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Geek Culture / Loading time for Doom3

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Skeletor
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 06:10 Edited at: 21st Sep 2004 07:14
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I just got Doom 3 today and was wondering does it take forever and a day to load? Im sitting here and the one rectangle box with a beast and doom 3 are on my comp but it doesnt pop the game up.

AMD athlon 2000+
Radeon 9000 Pro
1024 mb ram

[EDIT] Nvm a new driver came out like 11 days ago and I wasnt up to date. Also with my specs I am running it on medium with no lag .


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JoelJ
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 07:41
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yeah
put it to high and see what you get, because i have:
AMD Athlon 1600+
radeon 9600 pro (256megs ddr)
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Van B
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 19:16
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There is a command to show your FPS, and also one to benchmark.

I never really got annoyed at the loading times, not when I compare them to Battlefield (which I play a lot of) - I thought they were quite reasonable.


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Rob K
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Posted: 21st Sep 2004 22:36
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It varies hugely depending on the PC.

Doom 3 takes between 5-10 seconds to load on my new PC, nearly a minute on my old one.


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Fallout
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Bah, Van B. You can't get annoyed with battlefield loading times, purely because of the loading music, which always gets me hyped for some nazi obliteration.

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Ilya
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 06:04
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15 seconds is long?
(For Battlefield and Doom3)

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 07:32
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My laptop took over a minute to load, and a good 30 seconds on my AMD 3000+ machine


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Skeletor
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 08:07 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2004 08:09
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I am now running doom 3 on high quality with my comp ... how weird. (Ya it runs nice on my comp)

AMD athlon 2000+
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1024 mb ram
Windows XP

so in other words you dont need a killer PC and Video card to play it nicely.

Oh and I fixed my problem. It was just my Driver for my video card wasnt up to date some doom 3 wasnt starting. Other than that loading time is about 20-30 seconds.


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Do the gaurds get pissed off if you kill them?

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Manticore Night
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It only takes me about a minute. But the games too dark, can't see anything.

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Van B
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2004 23:54
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That's why we have gamma controls .

I know what you mean though, for me it's not necesserily that it's dark - it's the sameyness of everything. I mean, why can't really bright lights be scary too? - I mean a brightly lit operating room with partially autopsied corpses crawling slowly towards you, that would freak me out!, and not a flickering light or pitch black corridor in sight .

It's gotten to the point with me that I hardly play it - I am busy, but when all a game has is freights all the way through it and no rewards, it get's real tiresome. I haven't found anything cool in ages, no new weapons or monsters for about 5 levels or something, I know I'll get more from HL2 and I've only seen videos of that.


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Phaelax
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are we talking about loading the game, or loading between levels?
as far as performance, I run it on high detail without a problem. Think i'll go try ultra, just for fun.

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Lukas W
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2004 17:00 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2004 17:02
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wow, your pcs are far more better than mine!

I play ad low quality, shadows on, specular off, anitalising off, high quality particles on, bump map on, screen res: 800x600

It runs VERY smooth! (thank god) but once I set screen mode to 1024x768 or specular to on, It swap like !!
loading time for me is about 1 - 1.5 minutes

I have:
P4 2000mhz
256 ddr
GeForce 4 MX420 64mb
and Win XP

(I want ATI Radeon X800XT pro, anyone here have it, or have plans on buying it??)


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