Unable to load level in Doom3

[Guest]

I am running Doom3 on Win XP Home Edition SP1 with Nvidia 5200 FX AGP 256 MB
card, Pentium-4 2.4 GHz, 1GB DDR RAM, 300W power supply. Have downloaded
latest driver from Nvidia site as well as DirectX 9.0b from Microsoft.

I am unable to load the level that should appear immediately after the ENPRO
level in Doom3. Does anybody have any solutions? Also, I have had level
loading problems right from the first level. Game repeatedly crashed and
returned to the desktop and I had to restart to play again.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Neil Dela Osa]

Random crashes are typically the result of heat, a driver issue or a problem
with the application itself.

1.) There's a 1.1 patch available for DOOM 3 that you might consider trying
if you haven't installed it yet.
2.) Check your settings in the game - resolution, detail settings,
anti-aliasing, ansitropic filtering. The FX 5200 isn't a high end part.
It's possible some in-game setting is causing you to crash.
3.) Did you apply any DOOM 3 performance or detail tweaks listed on the
Internet or gaming magazines? If so try undoing the DOOM3 enhancements and
see if the application behaves better.
4.) You might try installing the latest drivers for your videocard
(http://www.nvidia.com), motherboard chipset (http://www.intel.com) and
sound card.
5.) You could try turning off any unnecessary background applications like
virus scanners when playing the game. Run a good spyware program on your
system to make sure there are no applications stealing resources from your
system.
6.) It's unlikely, but possible, that a BIOS setting such as AGP 8x or AGP
fast writes may be causing problems. You could try disabling these settings
to see if it impacts your game's performance.
7.) Finally, DOOM 3 is a very resource intensive game. It's possible your
power supply may be too small for the demands of the game on your computer
but I don't think it's the cause of your problem because you'll usually see
a system reboot for power supply issues. Still 300 Watts is kind of light
these days. If you're running a RAID array w/ multiple optical drives it'd
be something to consider. I'd also suggest a bigger power supply if you
planned on upgrading to a high end graphics card (Radeon 9800 or better,
Geforce FX 5900 or better).