Gavin Stevens's Blog

Dude, wanna hear some funny! I am running an ECS board with an AMD XP 2600 and a Geforece 4 Ti 4200. I am playing it at high mode, and it moves so fast it's incredible.
Ain't that weird or what?

Actually, it <em>is</em> possible to <a href="http://blogs.lns.kicks-ass.net/moonjihad/archives/000158.html">run Doom 3 on a Rage 128</a>.

So, guess what, i run Doom 3 at ultra quality with a 32 mb ge force 2. It looks great (800 by 600) and runs very smooth.
I have an amd 3200+ runing at 2.4 ghz
512 mb ddr ram. Hows that for people who are spending all of thier living money on 6800's. HEHE

The problem is your lack of CPU "power". Although the GPU + RAM on your new video card is more then adequate to render the scenes at 1024 + high quality, there are many other aspects of the game engine that still relies on the CPU. But, why didn't just try to play the game at 1024 with high-quality to see how it looks like?

In my experiance, they aim low when recommending settings. If you know what sort of hardware you have, and it's capabilites - just go for it. For instance, I was playing Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault last night. It told me to run 800x600 + Medium quality (Default), but all looked/felt fine at 1150 + high-quality. It actually kept on prompting me everytime I started the the game that I wasn't using default settings and performance might be affected. So, there you go. Just try it.

Yea machine is a pretty fast 2.8mhz , dual ddr 1 gig ram, with a decent video card, a Geforce FX 5600 ultra 128meg ram and UT2004 plays great.. but when I bought doom3 is CHOKES BAD. Doom 3 sucks...

paying 500 dollars for a fucking video card to play doom 3 is retarded. Doom 3 game is crap.

UNREAL beats doom all to hell.

Doom 3 plays excellent on medium quality settings, i play it with a 2.8 p4 radeon 9200 , a $100 video card. If your system has more than 512 mb memory there are tweaks where you can allocate some of your systems memory to aid your video card. You don't have to spend $500 on a card the low quality setting is for older computers, the medium quality is for most current set-ups and the high quality is for the top cards and ultra high quality was designed for cards that are to come with 512 memory (not saying that you can't use these settings now because many can) using a good sound card helps the quality and performance of the game also because it lessens the drain on the cpu and system memory.for the tweak if anyone is interested install a text editor program such as text editor (free trial works nicely)
Look for the file C:/Program Files/Doom 3/Base/DoomConfig.cfg
Look for the line: seta image_cacheMegs "20"
The 20 is how many mb doom allocates of your systems memory to aid your video card. I have 1 GB so I allocated 512 to aid mine . find the file and right click on it and open it with text pad change the 20 to whatever your system can spare( leave at least 512 free for doom to run) close the file and bam you just added $100 to the performance of your card. Hope this helps someone

I installed Doom 3 on my pc and when i went to play it, it had an error before the game even started! It says that my video card doesn't support it! I have a 16MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra video card.. thats whacked cuz it won't even take me to the menu screen for the game.. that pisses me off so bad!! What do i do?

Well, i don't know what to think. I see abunch of completely different views...but im leaning towards DataBug. I'll probably go for the '2nd best' card or the best for a deal. good day.

Dumb question...but they usually are easier to answer....will Doom 3 run very well on a Radeon 9550 256MB DDR AGP Graphics card???? Thanks.....

It is possible for Doom 3 to run OK on older hardware for several reasons, so not all people making these claims are liars. Doom 3 finds out what hardware you have and tailors the game settings to your hardware. This goes beyond what you can control with the graphics settings. Therefore, even if you have selected high settings, Doom 3 may be effectively playing at lower settings due to reconfiguring its internal settings based on your hardware. Another reason is that many games have different code paths for different video cards. The person who was talking about versions of DirectX hinted at this. Doom 3 could have a highly simplified rendering process for an older card since it knows the older card can't support certain features. A more complex rendering process would be used for current cards. Therefore, it is possible to get higher FPS with an older card than with a newer card because the older card is not rendering as many features as the new one.

Personally, the game seems to play OK for me (20-60 fps) with my GeForce4 Ti 4200 (64MB) and my Athlon XP 2200+ at 800x600 and low detail. There has not been any lagging or choppiness that I have noticed. Still, I would like better game play, and I sympathize with those who feel that new games are too reliant on state-of-the-art, expensive hardware.

