Horrible Performance in Doom 3

[stingray1381]

Hello,

Please help! I have a Atlhlon 2500+ O/C to 3200+ speed, A-bit Nf7-s Motherboard, 1gig Corsair PC3200, Ram, WD 160 gig 8mb cache SATA hard drive, and a 6800GT video card, and I get terrbile doom 3 performance. Running timedemo demo1 only gets me about 40 frame per second with obvious stutters and pauses. The same things happens when I play the game. I have some service running in the background, but nothing that takes up too much memory. I even jacked back the clock speed to 2500+ levels, and there is no change. I am completely at a loss, please help. Thanks.

 

[stingray1381]

Oh, and I am running it a 1280x1024 with vsync on and no anti-aliasing during both the timedemo and regular gameplay. .

 

[AnonymouseUser]

You may need a BIOS update and/or new motherboard drivers. What video drivers are you using?

 

[Fern]

Maybe do some benchies (3d mark 03 or 05 and aquamark) to see how your setup is performing in general.

If it looks fine, move on to D3 tweaks.

 

[stingray1381]

I am using the latest nvidia drivers and motherboard drivers. That is the strange thing, I can run HL2 wonderfully at 1600x1200.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: stingray1381
I am using the latest nvidia drivers and motherboard drivers. That is the strange thing, I can run HL2 wonderfully at 1600x1200.

HL2 at 1600x1200? Are you posting from the future? I didn't think that game was gonna be out for a while.

EDIT: I'm off to hunt down the HL2 thread here

 

[stingray1381]

I'm talking about the torture test you get with Steam using the HL2(Source) engine.