Doom3 on low-end system

[Fred Derf Veteran]

My friend has this equipment:

AMD Athlon 1600+ (@1.41GHz, not overclocked)

ECS K7S5A mainboard

256MB RAM

A couple of smallish hard drives (30GBs)

nVidia Geforce2 MX-440 with 64MB

Win XP Pro

Now he'd be fairly happy to get the same running smoothly at 640x480 so I don't think the video card is a huge priority. I realize the video card would be a problem if he wanted to run Doom3 at 1024x768 or something.

When he launches DOOM3 his RAM+PF climbs to 715MB which is rather nasty considering he only has 256MB of real RAM.

The CPU also stays constantly at 100%.

So, what should he upgrade first? What'll give the most bang for the buck?

[Rix]

To be honest, id say the video card.

But im no expert, so maybe more ram would be better.

[Civilian]

i'd also say video card.. or maybe floppy drive :blink: no.. just the video card :happy:

tbh don't expect great preformance on that 'beast' even at 640x480 :pinch:

[Ayepecks]

Upgrade in this order:

- Videocard

- RAM

- Processor

[HellasVagabond]

a Gforce 5700 128 mbytes would play the game rather nice in 800x600 combined with an Athlon XP 3000+

Both shouldnt cost more than 250 bucks....