About the frames-per-second argument I think that, although the movie and television industries have deemed it suitable to provide content at roughly 25-30 fps, that is not a limit on what humans can perceive. It would be very difficult to find out exactly what the upper limit is, since our eyes and brain are phenomenal things. How would you test their capacity? (Although, I believe brain/nerve activity happens on the order of milliseconds.) The only concrete thing to be said was said above, but I will echo it for emphasis. AC electricity operates at 60 Hz, and it seems the whole of the U.S. is fine with that. If you notice that your light bulbs flicker and it _bothers_ you, than you would need more than 60 fps in a game, otherwise you should be fine playing a game capped at 60 fps.

hey hey i got an x800 so im happy kinda....i think people should worry about ram cause graphics are graphics. I used to have a x550 now i got an x800 (Radeon), and there isnt much difference. I say buy yourself as little as 150 as high as 300 dollars worth of ram. You will be playing Doom with eyes wide open.

I got Doom 3 for Christmas, and well into 2005 I am still unable to play it. I have an Athlon 1600+ processor, 640 MB RAM but it says my video card is 'not compatible'. I know i have to buy a new video card, but what one? Some people my specs are sufficient and any video card will do, but others say with a pc like mine i have no hope of playing the game. Any help?

lol u guys complain to much im running a p4 3ghz 1gig ram 9800pro @ 437/380 and doom 3 runs ass smooth as a babies ass i got my 9800 pro for 450$(NZ) which is about 250$us slapped on a arctic cooler and no probs with any game. also running hf2 at high smooth as hell

1)Buy as much RAM as you can.
2)Buy a video card from the list of video cards on the box of DOOM3 ( i suggest x550 or higher ).
3)If your comp can't handle a card from the box, give up or buy new comp (that is...if you NEED to play DOOM3)
4) Do not let the fact that the big bad ass cards cost way too much get to you, you are only human and there is still hope for you.


Hopefully people reading this forum don't have anymore problems...because it's all a marketing scam.

..l..___(>_<)___..l..

pls have fun with your lives computer or no computer.

Well, I spent the money, I picked up a new NVIDIA GForceFX 5700 Ultra with 128 MB DDR3 RAM. Needless to say I can now play Doom how I want to. Been playing at 800x600 at High Resolution. :)

Gavin

well here are my system specs and i cant get above 20 fps so can some1 please help me


2.4ghz, 512 ddr ram , 200gb hard drive, Ati@radeon 9200 - 128 video memory

I play doom 3 online, my PC is a 2.66 ghz p4, 512 meg ddr ram, radeon 9600 pro 128 meg, it wont run high quality without lagging badly, but the medium is fine, altho online i tend to use low tbh! But ur PC is faster than mine, i wuld have thought it could handle high tbh, but dont listen the games recomended, try it for yourself m8!

it dont work on single player i get 60fps without any problems online i get less than 20

I've got a 486 SX 33 with 16MB of RAM and a SIS 1MB graphics card and it runs Doom III at Ultra quality no problems. Jerks a bit when loading up large amounts of textures. Kicks arse over my old system. GeForce 6800 Ultra, who needs one of those!?

Okay, I'm fibbing sorry. Okay something a little more useful - If you want to increase performance in single player mode and you have a slightly lower grade system, you can increase overall performance by unRAR'ing the PK files contnets to the 'base' dir in the Doom iii folder. F*cks up on multiplayer sometimes but will improve single player mode.

a 9600tx 128mb can play it 30fps at 1024x768 high quality all advance settings apart from aa on. on a 1.6 (willamette pentium4 400fsb,256mb cache)

fx5200 is a poor card dont buy one. no processor can make it better

doom3 is scary!

i play halflife2 myself. fx5200 is ok for halflife2 .. but not doom3

how can i improve it on mutiplayer then with a Radeon 9200 i can get 45/60 fps on single player on mutiplayer less than 20

Get this guys, I have an AMD 64 2 Ghz with a Geforce 4 MX 64 mb card, it runs doom 3 only in low low mode, with crappy frame rate, like 20 I think. But now hear this, I see a lot of you folks comparing Half Life 2 to Doom 3, well HL2 runs like gang busters in Highest quality. I mean I seriously jacked up the graphics on it and it runs as smooth as a freshly waxed basketball court. So WTF? What am I doing wrong with D3?

send the game Doom 3or1 or2let me try it to see if it really sucks.

