Doom 3 Problem

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-09-10 02:27pm

For some reason Doom 3 crashes when i try and start it up. It goes from the little screen with the monster and "Doom 3" to a black screen, then a grey screen, back toa black screen then it brings up a window saying:

Run time error
C:\..blah blah ... \Doom3.exe
Abnormal Prigram termination

Any ideas how to solve this?

Currently i can't get the latest drivers for my graphics card (GForce4 MX 440) as they're 12 meg and i'm on dial-up with no CD writer on this PC. I do plan on getting them when i go back to uni and have access to the uni network.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-09-10 03:20pm

Running Doom3 on a Geforce 4?
*snicker*...

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-09-10 03:24pm

What? It say's it'a supported chip set and it makes the minimum requirements easily as far as i can tell.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-09-10 03:51pm

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_doom3_benchmarks.html

The 6800GT barely gets over 30 fps. Even the FX 5950 Ultra gets only 30... I can just imagine how many FPS the Geforce4 will get

It may run on minimum quality though.

Anyway, I don't know what's causing your trouble

Do you have DirectX 8 or 9?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-09-10 04:25pm

Praxis wrote:http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_doom3_benchmarks.html

The 6800GT barely gets over 30 fps. Even the FX 5950 Ultra gets only 30... I can just imagine how many FPS the Geforce4 will get It may run on minimum quality though.

Anyway, I don't know what's causing your trouble Do you have DirectX 8 or 9?

Those are on high quality , I doubt 2000AD is running full quality.

On that matter, i'm not sure shaderless cards work with Doom3

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-09-10 04:35pm

Ace Pace wrote:On that matter, i'm not sure shaderless cards work with Doom3

Doom 3doesn't use pixel shader 2.0 at all...

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-09-13 10:36am

Praxis wrote:http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_doom3_benchmarks.html

The 6800GT barely gets over 30 fps. Even the FX 5950 Ultra gets only 30... I can just imagine how many FPS the Geforce4 will get It may run on minimum quality though.

Anyway, I don't know what's causing your trouble Do you have DirectX 8 or 9?

I'm running the version of DX that Doom comes with it (9b i think, certainly "9 something")

Those are on high quality , I doubt 2000AD is running full quality.

It's not fucking running at all! That's the problem.
My other problem is finding a uni PC with a CD writer so i can get the newest drivers for the card to see if that will work.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-09-13 10:38am

Could be drivers, probebly drivers.

I don't have doom so i'm not sure, any out-of-game configuration programs to set stuff up?