New Doom 3 Tweak! 40% Performance Increase for ATI cards!!!

[IamTylerDurden]

I found a new tweak for ATI users! This one is even approved by Carmack!
It supposedly improves performance of Doom 3 on ATI cards by 40%!!!
NVidia users will lose performance with this tweak however...
I'm going to give this a shot tonight when I get home!

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14874

[[uGa] Saint]

gah... stupid work internet's blind, can't find the server... booo, try again when i get home i guess... im running d00m 3 on my ati 9600 xt and its smooth except for when doors open, then it just freaks for a second or two, then back to normal

[CajunTech]

I'm on an ATI 9600PRO, AthlonXP 2500+, 512MB PC hoping I can play Doom.
Will try the tweak out.

[LA_MERC_Captain_Obvious]

Cajun, you will be able to play it just fine. I have a P4 3ghz, 256mb ram, gf4ti4600 and it plays pretty dang good at medium setting on 800x600. although the load time between levels is roughly 3 minutes (due to not enough RAM). You should be able to go either high setting at 800x600 or medium setting at 1024x768

[[uGa] Saint]

I agree with CO, you'll be able to play just fine with pretty darn good graphics, altho sometimes i wish the graphics were like original doom so i wouldnt get as scared when crap jumped out at me, hehehe...

[roXet]

I've got a Athlon XP 2500 with 1GB ram and a 9600XT 256MB and I can run Doom3 very well. At 1024x768 (I think, may be 1280x1024) on the "high quality" setting.

I say I can run it pretty well, I havn't been able to play it much at night because it gives me nightmares. =(

[[uGa] Saint]

see, i want to get the whole creepyness factor, so i play it at night in the dark with the music up... which is why im making someone else play it with me so that i dont freak out, i already cant go down the stairs cuz of one of you talking about something jumping out and scaring the bejezuz outta ya... now whenever i see stairs i close one of my eyes and back as far away from the computer as possible so it wont scare me too bad, lol...

[LA_MERC_LaTech]

hahahahah....*bwak bwak!* Chicken!!!

[[uGa] Saint]

hey, at least im honest, haha

[LA_MERC_Spark]

link no worky 4 meh...8^(

[LA_MERC_Maverick]

link didnt work for me either, but try going to www.beyond3d.com/forum selecting search, and then doom 3, the first link will be the thread you need.

[CajunTech]

I doubt the game would scare me, but getting Tanya to play it on the other hand... haha

[[uGa] Saint]

i just got home and tried it, took a min, but it worked

a lot of people were noticing only 18% increases, not the 40% advertised, just an fyi

[LA_MERC_Maverick]

LOL! key word there saint was......INCREASES! w00t!

[IamTylerDurden]

I've got an Athlon 2100+ with 512 ram and a 9800xt.. I can play at 1024x768 on high and it plays SUPA smooth!!!! Wooohoo!

[IamTylerDurden]

After the tweak though, I did not notice a difference in the timedemo =( but that game runs great so thats ok... by the way.. im gonna make a new thread so we can see system specs with their time demo scores.... so .. hit that now...

[LA_MERC_Spark]

I got a P4 2.4 w/ a gig O ram and a 9600xt... thing runs pretty good, but it gets a liitle jumpy in the reactor room .... I'ma try this tweak out when I get home and see if I can get some improvement..