This game is really wierd I read all your guys postings and im surprised that I can run this game. I have two systems and played the game on both. one is a 1.5Ghz AMD with 512 ram with a Radeon 9200 and I can play it on medium with no chop at all smooth as ice. and the second is a HP media center with a 200Gb SATA hard drive with a X300 PCI 128mb express radeon with 512 ram and I can play the game at ultra high quality and is one of the most smooth game I have ever played... this is why pc gaming sucks you need to shell out so much money for one fucking game when you could probably go by a Xbox for 200$ that will run the game amazing and you know as soon as you put the game in it will work no patches required........

Ok does the word bios mean anything????? so many ppl leave out stuff like this. cas ram settings it really does't matter if you have a P4 AMD64 an 8086 or a bbc who gives a rats it's still quicker to ask a bbc what 2+2 is cos it loads faster. Anyway go into you're bios set your cas latency to 2 and the other to mem ops to 2 the one thats 7 to 8 and stick some more power through those memory sticks 2.6 isn't enough . set agp apeture to max usually 256 or 512 oh and if it's availble change the agp from 66v to 70v on a gforce 4 this seems this increase the speed.

S_R

Is it me or does that doom marine look like Terminator star and xfile actor Robert Patrick hey theres supposed to be a film down the line. The above advice can be confirmed at toms hardware guide. oh and turn off spread spectrum in the bios this is a wasted feature most ppl leave it set to 50% you're box should already seem faster and no this isn't clocking.

As usual things fall a little short around here..

Guess we've all been had anybody for Duke nukem forever or Doom 4?

The 9200 Radeon is a real power eater next to Prescotts 93W Hyperthreading Chips it's like Blair and Prescott come to think about it power hungry with not much else to offer

a 550W PSU is recommended

Or

stay with the gforce 4200ti the 4404 drivers from creative play doom smoothly the gforce 5's have memmory addressing problems with most games.

GTD

Ok if you own a 128mb Ati radeon 9200 it's likely that the manufacturer has stuck the heatsink on using a supposed thermo pad. Goddess only knows how it's supposed to let the heat dissipate being that thick. I recommend removing the heatsink pad then use some silicon gell on the chip put the heatsink back on now minus the pad and add a fan which can plug into the mobo this seems to reduce the freezing situation that happens when not even playing games and just going into windows.

Never buy 3rd gen or sparkle cards!

Doom3 is like remero nough said. at least the guys at valve bring out software that works Even Wolfenstein chokes on my P4 2.8 w/ 1GB DDR 128mb Gforce 4

ID is holy bit like MS

I have an X800 Pro and Doom 3 chokes it tremendously. I will be going through the corridors at 1024x768, high quality, 2x AA at like 40 fps, then I will get to a room with many imps, and my framerate will drop to like 20. In the hell level, I am steady in the single digits, especailly when fighting the boss. Keep in mind I am running an Athlon 64 processor. There is nothing wrong with my setup or software configuration. The problem is I'm running an Nvidia made game on an ATI card. Man, ATI sucks!

Sorry to hear about everyone's problem with Doom 3. Sounds like the game was programmed badly( as in script commands; to direct the game to load render objects, sprites,bitmaps,etc.) Valve software's HL2 runs off a unified code. I've never seen it but Valve's programming team has it copyrighted. So they can sue anyone who tries to use it. Yeah game industries are a scam. People just need to learn to program better games for a wider optimization spectrum. But maybe one day they'll figure it out. Sounds like 20 fps is limiting the game a bit. Overclocking does help a bit, but it's all on how the game loads everything up that really matters. Most of you guys are right on optimizing because the game takes alot of time to render all the objects, the newer games aren't worth it.

Hey guys, everyone knows DOOM3 is the Baddest most intense graphics around! You also have to have the baddest computer to run it too! DUH!!!!!!! Yeah I have too much money in my computer just to run doom, but I will tell you what, watching doom 3 scream on ultra quality is the bomb. Nothing else matches it. It is like watching a High Definition movie, but you get to be the star. So all you pussies complaining about doom3 cuz your computer sucks, go to college get a better job and buy a bad ass computer.

