Doom 3 timedemo

[Symbiotic Hat]

What the hell are you monkeys smoking. You can get over 60. Best I got was 79.1.

Athlon 64 3200

1GB RAM

GeForce 6800GT

1024x768 High Detail no AA/AF

[MajorSham]

On an "average" system, 22.1 fps. .

Athlon XP 2500+

GeForce 5900xt

1024 MB PC 2700 SD-RAM

800x600 High Detail

I think I'm going to bus overclock my system, see how that does. *hugs Volcano 11*

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32.1 fps

thats on high detail 1280 res

specs:

athlon 3000+

512pc2700

9800aiw

[LOC Veteran]

Uh, timedemo and benchmarking are totally and completely different than a single player framerate cap.

Are you saying John Carmack LIED about having a framerate cap in his own game?

[Symbiotic Hat]

  LOC said:

Uh, timedemo and benchmarking are totally and completely different than a single player framerate cap.

Are you saying John Carmack LIED about having a framerate cap in his own game?

There may be a 60FPS cap in the game (haven't checked yet) but the timedemo will run as high as it can go. The original post said to run the timedemo, not to just post random framerates from in game.

[MajorSham]

LOC: I wasn't aware that he stated he placed a framerate cap in the game, and I wasn't aware that the benchmark processed all of the frames as fast as possible, and then divided the total processing time by the number of frames to get the average framerate.

Some other unimportant news:

I upped the voltage on my processor and gave a slight over volt to my slow ass 333 RAM so that it would remain stable at 400 (Kingston ValueRAM stuff. . :wacko:). Overclocking from 2500+ to 3200+ netted me a few extra FPS, boosting my score to 23.1. The real benefit came when I turned off all AA and set all quality settings to their lowest levels in the nVidia graphics quality controls. Retaining the same quality settings within Doom 3, I boosted my score to 34.4. I'm certain the score would be higher, were it not for my slow ass HDD not being able to keep up with all of the on the fly loading done by the engine.

[MajorSham]

Hmm. . seems that this time around, Doom didn't keep grabbing stuff from the HDD. . anyways. . I turned off NAV, and turned Mipmaps all the way off, and gained another two fps. . 36.7.

Anways, perhaps my tooling around might give some less fortunate people an idea as to how Doom 3 will run on more common systems. :happy:

[nvme]

make sure you guys defrag your drives after installing it.. my game was acting up and after i defraged that partition it's running in high at 1024x768 and the timedemo is getting 40.7.

p4 3.06 533fsb

1gb dual channel memory running sychronous to the fsb

evga geforce fx5900 ultra

[Xylene]

ATI users, get the BETA Catalyst 4.8 drivers from http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=1723 .. They gave me 2-3FPS boost on the timedemo, with my 9600XT.

[Dotdot]

hey Xylene you got a 9600xt so do I, what kinda system u running as Im on a amd 2600xp / 1gb ddr 333mhz / 9600xt 256mb

anyone know what kinda results i can expect with that?

[mAcOdIn Veteran]

The game is capped the timedemo benchmark is not capped, ID sayed this themselves.

A benchmark is useless if it has a cap.

[Xylene]

  Colicab said:

hey Xylene you got a 9600xt so do I, what kinda system u running as Im on a amd 2600xp / 1gb ddr 333mhz / 9600xt 256mb

anyone know what kinda results i can expect with that?

Check my sig. 1024x768 medium should be fine for you.

[inum]

i need a new HDD or a MORE RAM

score was 26.9fps

Rig

Athlon Xp 3200 (200fsb)

2 x 256 Pc3200 (dual) (200fsb)

Radeon 9800 Pro @ stock

80 GB seagate 8 mb

when the drive wasnt swapping the fps was over 40 most of the time @ 1024 res and ultra wuality and whatnot

[Steelyguy]

36 fps

640x480, medium detail. In advanced options, the first two graphics options are disabled (I forget what they are right now)

Athlon 2600+ (266 FSB)

Geforce 3

512 DDR RAM

The game is playable on my PC, but it gets kinda choppy when things get crazy in the game.

[DsnBehind]

  LOC said:

^^^^ I nearly choked on my green tea.

I love green tea. :D

[_Pablo]

1280x1024

0xAA

4xAF

Vysnc off

28fps on demo1 (high detail of course).

[userguy]

As explained, the game tics at 60 hz, so any framerate above 60 is displaying duplicate frames--there's no visual improvement to the game. That the time demo allows more is likely only to benchmark, and anything above 60 fps will be displaying duplicate frames.

[Shaidar]

I emailed Mr. Carmack for some explication about that timedemo ... I sure hope he'd answser, that 'll be 31337 :D