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Official Doom 3 Topic. (ALL POSTS ON THE GAME HERE)
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Doom_Bringer said:
I MAY have just found a glitch with this technique...
It seems to work perfectly on every level I have tried EXCEPT Communication. My flashlight is broken on that level. Initially, the beam of light appears...but is flashing. After a short while, it no longer creates ANY light at all.
EVERY other level I have tried works perfectly, and all other dynamic lights in Comm work as well...but my light beam is messed up.
edit - Actually, it does not even seem to be related to that little "fix". What is going on? The flashlight simply does not work properly in the communication map...and I have no idea why!
Alright, just picked up a 9800 pro. So I'm running:
XP 3200+
1 GB RAM
9800 PRO 128 MB
Out of the box Doom would go black/quit and go to the desktop. I updated to Catalyst 4.7 and everything runs fine now.
The game runs beautifully on high @ 1024x768. Occassionally, I get a slight hickup/stutter but nothing that hinders gameplay. I'm not a PC gamer, so sorry for all the noob questions, but...
1) How much will AA affect gameplay/performance? I'm using 2x right now and really didn't notice that much improvement to 4x. Is there like a rule of thumb?
2) What is v-sync and should I enable it? I tried it and also didn't notice much improvements on graphics and performance.
XP 3200+
1 GB RAM
9800 PRO 128 MB
Out of the box Doom would go black/quit and go to the desktop. I updated to Catalyst 4.7 and everything runs fine now.
The game runs beautifully on high @ 1024x768. Occassionally, I get a slight hickup/stutter but nothing that hinders gameplay. I'm not a PC gamer, so sorry for all the noob questions, but...
1) How much will AA affect gameplay/performance? I'm using 2x right now and really didn't notice that much improvement to 4x. Is there like a rule of thumb?
2) What is v-sync and should I enable it? I tried it and also didn't notice much improvements on graphics and performance.
ToyMachine228
Member
Just entered the Alpha Labs Sector 4
Uno Ill Nino
Banned
Uh.....so NOBODY knows if you can use a gamepad then? I'm demon-food with the mouse/keyboard setup. I have made it to Alpha Labs sector 3 so far....
I've been really having problems with the last two delta lab sectors and the last areas after that. (Hell didn't give me any porblems.) At every door I get horrible slow down. I unzipped the pk files and deleted the old ones. During play its fine but at doors its horrible. It pauses and I only hear the door open and then I get 5 fps for 5 seconds. Whats worse, reloading a save or going to a new sector is now an effort in frustration. IT TAKES FOREVER...Don't know whats going on. This all started in the Delta Labs sector 2.
Forget the haters, game has been getting better and better for me.
Talk about double freaky. The dark corridors where the specimen is your only source of light was intense. By the way, they told me the office of such and such in the delta labs owns if you get in or what not (its also optional). What office was this?
Forget the haters, game has been getting better and better for me.
Uno Ill Nino
Banned
I'm now mostly desensitized to the game's horrors. I have made it to Communications (right after Alpha Labs) and am rolling right through the game now like a man without fear. It probably helps that I've got a ton of plasma ammo though. 
I don't know how to do spoiler tags, so if you haven't gotten out of Communications (after Alpha Labs) yet, stop reading.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
Like I said, I haven't been real scared lately, but there have been a few tricks now and then that really catch me off gaurd and creep the hell outta me. There was one part where bloody footsteps appeared and a voice said "follow me" and then "come here". I of course said, "fuck you" and went the opposite direction. I read on Gamefaqs later that I missed a nifty little scene where the screen goes red again. Oh well. But that part freaked me out. The times like that where you haven't had any encounters in a while and they start using the mindfuck tactics, those are where the game rocks my world. I'm having fun playing it and shooting horde after horde of demon, but the best parts are when the game plays with you. There was another part where I entered a room and there was this loud banging coming from the other side of the room. In fact, the whole room shook when it happened. The lights would go out/red for a second each time it hit too. So I investigate further and find this door is down a flight of steps with some corpses around it and a whole lot of blood all over the place. So naturally I go everywhere else in the room first and then end up coming face to face with the door. When I tried to open it, what happened? BAM! This ugly creature bursts its head through the door and roars at me. Weirdest of all, this voice starts talking to me in what sounds like Latin. Then the voice stops and the door closes. Creepy and puzzling all at once. THAT's what I love about this game. It is composed of the unexplainable.
I don't know how to do spoiler tags, so if you haven't gotten out of Communications (after Alpha Labs) yet, stop reading.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
Like I said, I haven't been real scared lately, but there have been a few tricks now and then that really catch me off gaurd and creep the hell outta me. There was one part where bloody footsteps appeared and a voice said "follow me" and then "come here". I of course said, "fuck you" and went the opposite direction. I read on Gamefaqs later that I missed a nifty little scene where the screen goes red again. Oh well. But that part freaked me out. The times like that where you haven't had any encounters in a while and they start using the mindfuck tactics, those are where the game rocks my world. I'm having fun playing it and shooting horde after horde of demon, but the best parts are when the game plays with you. There was another part where I entered a room and there was this loud banging coming from the other side of the room. In fact, the whole room shook when it happened. The lights would go out/red for a second each time it hit too. So I investigate further and find this door is down a flight of steps with some corpses around it and a whole lot of blood all over the place. So naturally I go everywhere else in the room first and then end up coming face to face with the door. When I tried to open it, what happened? BAM! This ugly creature bursts its head through the door and roars at me. Weirdest of all, this voice starts talking to me in what sounds like Latin. Then the voice stops and the door closes. Creepy and puzzling all at once. THAT's what I love about this game. It is composed of the unexplainable.
