Doom 3 Performance boost
 

Found this on Bittorrent.

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I dunno if it's just me, but I noticed this trick beefed up my DOOM3 performance by a lot.

Anyhoo:

In your DOOM 3 directory, find "DoomConfig.cfg" (x:\Program Files\Doom 3\base). Open DoomConfig.cfg in Notepad.

Find the line:

seta image_cacheMegs "32"

I changed 32 to 96.

I got a nice boost in performance. I dunno if the tweak worked or not (maybe my machine did something wierd, have no clue), so I'm just seeing if this works for others as well, or if a different setting works better than others.

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anyone get this working?

Ill try it tonight (I only play doom 3 during the night ;))

looks like that tweak takes more ram.. i'd beware if you only have 512 (stinky)

:cry:

well i posted my RAM on ebay to make the 1 gig jump.. hopefully that will go smoothly :/

bah.. 4x256 = leet...

Hey, i tried that and first of all mine was set at "24" not "32", which may be because of the different performance levels in our cards.. But also, I changed it to 96 and didnt really notice any difference.. but thats just me and my system... I think it depends on the amount of RAM on the mobo and on the VGA card.

mine slowed down and got choppy a bit at certain intervals.....

whoh napster.. 6800 + powmax psu = :grimreaper:

w00t w00t for antec ppl.

*grumbles*

I have to spend 300 euro on

PSU
Speakers
Soundcard

What are you trying to say? Ohh yea i dont have Powmax I have Powertek.... Its a typo in my signature thing.

powmax psu's kill people.. (not really, but the people wish they were dead after it kills their comp..) pick your poison? i've never heard of powertek before either.. oh and gg recognizing a typo and then not fixing it.. :P

Powmax...Powertek, what's the difference. It's not an Antec and that's all that matters!

pretty much! *drools @ gauged price neopower*

Don't you love your TruPower 430, Jason425? It handles anything I throw at it and never has any fluctuation. :)

Re: Doom 3 Performance boost
 

uhh.. ok.. did you want to comment on his post? :confused:

he wants to know if anyone got it working....

.......obviously no one did if he read the thread

I've read about several boosts. The one your described I did... however got little difference. I usually got 38 FPS on Doom 3 on medium details and 800 by 600 (tested it with fraps) i tested it with the 32 changed to 96. only 40 FPS. I have 1.5 gigs of ram. I changed it to 328 and got a bigger shift it stayed solid 45 fps.. future changes did nothing.

There's another performance boost (don't do with the demo)
Go into the base Folder in Doom3 Copy the pak4 files somewhere so you have them and can revert if needed to join an online game.

Pak000
Pak001
Pak002
Pak003
Pak004

Take each pak file and open them with WinRar
When you open them using winrar, they will appear as folders, not zip files, take each file and left click and drag the folder into the base folder

pak000pk4 has a LOT of files, select all and do the same thing you did with the others, when prompted to overwrite, click yes to all

When you have completed this process you will have a bunch of folders (maps Textures, Sounds, ect) in your base folder.

Delete or move the zipped PK files that you just unrar'ed

When you play now you will see an insane performance boost!

it actually didnt make any difference to my machine

it actually didnt make any difference to my machine

probably becasue you have so much ram.. that's nuts..

your sig.. I dunno about beware gamers.. i'd say beware the rest of your comp from your power supply.. never heard of powerage before... poof... :/

my game didnt get a big boost, in doom beacuse i have 4 gigs ram and it didnt do too much