Geforce FX will run ARB2 path slowly... However, it will run
NV40 path fast. So, if you can figure how to set config file to
run NV40 path... If you figure how, let me know....

GF6800 8x & 16x FSAA are mixed-mode supersampling
and will kill framerates...

those who can't run doom3 on der pcs buy a x-box and buy da doom3 game it works perfectly oh and by da way i really can't believe y u guys jus didn go 2 da vid card website and go to games compatability to see if it works i went to mine and says it will have a low framerate but if i set it to low and turn advanced options all of or no then i shall work it igght and it does and omg its a 32mb intel 82865G card hahahah soo wat if it works crap and have da texturess washed out still works compared to da cards yall have and its da truth!!!

guys u wouldnt believe this but DOOM3 actually looks a lot better (though slower) on my NForce2 with built in GF4MX card as compared to an external GF5200 (I run all my test without antialising)
I guess the soft pixels being used in Doom3 are far better than the Pixel shading capabilities offered by the card.

i play doom 3 on my ATI X800XT with my 3.6GHz , 2024MB Ram , 300GB hard drive runs like a monster

i have a ati rage xl 8mb pci video card i havent tried doom 3 but i want suggestions whether the game will run or no

doom 3 is better than Half-Life 2 though!

People: It's perfectly possible to run Doom 3 with just about any graphics card faster than an ATI Radeon 7500. The thing is, there are 3 main classes of card currently available - any ATI card older than the Radeon 8500 or the Nvidia GeforceFX series can only support DirectX 7 effects, meaning that Doom 3 will run just fine on most of them, provided you have a capable processor - however it won't render any of the incredible lighting effects which were what made the game so revolutionary in the first place. It'll probably end up looking like a slightly classier version of the original Unreal Tournament.

The next class of hardware is the DirectX 8 hardware, being the ATI Radeon 8500 - ATI Radeon 9200 and nominally the GeforceFX 5xxx series. These cards will look good on the game, but will generally run terribly well because of all the high quality lighting effects the card has to render, and these cards are getting quite dated. For example, Halflife 2 runs much better on a Radeon 7500 than on a Radeon 9200, simply because it doesn't need to render as many effects - of course it doesn't look anywhere near as good.

The third class of hardware is the current generation, the DirectX 9 level card, being any of the Geforce 6xxx series or ATI Radeon 9600 or faster. These cards all offer the same image quality, but of course, a more expensive card gets you smoother gameplay.

Note that the DirectX level of a card has nothing to do with the in-game graphics settings you choose. Even if you can run Doom 3 on Ultra quality with a Geforce4 Ti, it won't look as good as a Radeon 9600 on low quality, because none of the amazing pixel shader effects or stencil shadows are rendered.

So, I realise that many people don't really mind how good the game looks and just want to play it - the good news is that if you have a decent processor - say 2.0Ghz Pentium 4 or equivalent - you can turn the graphics settings down and you'll get playable performance on almost any card.

If you want to experience the most incredible thing about this game, the graphics, then you will want a DirectX 9 level card, and if you want to run it on anything above medium then you are looking at buying a Geforce 6600 or an ATI Radeon 9800 or higher. Sorry, but you just have to spend the money to get the most out of the latest games. In general, a Radeon 9200 or GeforceFX 5200 just won't get you good performance on any decent image quality setting. No matter how much RAM or how fast a processor you have, it can never fully make up for a slow graphics card, trust me.

I know, the game industry has really neglected people who perhaps don't know so much about computer hardware, and they have really been left to fend for themselves - it can be quite daunting, deciding what hardware to get. It's definitely something for the industry to improve on in general.

And to respond to those who said that John Carmack hasn't done a good job optimising this game - try watching it being played on the best hardware at a high image quality, and you will see the incredibly dynamic lighting effects that haven't been seen on any other game so far. John Carmack can really only be described as a genius for getting such advanced graphical effects to run on any modern hardware, let alone some of the lower end stuff.

In short, everybody always knew Doom 3 was going to need an incredibly fast computer to play on, and if you want to experience then you have to spend the money. If you want another modern game without upgrading, try Half-life 2 - it's optimised for low end systems far better and should run fine on just about any system with more than a 32MB graphics card and a 1ghz processor or faster. It's also a great game, and many people would even say better.

