Will Doom 3 destroy my graphics card?

Narcolepsy

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I've heard some reports of Doom 3 making Radeon 9800 Pros and some other cards overheat. It causes artifacts in the game, and worse, sometimes the card artifacts in other games as well.

Are these just crazy people with really bad luck? I downloaded the demo, but don't want to try it out if it's going to put me out $200.
 
I have a Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb and I've run Doom 3 for a long time and never had any problems. Maybe these people have overclocked their cards and that is why they were having so many problems. I havent really ever heard anything about people's 9800 Pros getting ruined from just running Doom 3. If you have the Catalyst 4.9s I believe you get better performance on Doom 3 anyway. From what I hear the 4.10s will make it even better. Don't worry about your card getting ruined because it most likely won't.
 
Narcolepsy said:
I've heard some reports of Doom 3 making Radeon 9800 Pros and some other cards overheat. It causes artifacts in the game, and worse, sometimes the card artifacts in other games as well.

Are these just crazy people with really bad luck? I downloaded the demo, but don't want to try it out if it's going to put me out $200.

You will not destroy your 9800 Pro. Now say it with me, "I will not destroy your 9800 Pro." Excellent

From my understanding, it was more of a driver issues than a heat issue. So if you use the most recent ATI drivers, you should be fine.

If you do experience symptoms of overheating (ie whitedots), don't worry. Just exit out of the game and post back here. It is impossible for you to fry your card. Trust me.
 
I heard the white dots weren't actually occuring because of heat but rather a conflict that D3 has with the cards hardware when they are overclocked. I can't rememebr exactly what the conflict was/is, but I got the white dots when I overclocked but there wasn't a big heat gain.
 
blahblahblah said:
"I will not destroy your 9800 Pro."
Oh, don't worry, I wasn't going to destroy yours. I was worried about mine. :E

But thanks for the advice. I guess I'll be venturing into hell tonight.
 
Kristafon said:
whats artifacts? :rolling:

white dots and wierd patters that will accour on some games when your videocard gets overheated
 
so a game can destroy a videocard?

(I dont know a heck about PC,if you go to flame me read my spoiler sig)
 
Don't worry, you can let this thread die. I'm running it at High, and nothing has exploded yet. You can all rest in peace.
 
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