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"BitchingHamster" <BitchingHamster@zeroping.com> wrote in message
news:Xns953DA2070CA4BBlueHampster@204.127.199.17...
>
> Where is the 'Turn on the real goddamn lighting physics' option so I can
> see where the fuck I am?  In my universe, light bounces and scatters off
> surfaces, so that three inches behind a light source isn't TOTALLY FUCKING
> PITCH BLACK.  Why did the lame ass developers at ID copy the lame ass
> lighting from Splinter Cell?  At least Splinter Cell has unique gameplay,
> but in the real world LIGHT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY.  Don't believe me?  Why
> don't you and one of your geek friends, if you have a friend, go into a
> warehouse at night with some of the lights on, stand in the light and have
> one of your friends stand 10 or 20 feet away in the shadows.  If you are
> living in my universe and aren't Stevie Wonder you will not fail to see
> him.  Then do me a favor and send a fucking photo of this to the id geeks
> so they can fix their goddamn game.  (and yes I'm pissed that I payed 50
> bucks for this crap)

I have the same problem.  Everything is ok up until when the security guard
says "collect your weapons and armour from the cabinet".  So I collect my
weapon and pistol, then a few seconds later the screen freezes for about 20
to 30 seconds.  When things start moving again, ALL I can see are things
that have their own light like the neon strips and the monitor screens by
the doors, everything else is PITCH BLACK, the flashlight doesn't light
anything up, I have the brightness at maximum.  This happens everytime.

One time the machine crashed and rebooted a few seconds into where it
freezes.  I have error reporting turned on, the error was sent to microsoft
and their answer was that this is a KNOWN issue with Windows XP and that
they are working on fixing it.  I am hoping SP2 will fix it.  This doesn't
just happen with Doom 3, ALL my other 3D games freeze like this (they don't
go dark though), they periodically freeze for about 20 to 30 seconds then
start moving again, Prince Of Persia Sands Of Time, Colin Mcae 4, Max Payne
2, Mafia...

Don't tell me this is an overheat problem with the graphics card, all my
fans are in full working order.

I saw somewhere this is an issue with some nVidia cards and Athlon CPUs.  I
have all the latest drivers installed including motherboard chipset drivers
but I have also tried backdating to all versions, they all give the same
problem.

My system:
Windows XP Home SP1a
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600
512Mb RAM
AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1668GHz
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 5.1
Socket A motherboard, A7A266-E, ALiMaGiK 1 Chipset, DDR RAM / SDRAM

Cheers, Gaz.