Hope that cleared some stuff up for you.

can i run doom 3 on nvidia geforce fx 5200 with 128 mb memory with 256 mb ram

Yea, it'd run, but you won't be able to crank the graphics settings up too high, seeing as the FX5200 is a budget graphics card - it is a DirectX 9 level card however, so it'll still look very nice even on low quality.
As for the RAM, 256MB should be able to play it, but if you want smoot gameplay you'll want to upgrade to 512MB, or even 1024MB. This would decrease loading times and also cut down on jerks when you open doors etc.

The best way to try it is now you guys go to buy a 512md video card which just arrived in the market for 800 dollars or so if you are a real serious gamer and end this diccusion.

Who let the kiddy into the forum Pentium 450mhz eh! (Msg further up the line)
128 ram
Voodoo3 32mb (with opengl)
Soundblaster Live with Dom3 <-note mistake) I doubt it Maybe old games like max Payne would work with this combo but a Voodoo3 would melt before it looked at a pixel shader. Hmm lets see Buy an Electric Guitar or waste an insane amount more on my PC. Chicks don't dig PCs guys

Oh shrite the specs

64Bit 2800+
on 754/939 combo board (not Dual sadly)
1GB Mem
160GB ATA Serial HDD
Gforce 4 128MB
DVD 16X +/- RW
curently using XP 32bit downloading 64bit as I write this.

Sold Doom3 since building this PC but I'm will be trying HL2 out.

If it really matters Halo 2 at 640 x 480 will run at 50fps with a radeon 9200 if you really are desprate.

can i run hl2
system specs:
P4, 1.8 ghz
256 mb ram
geforce fx 5200 128 mb memory.

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PLEASE ANSWER SOON

Hi I just purchased DOOM 3 and my specs are: 4.2GHz , 2024MB DDR RAM , 400GB HARD DRIVE , ATI RADEON X800XT It is Superb graphics never seen anything like it if you have msn add me on g.whelband1@hotmail.com

MY PC (P4 3Ghz HT, 1024mb RAM 333, Geforce 6600GT, 120 Gb HDD) runs Doom 3 at High, 1024x768 with 2xAA Very smoothly. Crank up AA to 4x and things slow down slightly, but 8X onwards it crumbles....poor programming if you ask me

I have a Dual 2800+ athlonxp asus mobo a7m266d ,2 gig Ram and Radeon 9800pro 256mb.
I run DOOM 3 in Ultra @ 1024x768
65 fps and never drops below 35 fps,
Usually in 50 - 65 range.
This of course is while fraps is running and all my back ground apps.
I also Notice DOOM 3 is Multi thread as it uses both cpu's but the code could be improved.

I could encode a video while playing doom3 in Ultra with no frame drop.
He He Haw Haw Haw Hee :)

We Need More Multi Thread Games !

Any one Running anything older or slower than a p4 2.4 should be playing checker on yahoo not Doom 3...
Whats it take for you procrastinators to update and stop complaining.

THERES NOTHING LIKE A DUAL>
THERES NOTHING LIKE A DUAL>
THERES NOTHING LIKE A DUAL>

While your waiting, I am Doing.

I've ditched the P4 Prescott Intel are back on my bad list along with Radeon

Prescott was like Labours Prescott.

The following plays properly doom3 with patch 1.3

Asrock board 754/939
Athlon64 2800+ skt 754
1.5GB mem PC 3200
160GB SATA drive
Asus Geforce Fx5200 256MB
550W psu
XP64 trial from Msoft

This plays Doom3 no problems with the FPS
Plays in high 1024x768 with all features

the following won't
2.8GHz Prescott on S848p Chaintech board
768 DDR 333
Ide 120GB HD
400W psu
Radeon (wide boy) 9200SE 128

Will I need a mortgage for Doom4????

Actually Doom 3 will play on most systems with mipmapping turned off although this removes most of the best features and you would have to ask why would you want to play it like that

Also there is some strange rumour D3 doesn't work well with surround sound.

Dual I'd drinks to that

thats wierd man because right now im running doom 3on a Fx5700LE PCI not PCI express, regular old PCI. and the little button thing for doom3 to set the quality put it on medium 640x480 and i have a Celeron 2.70GHz thats wierd man..

Looking at the rats specs it's his Graphics card not the PC.

