Can I get more out of my 1.4 athlon 1700

Macabre · August 8th, 2004, 11:27 AM

I can run doom fine, but it especially slows down when there is more than 3 moving objects being rendered. I know I need more ram. (I have 256) but I though I would have a better frame rate with my Radeon 9600xt. Would the ram actually make doom run smoother?

Wicked Anime Kid · August 8th, 2004, 12:50 PM

Create an autoexec.cfg file, put it in base and add these lines

set com_videoRam "128" <---- change to what u got
set r_displayRefresh "75"
set r_useOptimizedShadows "1"
set g_decals "0"
set g_showBrass "0"
set g_doublevision "0"
set image_anisotropy "2" <----- the lower the faster!

PersN · August 8th, 2004, 01:08 PM

well heres my two cents or three :\ ....the more ram the better...and doom3 needs 384mb of ram for a good performance..the end

jls23 · August 10th, 2004, 11:25 PM

Ram, harddrive space and cpu speed. Get 512mb of ram, about 100+ gigs of hard-drive space, and AT LEAST 1.8 Ghz of cpu speed, and doom will run fine, just fine. Trust me, I know, and your video card is slightly better than mine. Oh, and no V-Sync. It takes away about 7fps for no reason at all.

ARMYguy · August 11th, 2004, 04:57 PM

Using the v sync in the game is highly recommended as all it seems to do is take away the tearing effect, without losing fps. Keep it to app. controlled in the drivers. Especially because i have a 3.4 ghz comp oced to 3.57 plus a 6800 gt oced to ultra, i get mad tearing with v sync off. ID and others recommend turning it on in doom 3.

August 11th, 2004, 06:36 PM

My computer here has 512 Ram about 2.0 gighertz, and a nVidia Geforce 4/400 graphics card, but it still won't play which sucks. Oh well, I can still play it on my parents computer.

jls23 · August 11th, 2004, 08:19 PM

The Geforce 4 MX series is just a hyped up version of the Geforce 2, but the geforce 4 is still not very good. And V-Sync is only useable on machines that get too-good performances in games.

August 8th, 2004, 11:27 AM	#1
Macabre Commander Keen Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1	Can I get more out of my 1.4 athlon 1700 I can run doom fine, but it especially slows down when there is more than 3 moving objects being rendered. I know I need more ram. (I have 256) but I though I would have a better frame rate with my Radeon 9600xt. Would the ram actually make doom run smoother?

August 11th, 2004, 04:57 PM	#5
ARMYguy Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Cleveland Ohio Posts: 530	Using the v sync in the game is highly recommended as all it seems to do is take away the tearing effect, without losing fps. Keep it to app. controlled in the drivers. Especially because i have a 3.4 ghz comp oced to 3.57 plus a 6800 gt oced to ultra, i get mad tearing with v sync off. ID and others recommend turning it on in doom 3. __________________ Intel i7 2600K Sandy , Asus Maximus IV Extreme ROG board, 8Gb Corsair XMS3 @ 1600 mhz, eVGA GTX 480, RAID 0 Raptors, 750gb Seagate hd, 1 TB western Digital 64 mb cache

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August 8th, 2004, 12:50 PM	#2
Wicked Anime Kid Commander Keen Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: The Lowlands Posts: 3,135	Create an autoexec.cfg file, put it in base and add these lines set com_videoRam "128" <---- change to what u got set r_displayRefresh "75" set r_useOptimizedShadows "1" set g_decals "0" set g_showBrass "0" set g_doublevision "0" set image_anisotropy "2" <----- the lower the faster!

August 8th, 2004, 01:08 PM	#3
PersN Commander Keen Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 25	well heres my two cents or three :\ ....the more ram the better...and doom3 needs 384mb of ram for a good performance..the end

August 10th, 2004, 11:25 PM	#4
jls23 Commander Keen Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 1,087	Ram, harddrive space and cpu speed. Get 512mb of ram, about 100+ gigs of hard-drive space, and AT LEAST 1.8 Ghz of cpu speed, and doom will run fine, just fine. Trust me, I know, and your video card is slightly better than mine. Oh, and no V-Sync. It takes away about 7fps for no reason at all.

August 11th, 2004, 06:36 PM	#6
Palidinrocker Guest Posts: n/a	My computer here has 512 Ram about 2.0 gighertz, and a nVidia Geforce 4/400 graphics card, but it still won't play which sucks. Oh well, I can still play it on my parents computer.

August 11th, 2004, 08:19 PM	#7
jls23 Commander Keen Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 1,087	The Geforce 4 MX series is just a hyped up version of the Geforce 2, but the geforce 4 is still not very good. And V-Sync is only useable on machines that get too-good performances in games.

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