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any tweaks for a geforce2?
Exhaustive Doom III Benchmarks
- Thread starter Micah
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I ran my GeForce 2 and got it to run ok... take off bump mapping, specular, High special effects, and shadow.. put it at low... put it at 640x480... then do the tweaks listed before as far as the image cache and the like... I ran a pretty solid 20+ fps without issue on it... was very much playable.dominoy2k1 said:
Installshield 2
Gothenburg Superiority
Same here...Just finished the game for the second time...I left bump mapping enabled, but that was it...and just did the un-packing tweak, plus defragged and got new Nvidia drivers....runs perfectly fine...obviously the lighting aspects, and AA aren't as good as it could be...but the game still looks really good....
Sucks though that the older card isn't 9.x compliant or whatever...which means no heat haze...and I never realized how cool that was until this game (the shockwave from the exploding rockets is amazing)...I only get that on the desktop...But if I am bored at the library or somewhere, the laptop still plays it perfectly smooth...
Sucks though that the older card isn't 9.x compliant or whatever...which means no heat haze...and I never realized how cool that was until this game (the shockwave from the exploding rockets is amazing)...I only get that on the desktop...But if I am bored at the library or somewhere, the laptop still plays it perfectly smooth...
Installshield 2
Gothenburg Superiority
I beat it the first time on friday night, and had played it for probably 20 hours total...just played for about 5 hours a day total between work and school...
The longest part was the end boss...I don't want to give that away, but I spent almost all of friday evening trying to beat it...
I then started it on the medium difficulty...and it goes a whole lot faster once you know all the secrets...I remembered most of the little stuff, and the ways to beat all the bosses...so I finished it again yesterday...Trying to go through the ultra-violence one tonight, and then on to nightmare...I have heard that nightmare is just insane...and I can imagine...after playing Q3 for 5 years, I still could only beat like one person on nightmare...
Overall I like Doom 3...But I remember liking Doom 2 more...I was mentioning earlier, the staged crap is just annoying...and gets old after the first time it happens...This game looks great, but it attempts to scare you too much...and if you are expecting attempts to scare you, it doesn't really do anything...Doom 2 was much more open, and at the time looked really good...After the visual shock wears off, there isn't a whole lot more to flip out about...
yeah turfburn, the heat haze thing is insane...You probably don't have a rocket launcher yet...but you do have a 9.X video card right? You should see hazing and blurring over anything hot in the game...On my A51, even the steam from broken pipes has all kinds of hazing all over it, and those crazy burning zombies that lumber after you while on fire...Also fireballs from imps, you can see the hazing when they hit a wall or something...
Its tough to see sometimes, because it is a transparent affect...there is no change in lighting associated with it, it simply warps what is all ready there...So look for it in well lit areas...if you see a barrel in open light, pay close attention because you will probably notice it...Towards the end you will definately notice it though, because you are arond lava all the time...and above the lava you can tell it looks similar to real heat...
The longest part was the end boss...I don't want to give that away, but I spent almost all of friday evening trying to beat it...
I then started it on the medium difficulty...and it goes a whole lot faster once you know all the secrets...I remembered most of the little stuff, and the ways to beat all the bosses...so I finished it again yesterday...Trying to go through the ultra-violence one tonight, and then on to nightmare...I have heard that nightmare is just insane...and I can imagine...after playing Q3 for 5 years, I still could only beat like one person on nightmare...
Overall I like Doom 3...But I remember liking Doom 2 more...I was mentioning earlier, the staged crap is just annoying...and gets old after the first time it happens...This game looks great, but it attempts to scare you too much...and if you are expecting attempts to scare you, it doesn't really do anything...Doom 2 was much more open, and at the time looked really good...After the visual shock wears off, there isn't a whole lot more to flip out about...
yeah turfburn, the heat haze thing is insane...You probably don't have a rocket launcher yet...but you do have a 9.X video card right? You should see hazing and blurring over anything hot in the game...On my A51, even the steam from broken pipes has all kinds of hazing all over it, and those crazy burning zombies that lumber after you while on fire...Also fireballs from imps, you can see the hazing when they hit a wall or something...
Its tough to see sometimes, because it is a transparent affect...there is no change in lighting associated with it, it simply warps what is all ready there...So look for it in well lit areas...if you see a barrel in open light, pay close attention because you will probably notice it...Towards the end you will definately notice it though, because you are arond lava all the time...and above the lava you can tell it looks similar to real heat...
I'm guessing that because I have high quality special effects turned off I"m not seeing it. I'll turn that on and see what happens 
I do have a DX9 card with DX9.0c installed... so I should get it... sounds pretty nifty..
The sheer terror of trying to play the game has finally worn off... it's a lot easier to play now. I was too freaked half the time to play for long before I felt to hyped up on adrenaline and needed to take a break... I'm a wuss I guess LOL.
