Doom3 and My System

[Mir96TA]

My Hardware
Dell SC400 Server
Set Video Setting for MaX perforamce
Cpu=3 Gig 1Meg Cache 800FSB Presscott (Retail)
ChipSet=Intel P875
Mem=1Gig Dual Channel DDR 800FSB (PC3200)
Video=ATI 9500 with Omega Driver
Sound= SB Live 5.1
3D mark Test Result

System Configuration


General Information
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

DirectX Version 9.0b

Mobo Manufacturer Dell Computer Corp.

Mobo Model 0F1425

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 8x / 4x, 8x

CPU Intel Pentium 4 2992 MHz

FSB 800 MHz

Memory 1022 MB



Display Information
Graphics Chipset ATI RADEON 9500

Driver Name RADEON 9500 (Omega 2.5.58)

Driver Version 6.14.10.6458

Driver Status Non WHQL - Not FM Approved

Video Memory 64 MB

Core Clock 353 MHz

Memory Clock 309 MHz



Sound Information
Sound Adapter Driver Name SB Live! Audio [CF20]

Sound Adapter Driver Version 5.12.2.252



Benchmark Settings
Program Version 3DMark03 Revision 4 Build 0

Resolution 1024x768@32 bit

Texture Filtering Optimal

Pixel Processing / Antialiasing None

Post Processing false

Vertex Shaders Optimal



Main Test Results
3DMark Score 4485 3DMarks

CPU Score 661.0 CPUMarks



Detailed Test Results


Game Tests
GT1 - Wings of Fury 168.7 fps

GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 25.4 fps

GT3 - Troll's Lair 24.8 fps

GT4 - Mother Nature 29.7 fps



CPU Tests
CPU Test 1 74.0 fps

CPU Test 2 11.7 fps



Feature Tests
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 951.1 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2617.0 MTexels/s

Vertex Shader 16.7 fps

Pixel Shader 2.0 44.8 fps

Ragtroll 18.3 fps



Sound Tests
No sounds 67.6 fps

24 sounds 56.2 fps

60 sounds Not Supported

 

[acx]

It'll play, but at 800x600 medium or lower.

 

[Mir96TA]

I guess I can use VIdeo card is a bottle necking
If I were to upgrade the Video card; What Video card I should go with it.

 

[Insomniak]

800x600 Medium with a bit of AA and you'll be fine.

I have:

AMD 1900+
512MB PC2100
GeForce 4 Ti 4400


Everything at stock, and I play at 800x600, medium detail, 2xAA, 0xAF. It runs plenty smooth, even through battles. To be fair though, I have optimized my system VERY well (I have 12 active processes on boot, that's it), keep it clean and in order, and have used tweakguide.com's Doom 3 tweak guide to adjust it perfectly for my system.

If you have everything in order though, you should be able to run it with plenty of detail.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

See sig.

- M4H

 

[Mir96TA]

heeee
I dont feel so bad now;
Cause People have $400 card and fighting with FPS......... I thoght I may not able to play
Cool

 

[Mir96TA]

I ran the TimeDemo 1
800x600 High Quality and got 33 FPS
Not bad Eaa ????

 

[Yanagi]

not too shabby, now buy a GeForce 6800GT and enjoy 1600x1200 2xAA @ 55 FPS

 

[Mir96TA]

those are expensive...... I dont like anything over 1024*768 on my 17' Monitor

 

[howdyduty]

9800pro would be good at 1024x

 

[Mir96TA]

what was that line; where I can re run the Demo
For some reason I cannot do it any more

 

[Gamingphreek]

In advance PLEASE STOP POSTING, "WILL MY SYTEM RUN DIII?"
THe people who regularly post in the video forums cannot keep answering relatively the same questions over and over. You could either do a search in the video forums or you could look at the many DIII performance analysis ratings out there. AT and |H| have some good ones. Also in the forums Keys has put together a really nice one.

To answer your question, your Video card is going to be your bottleneck as it only has 64mb of texture memory (ie Video Memory). Therefore you need to allocate a loarge amount (ie 256mb) for AGP aperture to get it to run decently because of the frequent texture memory overflow. So your main bottleneck is your Graphics card however the PRescott CPU is only good if you are doing 2 things. Encoding/Decoding (with SSE3 optimizations), or OCing with exotic cooling (ie Phase Change, Dry Ice, Liquid Nitrogen) as you can get clockspeeds in excess of 4ghz. SO basically your CPU is your second bottleneck.

However i am curious as to how a 64mb 9500Pro is getting that many 3dmarks.

-Kevin

 

[Algere]

?!?!?

I've never heard/seen a 9500 Pro with only 64 MB before.

 

[Mir96TA]

cause its not a PRO

 

[Mir96TA]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
In advance PLEASE STOP POSTING, "WILL MY SYTEM RUN DIII?"
THe people who regularly post in the video forums cannot keep answering relatively the same questions over and over. You could either do a search in the video forums or you could look at the many DIII performance analysis ratings out there. AT and |H| have some good ones. Also in the forums Keys has put together a really nice one.

To answer your question, your Video card is going to be your bottleneck as it only has 64mb of texture memory (ie Video Memory). Therefore you need to allocate a loarge amount (ie 256mb) for AGP aperture to get it to run decently because of the frequent texture memory overflow. So your main bottleneck is your Graphics card however the PRescott CPU is only good if you are doing 2 things. Encoding/Decoding (with SSE3 optimizations), or OCing with exotic cooling (ie Phase Change, Dry Ice, Liquid Nitrogen) as you can get clockspeeds in excess of 4ghz. SO basically your CPU is your second bottleneck.

However i am curious as to how a 64mb 9500Pro is getting that many 3dmarks.

-Kevin

As you may have already noticed; Its Dell
U can't OVER CLOCKED a DELL
and I promise its a ATI 9500 64 which is a Non Pro Video card

 

[manuelku]

o jeez.. I guess I can't play that game.. my p4 2ghz with a gefoce2 won't stand it even at 640x480 I guess.. is there any cheap alternative videocard upgrade so i can play the game decently smooth? like 30fps??

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: manuelku
o jeez.. I guess I can't play that game.. my p4 2ghz with a gefoce2 won't stand it even at 640x480 I guess.. is there any cheap alternative videocard upgrade so i can play the game decently smooth? like 30fps??

4200 at med quality or 9700 at high quality

 

[Mir96TA]

After some mods and tweaks I was able to pull 40FPS