WHOAguitarninja
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Yeah, the game gets less scary torwards the end of alpha labs, but i just entereted delta labs and i think the last few hours or so have been by far the scariest so far.
suikodan
Member
It's the first time a game actually "forced" me to upgrade my PC. I have a P4 2.4 with 512Mb of RAM with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 but I was finding the game choppy, even with some extra tweaking. I have a LCD screen so anything lower than 1280x1024 looks pixelated to death and this game was no exception. It was running as low as 8 fps in the Alpha labs when you jump from platform to platform with the tubes circling around to make you fall.
Well, I bought a Radeon 9800 Pro and was clocking a good 25 fps in the same scene, in 1024x768!!! It's all good! And the fighting isn't choppy anymore!
However, I noticed this:
Notice how the box is shiny and that the characters are split up in lighting? I don't think this is normal, any tweaks I could use to turn it back to normal?
This game is too cool. I'm going to try the headphones and dark lights combo now! Enjoy the game!
Well, I bought a Radeon 9800 Pro and was clocking a good 25 fps in the same scene, in 1024x768!!! It's all good! And the fighting isn't choppy anymore!
However, I noticed this:
Notice how the box is shiny and that the characters are split up in lighting? I don't think this is normal, any tweaks I could use to turn it back to normal?
This game is too cool. I'm going to try the headphones and dark lights combo now! Enjoy the game!
shpankey
not an idiot
Playing more tonight and man, this game scared the shit out of me again lol. What I find cool is how the game keeps finding a new way to fuck with me. Sometimes it's jump out and scare you, sometimes it's open a door and a monster is right there, sometimes its the lights going out, or hearing voices, they just continually mentally rape you. I have to take breaks sometimes just to get brave enough to continue lol.
for once, i'm in agreement with all these people i normally don't agree with. thanks a lot, carmack!
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Blah blah blah... More pics!
I was using medium quality for this one...
edit: Whoa, I just noticed the imp's hand being shadowed to the right!
Switched to high quality from here on...
I think this part was mentioned earlier...
Not bad considering I'm running it on:
Athlon XP 2000+
512MB pc-2100 Ram
RX9800 pro 128mb
I was using medium quality for this one...
edit: Whoa, I just noticed the imp's hand being shadowed to the right!
Switched to high quality from here on...
I think this part was mentioned earlier...
Not bad considering I'm running it on:
Athlon XP 2000+
512MB pc-2100 Ram
RX9800 pro 128mb
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
I need to toggle my show_fps. I keep forgetting.
DaCocoBrova said:
Do you still think Far Cry runs better?
I've done even more tweaking, and I'm getting 60 fps more often than not and it NEVER dips as low as FC did...
FC varies too heavily...
Sometimes, it runs really well...but other times, it chugs down to 20 fps and starts to feel laggy. Running around certain areas in the archives with your flashlight absolutely destroys the framerate at times...
ToyMachine228
Member
Just picked up the plasma rifle, and am fighting those flaming heads...Those things are hard! So yeah, so far I think one of the best things visually that I've seen are the animations in a mirror...Go stand in a mirror, and pull out all your weapons, one by one, and watch your character in the mirror. Try reloading them too! Now THAT is polish!
MrPing1000
Member
hmmph i have to highlight the pics to see anything, although when highlighted u can see so much more
WHOAguitarninja
Member
Society said:
actuallyi think it's com_showfps
All Hail C-Webb
Hailing from the Chill-Web
Anyone play this in MP?
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
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This is nitpicky... But I'm interested in learning what the technique is called.
Remember how in Quake 2, if you fired a rocket down a dark hallway, the rocket would illuminate the surroundings in it's path of travel. As robust as the lighting engine is, I'm truly amazed that Doom3 doesn't have that. Or does it...
What's the technique called anyway?
For what's being rendered, hell yes... Think about it for a sec. For Doom3 to be 95% corridor, the performance is pretty sh!tty. For me, Far Cry...while rendering massive environments never drops below 45, but stays well over 60fps most of the time.
I'm too busy just playing Doom3 to really go all out and tweak it. I haven't even extracted the .pak files as I'm content w/ the current game performance.
This is nitpicky... But I'm interested in learning what the technique is called.
Remember how in Quake 2, if you fired a rocket down a dark hallway, the rocket would illuminate the surroundings in it's path of travel. As robust as the lighting engine is, I'm truly amazed that Doom3 doesn't have that. Or does it...
What's the technique called anyway?
For what's being rendered, hell yes... Think about it for a sec. For Doom3 to be 95% corridor, the performance is pretty sh!tty. For me, Far Cry...while rendering massive environments never drops below 45, but stays well over 60fps most of the time.
I'm too busy just playing Doom3 to really go all out and tweak it. I haven't even extracted the .pak files as I'm content w/ the current game performance.
DaCocoBrova said:
First of all, the slowest parts in Far Cry were the indoor segments...
The outdoor segments pretty much disabled a lot of the more advanceed lighting techniques and rely more on your CPU while the indoor segments rely on your GPU. The two areas are VERY different. I have found that Far Cry runs great outdoors (~60 fps a lot of the time...though certainly not always), but many indoor locations can chug pretty hard (as low as 15-20 fps with the flashlight enabled). When displaying similar areas, Doom 3 performs much better than FC. So, you simply have to remember what those outdoor areas are actually doing in comparison to indoors.
Of course, Far Cry looks like shit in motion when compared to Doom 3. It's all about animation.
That lighting you speak of in Quake 2 is nothing more than regular per-vertex dynamic lighting. Doom 3 handles lighting a very different fashion AND casts shadows along with it. It could be enabled in Doom 3, of course...and with rockets, it probably would perform just fine.
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