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On 8/5/2004 5:47 PM Robin S. brightened our day with:

>On the planet doom forums,
>
>http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/topic.asp?fid=5733&tid=1438663&p=1
>
>a poster recommends setting the "seta image_cacheMegs "xx"" to a higher
>number for better performance. I set it higher and didn't see any
>difference.
>
>However, the setting above it is "seta image_useCache "0"" Do I need to set
>this to "1" to use the cacheMegs setting? I tried setting it to "1" but the
>game crashes after trying to load menus on startup.
>
>My important specs are:
>Athlon 2500+
>Asus A7V8X-X mobo
>768MB PC2700 DDR RAM
>Sapphire Radeon 9200 Pro 128MB 4.9 beta cat drivers
>
>I'm getting a solid 15fps for demo1 at 800x600 resolution and this does not
>change when I change any settings other than the resolution. I adjusted the
>cacheMegs and it benchmarked the same 15fps.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Regards,
>
>Robin
>
>
>  
>
If you read through the forum post you probably would have found your 
answer.

This is the tweak,
seta image_useCache "1"
seta image_cacheMegs "384" // (half your RAM)
seta image_cacheMinK "65536" //a big enough value otherwise the first 
setting will crash Doom3

This tweak will not improve FPS, but may remove some of the stuttering 
when loading new areas.
With your video card you should probably run at 640x480 with low quality 
settings.

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