Good video card for Doom 3

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Mattigus

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I have a Radeon 9200 SE, and I recently got Doom 3. I can't run the game with shadows, because the game slows too much. What's a good video card that can run the game with all the cool features, and is reasonable priced? Just for reference, my computer has a 2.4 gig processor, and 768 megs of ram.
 
Nvidia's 6800 GT is the most bang for your buck right now IMO.
 
Is the SE version of the 9200 a cheap version of it or something? I'm just wondering because my Geforce Ti4400 plays it at 1024x768 with all shadows turned on. But I thought the 9200 series was better than my card?
 
Yeah, by 'special edition' ATI means the 'retarded' definition of 'special'.
 
I have a 6800 GT AND DAMN DOES DOOM LOOK FINE!
 
Get a Radeon 9800 Pro. Should be around $200 depending on where you look.
 
i was thinking maybe a 9600 xt. How would that run Doom 3?
 
Mattigus said:
i was thinking maybe a 9600 xt. How would that run Doom 3?
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It would run it at 1024x768 on medium detail, same as my 9500 Pro. It looks amazing!
 
Good. My Radeon 9200 can run it with low detail at 640 by 480, with shadows turned off. I have a feeling that shadows make all the difference when it comes to the Doom 3 engine. Am I right?
 
Well, the dotmapping is what is truely important. But the shadows add the atmosphere to the game.
 
Thinking ahead, get the 9800 Pro (flash it to get more out of it). It is resonably priced (with the x800 starting to get around), it will run Doom 3 at high res and hish detail resonably, but most importantly, it will kick ass in HL2 :). The 9800 is the poor college students choise.
 
I bought my friend a 9600XT and he can run 1024x768 on Medium. You could translate that to 800x600 on High if you want.

I have a 9800 Pro, after all tweaks I get 43.2FPS in Timedemo 1024x768 on High. :thumbs:
 
i have a issue with the couple of posts about the 9600xt. i could say it is 'not as good as advertised', but im a bit confused. I have a 9600xt video card WITH the latest drivers and i can only run it in 800x600 on low detail, possibly medium detail with all the nifty functions off. But i choose to run the game in 640x480 on medium detail (i cannot run it in high because my fps drops a lot) with all the nifty functions on and 2x aa. Still with it running in what i like to call 'crap mode' my fps drops quite a bit sometimes (like in hell).

However my friend spud has the exact same set up but he has aquired the video card known as the 9500pro. he runs it in 1024x768 on medium settings with 2x aa with near 50 fps. the only time it really slows down is when he opens a door and theres an imp or someother creature behind it. that seems to be a ram issue though.

neither of us have our systems over clocked.

System specs:
BArton 2500
512mb ram
asus a7n8x-x
 
I don't know about the 9600XT.. but I am running the 9500 Pro and I am using 1024x768 on medium as well. I wouldn't say it averages 50 fps, closer to 30.. but fine for me.
 
The 9800 is the poor college students choise.
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Good thing I'm a poor college student. But after looking at the prices, it looks like the card is around 200 bucks. That's too much for me. I must be some kind of super-poor college student.
 
yes, this is now the reason i am selling my radeon 9600xt to a friend of mine (he's not exactly a computer dude) for about $200 (hehe). so i will be upgrading to a 9800pro
 
I just downloaded the newest drivers for my Radeon 9200, and now the game runs a lot better. I can turn shadows on, along with everything else.

Still, I probably should get a new card.
 
I have a 9600 256mb and I run the game on high in 800x600 and get great fps (haven't checked, but it's smooth).

It's only like a $100 card now...but it'd only be a quick fix...because it's gonna get outdated quite quickly now.
 
Why? said:
yes, this is now the reason i am selling my radeon 9600xt to a friend of mine (he's not exactly a computer dude) for about $200 (hehe). so i will be upgrading to a 9800pro
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He's your "friend" yet you rip him off so blatently for a used 9600xt?

Someone needs to inform your friend that he can buy his own 9800pro with that cash instead of letting his "friends" take advantage of him.
 
top cards for doom3:
1-6800ultra
2-x800xt
3-6800gt
 
Gorgon said:
top cards for doom3:
1-6800ultra
2-x800xt
3-6800gt
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I can see the bank accounts suddenly dropping hard. My next graphics card purchase will be second generation 512MB cards.
 
Im playing Doom 3 on High @ 1024 using 9600Pro and A64@2100MHz and 1024Mb ram plus Humus tweak and tweaked .cfg-file.
 
I bought a Galaxy Glacier 6800 cuz my old 9800pro died. Hopefully it'll play Doom III and the others at least as well as the 9800pro would have done. It was pretty cheap for a 6800 series card, but then it's the bottom of the ladder, 128mb non-GT 6800. Slightly overclocked by default over the 'standard' 128mb 6800's though ;)
 
Gorgon said:
top cards for doom3:
1-6800ultra
2-x800xt
3-6800gt
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In all the benchmarks I've seen the 6800gt beats the x800xt......
 
yep, with my 9600xt i am getting 6fps while fighting the gaurdian. hopefully lowering doom 3 to the lowest will allow me to beat him
 
lazicsavo said:
What benchmarks are we talking about?
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Check out the HardOcp Doom 3 official benchmarks. They show that the order of speed in Doom 3 goes:

1. 6800 Ultra
2. X800XT
3. 6800GT
4. GeForce 2MX
5. X800pro
 
MY X800 Pro runs it flawlessly. I just built my computer today and what better way to test her out than to play Doom 3.
 
Kazuki_Fuse said:
Check out the HardOcp Doom 3 official benchmarks. They show that the order of speed in Doom 3 goes:

1. 6800 Ultra
2. X800XT
3. 6800GT
4. GeForce 2MX
5. X800pro
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Yes, one game. I want a broad range of game (10-20). Everybody knew that NVidia is gonna outperform in D3, but since they outperformed the ATI so much is why people are complaining. Saying that the 6800 series outperforms the X800 series based only on one game is rather foolish. But since I have a good old 9800 Pro, this argument is only for principal and not to defend either compay.
 
On the 5700 FX Ultra I am able to run on high detail with shadows.....then again on the box it says recommended for Doom 3 by ID software :)
 
I just want everybody to know that they shouldn't forget to check their virtual memory settings, if they're having trouble with their fps.
I never thought it would have such an impact on fps.

My fps were good the first few days of doom3, and then crap, no matter what settings. I checked virtual memory
(got on of those "low virtual memory" warnings), saw that it was only like 300Mb, turned it up to the recommended 1500Mb something,
and now doom3 is buttery smooth at medium 1024, all advanced settings except antialiasing turned on.

Geforce 4 ti4600 btw..
 
I have just bought an Asus v9999 6800 Ultra Deluxe 256mb ddr3 for £400, its a massive price but I upgraded from a 9700 pro which was broken :( or 1/2 broke should I say. I'm glad I bought it and I will not be upgrading to PCI-E for about 6/10months. So its all good :D
 
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