switching sound devices ( onboard sounds, SBLive!, and a USB sound device ) don't affect this issue. Disabling sound completely does not resolve the issue.
2. It is not a driver issue. I have thoroughly cleaned and updated all my drivers, including video (and various clean installs of betas and NVidas 61.77's), motherboard, DirectX 9.0c, sound, and network. This iteration of my XP Pro installation is not all that old. Only a couple months.
3. Since my other games (including Far Cry 1.2, Deus Ex 2 and UT2004) don't give me any fuss at all, it must have something to do with the video card, since DOOM 3 is the only one of these to make heavy use of all the piplelines and shader gizmos... my knowledge kinda tapers off there, even after reading some of the more involved threads on technical specs of these cards and the various issues of other users.
4. Tried a couple of the AGP - related tweaks, such as disabling Fast Writes and Sideband Addressing, setting my AGP Aperture to 256, and so forth... all to no apparent effect.
Lastly, here are my machine specs:
Athlon 64 3200+
Chaintech VNF3-250 (NForce 3 chipset)
1 gig Mushkin Black 2-3-2 PC3200, clocked DOWN to 333MHz for stability, otherwise random CTD's
eVGA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
Primary drive: Western Digital Raptor 74gig SATA (includes my OS and DOOM 3)
Secondary: Western Digital 100gig ATA100 8mb SE... kinda old.. mostly for media and older games
OS: Windows XP Professional, SP1 with all latest additional updates barring SP2 itself. That SP2 just kills my OS completely. BSOD upon boot... weird.
Drivers: ForceWare 66.72, nForce 5.10
Tell me what you know, guys! I am at my wits end. Well, really I just wanna play some DOOM 3. Thanks in advance.
-Oden
My DOOM 3 performance seems to go quite well, when it is not frozen. Here are some of the things I've ascertained:
1. Its not a sound issue. I thought it was at first because the game would make a horrible sustained stutter noise, like 2ms of the current soundscape repeating very fast. Switching sound devices ( onboard sounds, SBLive!, and a USB sound device ) don't affect this issue. Disabling sound completely does not resolve the issue.
2. It is not a driver issue. I have thoroughly cleaned and updated all my drivers, including video (and various clean installs of betas and NVidas 61.77's), motherboard, DirectX 9.0c, sound, and network. This iteration of my XP Pro installation is not all that old. Only a couple months.
3. Since my other games (including Far Cry 1.2, Deus Ex 2 and UT2004) don't give me any fuss at all, it must have something to do with the video card, since DOOM 3 is the only one of these to make heavy use of all the piplelines and shader gizmos... my knowledge kinda tapers off there, even after reading some of the more involved threads on technical specs of these cards and the various issues of other users.
4. Tried a couple of the AGP - related tweaks, such as disabling Fast Writes and Sideband Addressing, setting my AGP Aperture to 256, and so forth... all to no apparent effect.
Lastly, here are my machine specs:
Athlon 64 3200+
Chaintech VNF3-250 (NForce 3 chipset)
1 gig Mushkin Black 2-3-2 PC3200, clocked DOWN to 333MHz for stability, otherwise random CTD's
eVGA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
Primary drive: Western Digital Raptor 74gig SATA (includes my OS and DOOM 3)
Secondary: Western Digital 100gig ATA100 8mb SE... kinda old.. mostly for media and older games
OS: Windows XP Professional, SP1 with all latest additional updates barring SP2 itself. That SP2 just kills my OS completely. BSOD upon boot... weird.
Drivers: ForceWare 66.72, nForce 5.10
Tell me what you know, guys! I am at my wits end. Well, really I just wanna play some DOOM 3. Thanks in advance.
-Oden