Doom3 on Inspiron 8500, Far Cry ran...why not this?

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pfunk816

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I don't understand why this won't work at all. Far Cry ran find with some modded display drivers, and even with nvidias newest driver, nothing works...I even overclocked a little...can ANYONE please help me...I know this isn't a hardcore gaming laptop, but people said they can get good results on it.

Dell Inspiron 8500
2.4 Ghz
512 Mb
GeForce 4 4200 Go
61.77
running at 220/470
 
First you are going to have to explain what the problem is to start with. It does not work at all is not a good explanation.

Does it start the game? Are you getting display errors? Lockups?

The more specific the better.


Spud
 
Should be able to do 640x480 medium.... with high quality textures off.
 
think back to farcry, did it run well indoors with all that heavy dynamic lighting ? cause thats probably the only way how farcry and doom 3 is similar ..farcry didnt push the envelope as much as they'd like to think.

and they were a bit bastardly and didnt support mobility cards so i've fallen out with them :) doom3 however is alot heavier than people think.
 
I run Doom 3 on my Inspiron 8200.

1.8 Ghz Pentium 4-M
1 Gig PC2100
Geforce 4 440Go (64 Megs)
5400 RPM hard drive.

I forced the laptop to use the actual Nvidia drivers (not Dell) and I'm playing Doom 3 on 640x480 Medium.
 
it should have no problem running on that; hell...my T41 with a 32mb Radeon 9000 is running it at 640x480 Low at 20fps; 45 if I turn off shadows.
 
Did you follow my instruction from your other thread and/or have you finally solved your problem?

I've played 1/3 of the game on my laptop and I'm happy at medium quality, 840x525 (widescreen). It gets 28.8fps in timedemo demo1 with all the quality options enabled. :D

If you have the 1280x800 screen, you might want to try medium quality 640x400 (use rivatuner to add that resolution @ 60Hz in 8,16,32 bit) which should give you a timedemo score of around 34fps. Or if you have the 1920x1200 screen, 960x600 in low quality should also run pretty nicely. I ran 960x600 in medium quality for a level, but it's a little too slow for my taste (~25fps in the timedemo).

See the video card forum for how to add custom resolutions in Doom3 (3 line changes in DoomConfig.cfg or 4 lines enter at the ctrl-alt-~ console).
 
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