Continue

The FX5700LE is much better then the FX5200 even on PCI it's possible to get an FX5200 new for £30

I took out a morgage and bought a Geforce 6600 ultra which runs Doom3 maxed out.

I have found a slightly cheaper alternative for anyone with cash flow problems

Buy a Radeon 9550 from a carboot sale for £5 most people will have bought one by mistake tis a mid range budget card

then go to techpowerup com/bios/ look at the memmory on your card i.e Hynix or Samsung 5.0 etc.

locate a bios that matches the 9550 this card is a budget version of the 9600 I have done lots of testing this cards locked against clocking etc because it will do better.

Find your memmory follow the on screen info
it is handy to have a pci graphics card around just like boot blocking you can restore a duff Graphics card bios.

Mr T

I take no liability or responsibility for the above nor does the site do it if you really can't afford a better card.

I have tried the bios windows now says it's a Radeon 9600, There seems to be clocking options anyone tested em!

Tanx

Hiya,

I can now run Doom 3 the demo (S.A.D) after flashing my Radeon card, there's some graphics brakeup prehaps the demo is unstable other games like Far Cry and Medal of Honour work.

Should there be smoke pouring out of my pc Hehehe

A! O dang crud crud crud!!!

Seriously,
Winning Eleven (PS2) Rules !

anagram........Playstation = I plan to stay

Xbox 360 non backwards compat hahaha
PS3 cos they treat gamers the right way

chilled cpu

After countless attempts the Radeon 9550 now works at 450clk 276mem I used Radclocker

Does anyone have an Asus Geforce Fx5200 256M V9520/TD/P/256M bios

I had a small mishap and can only get the 128MB version, Asus will not provide one

I have a tool that can backup graphics card bioses it's about 700k

please send to Scorpion1610@email.com

I need this card as my Geforce 2 Ti doesn't play Doom3 (For obviouse reasons)

Thanks
Pete

Wait a moe, Forget it the Core and mem are only 250 the FX5200 is pants

hi,i have athlon 64 3200+ and one video card 5900 with 128 mbyte and 1gb ram.doom3 play very well at 1024x768+high quality.

HI,i have an athlon 64 3200+at running 2.0 and my video card 5900 with 128 mbyte and 1gb of ram and doom3 play very well!!! at 1024x768+high quality.

G?? ?? ??????S??T??S ?? DOOM3 ?????? ?? ????S ???????S??? ???? ??????G?S?? ATHLON 2600+ ??? ????? G??F??O? 5700 ULTRA WITH LEAST 128 MBYTE ??? ????? LEAST 512MBYTE

don't need you for high quality 256mbyte video card but least 128 mbyte

HI,I HAVE AN ATHLON 64 3200+ AT RUNNING 2.0GHZ AND VIDEO CARD 5900 WITH 128 MBYTE AND 1GB OF RAM.AND NVIDIA DRIVERS 77.72.AND PLAY DOOM3 AT 1024X768+HIGH QUALITY WITH 4X ANTIALAISING THE DOOM3 PLAY VERY WELL!.THE GAME SEEMS TO OK(25-60)FPS

least 512mbyte for games

doom3 is a bored game.i have an athlon 64 3200+ and i have 1gb of ram and i have a 5900 with 128 mbyte.i have a top system and play doom3 veryyyy well!!! at 1024x768+high quality.the seems to ok(20-50)fps.for the need least 512mbyte of ram.you have least 5700 ultra+for doom3.doom3 sucks.

I have an athlon 64 3200+ and my video card 5900 with 128mb and 1gb of ram and play doom3 at 1024x768+ultra quality with 2x AA.doom3 play wery well!.don't need you 256mb video card for ultra quality!.need you least 5700+ for doom3.And need you least 512mb for all new games.the video cards with 256mb need only for hi res.the seems to ok is(18-60)FPS.remember.

Remember don't need you 256mb video card.And remember video cards with 256mb need only high resolution up to 1280x1024.thanks

I have just splashed out on an AMD 64 SKT 939 4800+ with PCI Express NX7800GTX which gets 14000 with the fram limiter on in 3DMarks 05
2GB of DDR 4200
It pays to work for AMD

Doom is a waste of time for this card there are better games coming out.

Will Doom 3 run on an onboard graphic like Intel Graphic Media Accelarator 900 with memory share 224 mb?

