Doom 3 (Resur.o.Evil.) and game specific graphic driver settings : YAY ! :)

[William Gaatjes]

I have played doom 3 before but never "Resurrection of evil".
I bought the bfg edition on steam and am playing it now .
And i am pleasantly surprised that the image quality settings in the radeon settings program work very good here.I was fiddeling around with the settings to see what happens.
I do this often with older games to make the game look better if possible.
Older games are such a light load on a modern gpu that this is often possible without the gpu breaking a sweat.

I have the following settings now for doom 3:
Triple buffering on,
Anti aliasing mode to 8x.
Anti aliasing method : adaptive multisampling.
anisotropic filtering forced to x16
texture filtering quality at high.
Tessellation mode to overide and x64.

It is always 60fps(steam overlay) @1920x1080 and the gpu fans hardly spin up at all because of the light load on the gpu.
This game is no problem for an RX480 /8GB and i have to say the game looks a lot better with forcing those settings on. It comes a bit more in the vicinity of image quality of the latest doom.

Of course, this can be done with both AMD and Nvida driver settings. And per game specific, not global.
Way better gaming experience.


edit:
Added link and tessellation mode:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/DH-012.aspx#Link3

 

[TechBoyJK]

Yep.

I had similar experience a few years back when I first got my 970gtx. I installed Doom3 BFG, cranked it up, including some tricks in the nvidia control panel, and between the smooth 60fps without hitching, and refined visuals it really felt like a modern AAA game all over again.

I'd go as far as to say a 'remaster' would go over well. Just a few modern lighting features from latest ID engine would really bring it up to today's standards.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Yep.

I had similar experience a few years back when I first got my 970gtx. I installed Doom3 BFG, cranked it up, including some tricks in the nvidia control panel, and between the smooth 60fps without hitching, and refined visuals it really felt like a modern AAA game all over again.

I'd go as far as to say a 'remaster' would go over well. Just a few modern lighting features from latest ID engine would really bring it up to today's standards.

Yeah, that could work. And would be nice to add a bit more tesselation on the heads of the characters. Some really have that pointy parts of the face that gives it a way it is made out of triangles.

This is standard game footage. With the filtering on, it looks better.

 

[ibex333]

Playing this too. I was just thinking the other day how this game looks so good it can easily compete with SOME of today's games. I really wouldn't mind if a certain modern game was made using Doom 3's engine, and I would certainly love a remaster.