doom 3 help required

[Robert Kennedy]

hello, i recently bought doom 3, i installed it onto my time laptop which
runs on an amd athlon 2600+ processor, 512mb ddr memory, 60 gig hard drive,
32mb ati radeon 320gp graphics card. i have direct x and everything but it
jerks like hell even on the very lowest setting with every option switched
off. i know that my graphics card is under the minimum required by 32mb but
surely it would run ok on my system with all the other things

is it that the graphics card is unsupported? would i be able to download
any drivers or updates which would at least let me play the game without it
jerking all the time.

another thing which is interesting is that my uncle has a sony vaio with a
1.7gig intel 4 m processor, 512mb ddr memory and also a 32mb graphics card
(not sure of brand) and he can run it fine on a relatively good setting.


is their anything at all i can do to get it to run smootly even if the
resolution of the game isnt very good or will i have to buy a whole new
computer?

thanks very much for the help

 

[Guest]

hello, i recently bought doom 3, i installed it onto my time laptop which
runs on an amd athlon 2600+ processor, 512mb ddr memory, 60 gig hard drive,
32mb ati radeon 320gp graphics card. i have direct x and everything but it
jerks like hell even on the very lowest setting with every option switched
off. i know that my graphics card is under the minimum required by 32mb but
surely it would run ok on my system with all the other things

is it that the graphics card is unsupported? would i be able to download
any drivers or updates which would at least let me play the game without it
jerking all the time.

another thing which is interesting is that my uncle has a sony vaio with a
1.7gig intel 4 m processor, 512mb ddr memory and also a 32mb graphics card
(not sure of brand) and he can run it fine on a relatively good setting.


is their anything at all i can do to get it to run smootly even if the
resolution of the game isnt very good or will i have to buy a whole new
computer?

thanks very much for the help

Hea I had the same problem. I have 512 and p4 2.6 with everything shut down. game was very jerky and I had the latest drivers from nvidia mx440. This game was very unplayable. I went and purchased a radeon 9800 pro video card and a 430 watt power supply. Now I can play this beautiful game. This game will not play with min req. Make upgrades or buy new. You will love this game. Very scary!.

 

[Paul Smith]

is their anything at all i can do to get it to run smootly even if the
resolution of the game isnt very good or will i have to buy a whole new
computer?

Well the graphics card is below the minimum requirements.

Like Matt said, upgrading is the only solution, a Radeon 9800 Pro would be a
good option price/performance wise.

Sticking in an extra 512MB of RAM will help too.

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[Guest]

You'd better use a Intel CPU

 

[David Anfinrud [MSFT]]

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[Robert Kennedy]

i kno that it is below minimum requirements but my uncles computer is the
same and he can run it without it jerking like hell


and i have a laptop so upgrading is impossible

 

[Ganesh]

You'd better use a Intel CPU
??!! what relation does it have here ..

 

[Ganesh]

Compatibility Fix for Windows XP SP2 and certain 256 MB video cards:
Microsoft has identified a potential incompatibility between Halo for PC,

..... what is the relation here..?

 

[KevinK]

Sorry, it's the video card.

I have a 2.6 P4, 1gig and had an older 64meg 2x(? might
be 1x) AGP ATI card.

The game was terrible. Couldn't get anywhere because of
the jerky frame rate even at the lowest setting.

Added a Nvidia 5700 w/256meg. 1 setting below max and it
screams.

KlK, MCSE