A combo of PCI Express socket 939 and 3GB of mem will run with no strings Attached

$250 graphics card is required
£130 graphics card is required

using PCI Express with two ATI X850's or two Nvidia cards is what's really required to run this game

Those who played Doom the original back in 1994 will remeber that a high spec 386 could play doom, but it was designed for a DX2/66 with 8MB of ram.

AMD is the best to go for but hey, everyone has there own opinions.

Forget trying onboard graphics for games

1. It takes a chunk of system memory
2. onboard is designed mainly for companys that want to run CAD packages.

other info

CGI have a trailor of the Doom film the character Sarge is played by none other then WWE's Rock from Walking tall and welcome to the jungle (as it's known here)

You kids all need to GET A JOB.

You're all moaning about how a new game won't run on an old computer, well my first computer was an original MSDOS PC (8088, 8 bit) with 128kb Ram.

The best game I had was blackjack with ascii graphics. Then I bought an XT (8086 woohoo! 16bit!)

I've watched technology get faster and faster and the price goes down not up. This is all about progress, I spent $400 on a 10MB hard drive, and over $1000 on a 486 dx2/66. So before you come complaining about how you can't run the newest games, because you can't afford the latest graphics card. Just remember, there will always be something better just round the corner.

Just work for your cash and get DOOM3 when it's cheaper for a 6800GT...I don't know what all the bitching is all about. I'll bet in 12 months you'll all be saying how great doom3 is now you can run it on a $100 card.

A64-3200+@2.2Ghz, 512MBx2 OCZ dual channel, XFX 6800GT, 2x300GB MaxtorSATA, Abit Av8.
Runs doom3 just fine thanks very much!

get a job losers!

Anyone managed to install and run Doom 3 on Win XP Pro 64-bit, using an Intel chip? I cant get the damned thing to work. Tried a few patches but no joy yet.

Rig: P4 820-D Dual Core, GeForce 6600GT 128Mb and 1Gb DDR2 RAM

Todos me pueden chupar bien la píja, sobre todo ATI y los putos que compilaron el DOOM 3 para que ande +20 FPS mas rapidos en placas NVIDIA :@

i have a Radeon X300 SE i want to know if Doom 3 will play on it i have all the other specs just im not sure about that

Doom 3 can be run on 32 megabyte GeForce cards.

That is a fact. I suggest the braggers and insulting kids around here should email id Software to confirm this, instead of swearing at and insulting everyone.

Incidentally @ Gavin, you should be able to run Doom 3 just dandy on that card AT THE APPROPRIATE QUALITY SETTINGS.

It's an FX 5200. If you want to keep to a low budget, *and* buy brand new from a retail outlet, you'll get what you got, which is a very cheap card. Borderline non-gaming card.

If you want things on a budget, and you want to play recent games well, you can't just go into a retailer and buy one of their stock bottom-of-the-line offerings, you have to bargain hunt.

And if you don't want to bargain-hunt, or can't be bothered?

Well, my friend, increase your budget, or accept crappy performance.

If your having trouble running it on a system that should than clear ur registry and defrag ur drives. Often problems like this can effect game performance. Alsodon't try have the settings to high.
It is possible for older graphics cards to handle games as my GeForce 2 mx 64mb can run Pariah (laggy but playable) and Call of Duty 2 (runs supprisingly good) and I've only got 256mb ram and Athlon 64 3000. I won't attempt doom 3 till I get an upgrade but Half Life 2 works alright on it.
I run antivirus and spyware scans and registry scans every day and my system runs like the day I got it. Do this and ur system can handle more.

Everyone has been complaining the last year over Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 and you know what don't complain ID makes sure their games aren't potimized. When they are capped it allows worse playing because it reads wrong thinking 60FPS oh you better have an awesome card to reach 60FPS. I can't play it on my comp although this year I'm getting a bunch of new parts right now I have a P4 at 2.0GHZ and a GeForce 4 MX440 with 256MB of RAM and a 40GB Hard Drive. Final Fantasy 11 is also hard to run but many don't acknowledge it because it is an MMO. However, UBISoft allowed gamers with Far Cry to tweak it however they want. I can run it on Medium with lighting and shadows toned down but it runs fine. My Dad's laptop has a Pentium M at 1.8GHz an 80GB HD, 1 Gig of RAM and a Mobility Radeon 9000. Far Cry can be run at Medium to High Setting without slow down. Now back to Doom 3 since it isn't optimized I can barely run it on Medium and the shadows are blocky. Now get this Quake 4 is slightly more optimized because I can run the lighting and shadows on low but Textures and World Detail on Medium with Bump Mapping at 800x600 and it runs great. Others think FEAR is a draw back but is simply a land mark in optimization. Since the settings are categorized all my CPU settings are almost all on High the Physics and Water Detail are on Medium. 2xAA with Lighting and Shadows on low with Textures on Medium and Low and it looks good and runs great.

