Doom 3: Ressurection of Evil, specific slowdown probs

MurdarMachene

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Okay, so this message would be for people who are knowledgable about Doom 3 and have played Ressurection of Evil.

In RoE, there's a room with an X-ray that two zombies walk out from behind. On my A64 3400+ with an x800 pro and 1 gig of ram, even facing the x-ray screen slows my computer to about 1 fps. On my friend's 3000+ with a geforce 4 ti4200 and 512 mb of ram, it runs FINE in that room.

What is it about my computer that magically cannot process the stupid x-ray room? It slows down INSANELY here and it's definitely not because the scene just has that much going on. As I said earlier, my friend with a way less powerful PC and an nvidia card runs it with not a single problem.

Also, why the hell is it that every time I shoot someone at point-blank range with the double-barreled shotgun, the game freezes for half a second? How annoying is that...my favorite weapon causes super slowdown. Besides entirely turning off blood FX, I cannot figure out how to make this stop. Any tips?
 

MurdarMachene

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What about the slowdown with the double-barrel shotgun? Any half-second freezing after shooting one of the super-imps or revenants point-blank?
 

MurdarMachene

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I thought RoE instlals the 1.3 patch automatically...

Does the patch fix the double-barrel shotgun slowdown crap too?


Edit: post patch.
Hmm, seems to run significantly better when I shoot stuff...haven't gotten to the x-ray place yet. will check that later.

thanks for the tip.

post play edit again:

Yeah, the x-ray scene still runs like ass, but the game definitely runs smoother overall, especially when I shoot things at close range. It either doesn't freeze at all, or freezes so little it's hardly even worth noticing.