Doom 3 - Are my specs good enuff?

[VGOA|Rob]

768 DDR3200 RAM
XP2500+ Bartone CPU
geforece FX 5200 128MB

after checking the option that says "let doom3determin your level" it put me on medium with like 640 res....what can I do honestly to mak this better tweaks or anything?

[NiPr0]

video card won't make it if you want to put the video quality for the game all the way up. The most important thing with newer games and most games is the video card more than anything. Doom 3 on ultra quality in the settings required the top of the line card with 256+ memory on the card to run smooth. Along with great comp specs. You might even have trouble with high quality setting. I'd recommend medium quality for your specs.

[Felon]

i don't know what tweaks you need, but there are sites to help with that just do a search and those are good enough requirements....my comp didn't even meet the minimum requirements and i just beat game with little lag or problems.

[DarK]

yeah you'll be able to run it, but it will lag. a new vid card like ati 9600xt or geforce fx 5900 run it fine at low to medium graphics. normally 128mb and 256mb cards dont have much of a performance diff, if any at all atm, but for d3, 128mb cards take a hit at high graphics. if i were u, i'd invest in a new vid card, and overclock my cpu and ram.

edit: sry forgot to mention, try overlocking you current video card to its max potential before you start buying anything.

[mH.Suicider]

I'm running on a 5200 FX right now. It pretty much blows in Doom, but if you can tolerate ghettod out graphics, it's playable. I overclocked mine to 281/483 (default is 250/400), I'm getting about 25-30 fps most of the time in single player, at 640x480 low detail. Medium detail is kinda snaggy with it. So, a couple things to try, overclocking, and in the doomconfig.cfg, r_mode "2" - that will change it to 512x384 resolution. It'll look pretty bad, but it'll run better.

[m1lkman]

yeah if they set u at default in medium setting - i would say they know best lol... and cmon medium looks better than any game out right now anyway...

i got 9600xt oc'ed a lil and i run max fps on medium - no tweaks either... id say thats damn good for a 150$ video card on the latest game out

[Radioactive]

I have a 2.4 p4 1024 MB of RAM and a Radeon 9000 Pro and it runs fine on medium with 640 resolution.

[Exe]

I run an AMD 2600 with 512MB and an ATI 9600XT (128MB) and I run in medium detail at 800x600 (with a few config tweaks) and the game runs awesome.

There are tweaks out there that help bigtime - definately look into these!

[DeathBowl]

I got p4 2.4ghz with GeForce Fx 5600(256mb) and 512 mB running on high quality 1024-768 and its shitty lol. it lags a lot but im still able to play it...

Ill try lowering it a bit:) but i prefer it to lag a bit and have wonderful graphics.

My fav weapon is flashlight lol... i luv the light effects.

[phobio]

erra, i get 17 fps with my ge force 2 mx 100/200
with 256 ram and 2 ghz.

[MoeFeaux]

768 DDR3200 RAM
XP2500+ Bartone CPU
geforece FX 5200 128MB

after checking the option that says "let doom3determin your level" it put me on medium with like 640 res....what can I do honestly to mak this better tweaks or anything?

I run it decently with an XP1800 and a GF 3 Ti 200. So yeah, your specs are good enough.