Doom 3 Problems

[Biske]

Now, I know Doom 3 demands alot out of a PC to operate nicely, so, after checking my hard ware, and seeing that I fell perfectly into the middle of the Requirements (more the the required, but less then the best), I forked over the $30 and bought it.

Got it home, and after updateing it, installing DirectX9.0, and getting the latest video drivers, it stilled crashed my sytem ever 5 minutes it seemed. Everytime a cineamatic type visual or a load screen was about to come up, the game crashed, no matter what I installed for it. I decided to return it and the people I went to laughed in my face like it was my fault. "Duh, Doom takes a beefed up computer to play" "Well no shit, but my comp easily meets the requirements, it still crashes and id has no idea what the **** is wrong with it."

So, can anyone tell me what was wrong with it? Was it jsut a defective CD maybe? Or something for my comp?

Specs:

2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 Proccesor
ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9600 128 mb Video Card
Integrated Audio
1G memory

Anything else you need to know?

[Icedragon]

Well my heres what my comnputer is

3.0 ghz p4
nVidia geforce 5200 fx
Soundblaster audigy 2.0
512 mb ram

I dont have a problem running doom 3 execpt i have to kill the graphics other wise it says SCREW YOU LAG!!!!!! So yeah. As for it crashing what kindda error did it come up with or did it just close and give you nothing?

[FuLouZero]

Hmm, I have no idea but if your looking for nice graphics this game graphics sucks to the average pc owner. Too much requirements to get medriocre graphics... Though with Doom 3 the sky is the limit. Close all programs with the process tree on task manager and retry. I have one question though does it seem like your monitor cuts off or does it have a error?

[Biske]

Well, a few times that it didn't completely just cut out and quite with no error log, it did say "Doom 3 has encountered an Error and Must shut down", but that was like 5 out the 15 times. Those 5 times it said that, I know it was a graphics glitch because my moniter would get all constorted, and the noise in the background would loop, like if I were firing a gun at the time, it would keep sounding like I was firing it, then the moniter would get these bars across the screen and completely freeze up the system, but most of the time, like when I would go into an elevator and it would get ready to load the next level, or when I would turn a corner and there would be a 3rd person cinematic, the game would just, go black, and shut down, no questions asked.

I checked with the game, and with my system I was able to run graphics on Medium Detail, and I had no lag what-so-ever, it's just I couldn't play it for more then 5 minutes at a time, and that I had to press F5 every 30 seconds to save my progress knowing the next second it could crash.

And you know, when I played the Doom 3 demo on that comp, it did the same thing sometimes, but when I played the demo on my moms computer, a system that lags even on low settings and all special thing-a-mabobs turned off, it would never crash, but I had extreme lag...my mom's comp has a GeForce 420 64 mb card, and integrated sound etc etc, not as powerful as my other one, but it never did this....

[bUlLeT_pRoOf]

wow u guys need better comps really
i have a nice beefed up pumped com its sweet but took me like around 4500 dollars to build
i have dual amd 64 bit processors w/ hypertransport system
2 160 gb hard drives main c and d
then i have 2 gb ram and a 2000 mhz front side bus
then i a dual sli ge force 7 series
i recommend getting one more garphic card make a back up of ur hard drive and reinstall windows

[Biske]

Um, seriously, how can you make an accustation like that? Not all of us have $4500 to spend on entertainment so we get what we can get. Take your comment and shove it up your ass.

[Master.America]

Crash with looping sounds... based on my experience, that means your system is overheating. It's not an HP computer, is it? Try this: open your computer's case (leave the side panel off) and play for a while and tell us if you still have this problem. My desktop computer used to have the same exact problem. The graphics card I had was a Geforce FX 5900XT, but the card's fan died and it had no cooling. I had to get a custom-designed GPU cooler for the card in order to solve the problem.

The AIW series cards aren't meant for games like Doom 3, they're meant for graphics editing and whatnot. If you want a graphics card meant for the game, you'll need a ATI Radeon card or an Nvidia Geforce card. I'd recommend a Geforce 6800 or (if you've got some extra money to spend) a 6800 GT if you want to play Doom 3 with decent settings.