If your really tired of not being able to run things go buy Quake 3 and get Call of Duty 2 which is easy to run and if you can't even run Quake 3 well go piss on a tree you lonely moneyless geek. (I am a moneyless geek since I am 12)

All of you folks, listen to this. I know that 95% of you, are only gamers between the age of 18-30, and the only knowledge you have on computers is dependable on pc-magazines and stuff. My job is Software Engineer (aka IT Expert), and i believe i know better than you:

My system is:
P4 1.8GHz
512 DDR Ram
EliteGroup MOBO
GeForce 2 Ti 64 MB DDR (4x)
80Gb Western Digital
In low quality, it runs B E A UTIFUL!!!!!
So, give up on GeForces6800 and f****ck, and concentrate on a video card that will always (and i mean ALWAYS) be enough for you. Because the way things are going now, it seems that every 10 months you will have to buy a new card!!!!

The optimal settin will choose the settin it will run flawlessly on, you can select to run it on higher settings and unless you put it on mega high res i bet it will run high quility fine. AND you dont have to have a very powerfull card to run doom, my nvid 6600 128mb is recommended by ID software to play the game, so forget all the rumours of havin to run a 256mb super card to get satisfaction out of this great game!

yeah to whuever said good riddance it has 2 d's. doom 3 runs fine on my machine on high graphics. im running a Radeon X1800 pro on a 3 Ghz comp and its all good. all this putting doom 3 down, its a fun game!

System # 1

AMD64 3000 2.0Ghz 754
1024MB GEIL DDR400
Gigabyte K8NS Pro Mobo
Gigabyte 6800GT 256MB AGP8X
(runs Doom 3 1280X1024 Medium perfict, High nearly perfect) I plan to upgrade soon to a AMD 60 3700 Clawhammer 2.4Ghz and a 7800GTX AGP 8X Video Card. Best Buy Has Them for $350. I thought they were only PCI-X.

System # 2

PIII 1.0Ghz 133FSB Socket 370
256MB DDR266
Chaintech Mobo
Xtasy GF2 TI 64MB AGP

(runs Doom 3 smooth at 800X600 Low and depends on the day sometimes plays fine on Medium quality) This computer always impresses me for what it is.

You guys are retarded, I got my nVIDIA Riva TNT2 ULTRA 32Mb (Diamond Viper V770), Adjusted at 128Mb to play doom 3, and my system specs are: QDI Motherboard 865Pe, SoundBlaster Live! 24-Bit 2048Mb ram, 3.34Ghz/533Fsb P4 Northwood no HT. Windows XP Professonal 2600 Ver.5.148. It played DooM3 very well. No cracks or glitches in the monitor. It also came with the fan on the GPU, So I ended up poping the original heatsink and putting a new and bigger fanned heatsink on it. it has a small GPU and it works soo fast. This card was orignally for the Intel Pentium III system. I made a good use out of this graphics card. I only got it for $10.00 (New O.E.M) from tigerdirect. Theres the link on that graphics card, and also look at the RAM Dac's. you would be quite surprised how I got 128mb out of them.

www.dansdata.com/images/TNT2s/S320ii320.jpg

nVIDIA Driver- 77.75

GPU-> 360Mhz, Ram-> 260Mhz.

ALL I CAN SAY IS DOOM3 SUCKS. PLS DONT SPEND MONEY ON THAT TRAS PEOPLE!

I haven't tried doom yet cuz im on vacation, and I have a Compaq Evo D300v~ Pentium4 @ 1.6ghz, 512mb of DDR ram, and soon to install Geforce4 MX440-8X card. Will that run doom smoothly?

doom is stupid dull game! HL2 the best!