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Doom 3 Problem

Posted: 2004-09-10 02:27pm
by 2000AD
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.

Posted: 2004-09-10 03:20pm
by Praxis
Running Doom3 on a Geforce 4?
*snicker*...

Posted: 2004-09-10 03:24pm
by 2000AD
What? It say's it'a supported chip set and it makes the minimum requirements easily as far as i can tell.

Posted: 2004-09-10 03:51pm
by Praxis
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?

Posted: 2004-09-10 04:25pm
by Ace Pace
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 :?

Posted: 2004-09-10 04:35pm
by Dahak
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...

Posted: 2004-09-13 10:36am
by 2000AD
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.

Posted: 2004-09-13 10:38am
by Ace Pace
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?