I do have a DX9 card with DX9.0c installed... so I should get it... sounds pretty nifty..The sheer terror of trying to play the game has finally worn off... it's a lot easier to play now. I was too freaked half the time to play for long before I felt to hyped up on adrenaline and needed to take a break... I'm a wuss I guess
LOL.Installshield 2
Gothenburg Superiority
yeah it was amazingly hard at first....the constant sounds, and it was hard to get used to the lack of light...
The things that made me need to stop playing were the "help me";s and child cyring in some parts towards the beginning...I would just leave the room for a bit...The zombie's were pretty creepy too, mostly their eyes or lack of...and I could not stand getting in the venting shafts...
but like you said it kind of wears off...and after that it, and after you get used to the visuals...there isn't much new...its still a great game though, and one of my favorites...I just didn't care for the switch from an all out war (like the first couple Doom's) to more of a survival horror game...
The things that made me need to stop playing were the "help me";s and child cyring in some parts towards the beginning...I would just leave the room for a bit...The zombie's were pretty creepy too, mostly their eyes or lack of...and I could not stand getting in the venting shafts...
but like you said it kind of wears off...and after that it, and after you get used to the visuals...there isn't much new...its still a great game though, and one of my favorites...I just didn't care for the switch from an all out war (like the first couple Doom's) to more of a survival horror game...
Installshield 2
Gothenburg Superiority
Recycling2 is something to do with the Monorail right? I would say around half way...if you are getting bored now, and the couple levels right after the monorail was when I was starting to really get pissed, don't worry about it...it definately switches gears in the near future...
Once you get into Delta labs 4, you are really getting into some changes...that, and its "inner" level, were my favorite in the game...
Once you get into Delta labs 4, you are really getting into some changes...that, and its "inner" level, were my favorite in the game...
what's worse then being up s*** creak without a paddle?
...being in hell without a flashlight The darkness in this game drives me f'n nuts. CAn't play it at all in the day time. They should put that on the damn box....warning, requires night time lighting in order to SEE ANYTHING! There for a while there seemed to be more light in the levels and I was enjoying it some.
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...being in hell without a flashlight
The darkness in this game drives me f'n nuts. CAn't play it at all in the day time. They should put that on the damn box....warning, requires night time lighting in order to SEE ANYTHING! There for a while there seemed to be more light in the levels and I was enjoying it some.arg
Here they (it) are!
A readme.txt within the archive contains installation instructions.
Short version - unpack to your 'base' directory under the Doom3 directory.
Download DuctTape 0003
* Fixed bug where new light wasn't casting shadow.
Download DuctTape 0002
* Created new light map - cone is now much narrower than the
flashlight's, but also a little brighter. Makes the flashlight
viable again, as it provides a less claustrophobic viewpoint.
* By popular request, light added to shotgun.
A readme.txt within the archive contains installation instructions.
Short version - unpack to your 'base' directory under the Doom3 directory.
Download DuctTape 0003
* Fixed bug where new light wasn't casting shadow.
Download DuctTape 0002
* Created new light map - cone is now much narrower than the
flashlight's, but also a little brighter. Makes the flashlight
viable again, as it provides a less claustrophobic viewpoint.
* By popular request, light added to shotgun.
Installshield 2
Gothenburg Superiority
Yeah why the hero Marine has no clue how to tape or wire a flashlight to a gun is just ridiculous...and it really gets corny where you had to escort that punk with a lantern through some corridors..."don't let me die, because I am the only one with light"...Why can't you just shoot that scientist, and take his lantern? the lantern is way brighter than your flashlight, but I guess it takes a UAC certified scientist to use it properly...I let him die before the end...and the lantern goes out or breaks or something...I was pissed....
Thats stupid...and thats the sort of s*** I was talking about earlier...WAY too many feeble attmepts to scare you...Don't get me wrong its creepy, but purposely not allowing you to hold a pistol in one hand and a flashlight in the other is just to make you helpless in the dark...Being helpless in dark hallways isn't scary, its just annoying and time consuming...and trying to wack a zombie with that crap flashlight is about as affective as pissing on them...
Wait till you get the chainsaw...and use that as the flashlight, thats what I do...if you are in the dark and can't see s***...wip that thing out...it won't light anything up any better, but if something trys to get in front of you, you'll know it...
Thats stupid...and thats the sort of s*** I was talking about earlier...WAY too many feeble attmepts to scare you...Don't get me wrong its creepy, but purposely not allowing you to hold a pistol in one hand and a flashlight in the other is just to make you helpless in the dark...Being helpless in dark hallways isn't scary, its just annoying and time consuming...and trying to wack a zombie with that crap flashlight is about as affective as pissing on them...
Wait till you get the chainsaw...and use that as the flashlight, thats what I do...if you are in the dark and can't see s***...wip that thing out...it won't light anything up any better, but if something trys to get in front of you, you'll know it...
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