So I got Doom 3 Today...

[jacktesterson]

Good Day,

I am running a Radeon 8500 video card because my 9800 Pro was hit by lightning. My system specs are below. Has anybody tried Doom 3 on a system comparable to mine?

I am at work and just recieved it today by Carrier so I won't be able to try until tonight

 

[DaveSimmons]

Software forum has threads on tweaks and performance on different systems. I think you should be able to get at least the 640x480 low quality performance of a gf4 mx.

 

[jpeyton]

I've played it on a Ti4200 800x600 hi quality with good framerates. there was a tweak guide on hardocp's new, i did some of the tweaks on their (backfaceculling, whatnot), and it really smoothed it out

 

[jacktesterson]

got any links?

 

[jpeyton]

the ocp is down for me

 

[jpeyton]

use notepad to create a file in your doom3/base directory called autoexec.cfg

in that file, cut and paste the following:

com_allowConsole 1
image_useCache 1
image_cacheMegs 128
image_cacheMinK 3072
cm_backFaceCull 1
r_vertexBufferMegs 48
r_orderIndexes 1
r_usePortals 1
r_useOptimizedShadows 1
r_skipMegaTexture 1
r_useShadowCulling 1
r_useLightCulling 3
r_useCulling 2
r_ignoreGLErrors 1
r_useInfiniteFarZ 1
r_useStateCaching 1
r_useIndexBuffers 0
r_useVertexBuffers 1
r_useCachedDynamicModels 1
r_useTwoSidedStencil 1
r_useTurboShadow 1
r_useShadowProjectedCull 1
r_useConstantMaterials 1
r_useNV20MonoLights 1
r_useLightPortalFlow 1
g_fov 85
image_usePrecompressedTextures 1
image_useNormalCompression 1
image_useCompression 1
image_preload 1
image_filter GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST

if you don't like the tweaks, just delete the file and everything is back to normal

 

[howdyduty]

With a 9800pro, your system would run Doom3 pretty well.