Doom Demo Crashes (pls help if you can)

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4 total messages Started by Phil De Groot Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:44

#92967

Author: Phil De Groot
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:44

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Just started playing the downloadable Doom 3 demo. I've got a P4 1.7ghz with
512 meg ram and an ATI Raedeon 9550SE 128meg video card. When I get on the
first elevator at the start of the game (after following the robot guide),
the games freezes.

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Doom Demo Crashes (pls help if you can)

#92969

Author: M.W.H
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:15

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See if the troubleshooting sections at < 
http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FAQ_Instability.htm > help. Tweaking 
the setting 'image_cacheMinK' can cause problems, see the suggestions at < 
http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FPSVisuals.htm >

HTH

M.W.H

"Phil De Groot" <phildegroot@rogers.com> wrote in message 
news:L-Cdnb8KpL7GnM3fRVn-vQ@rogers.com...
> Just started playing the downloadable Doom 3 demo. I've got a P4 1.7ghz 
> with
> 512 meg ram and an ATI Raedeon 9550SE 128meg video card. When I get on the
> first elevator at the start of the game (after following the robot guide),
> the games freezes.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>

Re: Doom Demo Crashes (pls help if you can)

#92970

Author: Phil De Groot
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:47

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Thanks, I'll try
"M.W.H" <mapson_no@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:XEU3e.3189$G8.2312@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> See if the troubleshooting sections at <
> http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FAQ_Instability.htm > help. Tweaking
> the setting 'image_cacheMinK' can cause problems, see the suggestions at <
> http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FPSVisuals.htm >
>
> HTH
>
> M.W.H
>
> "Phil De Groot" <phildegroot@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:L-Cdnb8KpL7GnM3fRVn-vQ@rogers.com...
> > Just started playing the downloadable Doom 3 demo. I've got a P4 1.7ghz
> > with
> > 512 meg ram and an ATI Raedeon 9550SE 128meg video card. When I get on
the
> > first elevator at the start of the game (after following the robot
guide),
> > the games freezes.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >
>
>

Re: Doom Demo Crashes (pls help if you can)

#92968

Author: SnoopJeDi
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:04

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Phil De Groot wasted my time on 4/3/2005 10:44 AM with the following:
> Just started playing the downloadable Doom 3 demo. I've got a P4 1.7ghz with
> 512 meg ram and an ATI Raedeon 9550SE 128meg video card. When I get on the
> first elevator at the start of the game (after following the robot guide),
> the games freezes.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> 

I recommend using the Omegadrivers on any Radeon chipset (mobility 
included), because in my experience, some of them tend to freeze up 
after x minutes in game (mine was about 10 minutes, and it required a 
full reboot)

You can get them here:

http://www.omegadrivers.net

Also, your CPU is above the minimum requirements by just a scraping of 
the nuts, so you can't expect too much from it.

You can read various tweak guides online (not sure if you can use all of 
the settings in the demo, but who knows?!), and I highly recommend this one:

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

Which gives you a complete and very thorough look at all the settings 
in-game, for best performance and image quality.

-- 
-SnoopJeDi

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