i just got Doom 3, and with my dual Xeon processor, 2 gigs of DDR 333 RAM, and 256 meg NVIDIA GeForce card, when i set the graphics to extreme resolution the game actually slows down a bit. it shows a popup when i set the resolution and warns me that it will take 500 meg of texture memory, but when i run the game and hit Ctl Alt Del and look at the process, Doom 3 is only taking up about 600 megs total. that leaves about 1.4 GIGS free memory. 2 Xeon processors 3.06 Ghz each, and the game slows down. i emailed support that they said it might be that the processors are executing game commands faster that the video card can process the textures. any ideas on how to get this workstation to shred apart this game. there should not a program out there (yet) that can slow this machine down. i think it might be my computer settings.
any ideas?
Doom 3
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localmotion34
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Doom 3
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!.WHILE status != dwPassedOut
! Invoke AllocateDrink, dwBeerAmount
!MOV Mug, Beer
!Invoke Drink, Mug, dwBeerAmount
!.endw
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if it is using 500 meg of texture memory then it will overflow from your video card into your system memory. This will cause a definate slow down. It has nothing to do with your processor power, but the fact that it has to retrieve textures from system memory when they are used for rendering. I suggest you get a 512 MB video card (if they are available) to fit the requirements that the warning is giving you.
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I don't believe 512 MB cards are out yet but they're coming. You can't run ultra display mode on the single player levels without a 512MB card (which you're trying? See Codemonger's post) ... but apparently the multi player levels will allow you to with a 256MB card. If you can run these no problem on ultra ... then you'll know it's a memory issue. What kind of a video card are you using? I'm assuming you're using a 6800?
I understand you want your super system to 'shred apart this game'. If it supported dual processors (do you know? I haven't looked into this) and you have 512MB of real video ram ... it basically would. This assumes a high end dx9 card of course...
I understand you want your super system to 'shred apart this game'. If it supported dual processors (do you know? I haven't looked into this) and you have 512MB of real video ram ... it basically would. This assumes a high end dx9 card of course...
localmotion, you gave the answer yourself... TEXTURE memory is in your vid card... and at 256 mb there's simply not enough space which means excess data is stored in main mem
pretty impressive hardware, by the way, very useful for playing games...
<tongue *firmly* in cheek>
pretty impressive hardware, by the way, very useful for playing games...
<tongue *firmly* in cheek>
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Re: Doom 3
> there should not a program out there (yet) that can slow this machine down
There seem to be some good benchmarking apps here that you could test
your PC with:
http://decentdownloads.x-istence.com/Be ... marks.html
They're geared towards hardcore gamers and next-gen machines, so...
There seem to be some good benchmarking apps here that you could test
your PC with:
http://decentdownloads.x-istence.com/Be ... marks.html
They're geared towards hardcore gamers and next-gen machines, so...
I compile using 5.31 (x86) on Win 7 Ultimate (64-bit).
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localmotion34
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can i just say that i am getting the new 3D Labs 512 MEG video card in 2 weeks. mwaahahahahah. mwaahahahah. 
dual RAMDAC 400mHz processing units too. so let me just update:
dual xeon 3.06 Ghz processors 512 K cache with hyperthreading: overclocked
2 GIGS DDR 333 Mhz RAM with dual channel
512 MEG video card with dual RAMDAC processing
mindsoft utilities tweaked system with XPlite reduced XP professional
and when i get my PHD and am working at a pharmaceutical company in the end of 2006:
PB version 5-6.0
QUADRUPLE AMD 64 Opteron 3.0 Ghz processors with 1Ghz frontside BUS
32 GIGS of DDR 3 ECC REG RAM
1 GIG video card with DUAL RAMDACS released by 3D Labs in late 2006
mwahahahahah. mwahahahahah.
dual RAMDAC 400mHz processing units too. so let me just update:dual xeon 3.06 Ghz processors 512 K cache with hyperthreading: overclocked
2 GIGS DDR 333 Mhz RAM with dual channel
512 MEG video card with dual RAMDAC processing
mindsoft utilities tweaked system with XPlite reduced XP professional
and when i get my PHD and am working at a pharmaceutical company in the end of 2006:
PB version 5-6.0
QUADRUPLE AMD 64 Opteron 3.0 Ghz processors with 1Ghz frontside BUS
32 GIGS of DDR 3 ECC REG RAM
1 GIG video card with DUAL RAMDACS released by 3D Labs in late 2006
mwahahahahah. mwahahahahah.
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!.WHILE status != dwPassedOut
! Invoke AllocateDrink, dwBeerAmount
!MOV Mug, Beer
!Invoke Drink, Mug, dwBeerAmount
!.endw
> so let me just update:
> dual xeon 3.06 Ghz processors 512 K cache with hyperthreading: overclocked
> 2 GIGS DDR 333 Mhz RAM with dual channel
> 512 MEG video card with dual RAMDAC processing
So where do you live, again?
> dual xeon 3.06 Ghz processors 512 K cache with hyperthreading: overclocked
> 2 GIGS DDR 333 Mhz RAM with dual channel
> 512 MEG video card with dual RAMDAC processing
So where do you live, again?
I compile using 5.31 (x86) on Win 7 Ultimate (64-bit).
"PureBasic won't be object oriented, period" - Fred.
"PureBasic won't be object oriented, period" - Fred.
PURE EVIL!localmotion34 wrote:can i just say that i am getting the new 3D Labs 512 MEG video card in 2 weeks. mwaahahahahah. mwaahahahah.
dual xeon 3.06 Ghz processors 512 K cache with hyperthreading: overclocked
2 GIGS DDR 333 Mhz RAM with dual channel
512 MEG video card with dual RAMDAC processing
mindsoft utilities tweaked system with XPlite reduced XP professional
and when i get my PHD and am working at a pharmaceutical company in the end of 2006:
PB version 5-6.0
QUADRUPLE AMD 64 Opteron 3.0 Ghz processors with 1Ghz frontside BUS
32 GIGS of DDR 3 ECC REG RAM
1 GIG video card with DUAL RAMDACS released by 3D Labs in late 2006
mwahahahahah. mwahahahahah.
~Dreglor
speaking about big numbers:localmotion34 wrote: dual xeon 3.06 Ghz processors 512 K cache with hyperthreading: overclocked
2 GIGS DDR 333 Mhz RAM with dual channel
512 MEG video card with dual RAMDAC processing
mindsoft utilities tweaked system with XPlite reduced XP professional
I can't believe you still work with 32bit CPU's - how lame is that
Ok, ok, I go back into my corner and play with my superfast 949999987 Hz AMD Duron laptop with 262143998 bytes of ram (some of them got lost...) and 65536000 bits of video ram.
