Doom 3 Problem No One Can Solve

[TheMajor]

Graphics are awesome but gameplay sucks imo.

 

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

Doom 3 does indeed blow gameplay-wise compared to D1 and 2. Graphics are nice though.. But I was dissapointed when that one monster on D3 had actual human skin colour.. and not Pink.. cause it was scarier pink.. lol.. just play the original 2.

Ok, so Doom3 limits the framerate? there's probably a console command to crank it up like the source engine. I know there is for Q3A which is the same structure they used for D3, so the console commands should be the same. Check for some.

The thing doom3 lacks the most is coop. Thank god for opencoop. Google it. It's pretty good.

Btw, in the latest drivers for ati, they found work-arounds for the lowered framerates in D3, so for ati vidcards just update them drivers.. and look:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050705/vga-charts-pcie-07.html

Now ati pwns nvidia in an nvidia-optimized game. yep.

Even the PCIE lineup gets a boost, and most barely trail the nvidia equivalents if not beat them:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050524/vga_charts-07.html

 

[DoomUK]

Ok, so Doom3 limits the framerate? there's probably a console command to crank it up like the source engine. I know there is for Q3A which is the same structure they used for D3, so the console commands should be the same. Check for some.

There aren't any. The console commands for Doom 3 aren't the same as Q3A. There is a command to uncap the game's ticrate/framerate, but as this is not what Carmack designed the engine to do it will probably result in physics etc going mental.

EDIT: There's an entire discussion on the Doom 3 engine's FPS cap over on http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=53711 .

 

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

Hahaha, that's hallarious. Then again, IDsoft did create the d3 physics, so I guess it's frame-dependent.. that sucks.

Now, Here, try this tweak guide, lots of stuff that'll help:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/doom3/

Remember to back up any original file you tweak just to be safe.

Most important one for you would probably be the "com_videoRam" setting as doom3 puts this quite low, usually just 64. I put mine to I think 104 or 120.. can't remember

 

[DoomUK]

Heyyo,

Hahaha, that's hallarious. Then again, IDsoft did create the d3 physics, so I guess it's frame-dependent.. that sucks.

Now, Here, try this tweak guide, lots of stuff that'll help:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/doom3/

Remember to back up any original file you tweak just to be safe.

Most important one for you would probably be the "com_videoRam" setting as doom3 puts this quite low, usually just 64. I put mine to I think 104 or 120.. can't remember

*sigh* Let's not start up yet another 'Doom 3's physics engine sucks; HL2's is waaaay better' arguement now, I've seen far too many all over the net since like last summer. It's old news.

www.tweakguides.com has a massive deditcated Doom 3 tweaking guide too (along with loads of other usefull stuff).

com_videoram should be set to the amount of VRAM you have (256, 512 etc).

 

[JustinMorefield]

Dude wow i have ezact problem .... i cannot fix it!! it does suck really bad it annoys me to holy hell i actuall replaced everything on my system ecept my case and guess what still have the problem.... Cpu specs: AMd64 3200+ (939) / MSI Neo plat.) / Xms Corsair 2x512 (2-2-2-5) / Maxtor 100gb hdd / xFx 7800gtx