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"Shawk" <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses> wrote in message
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> "The Berzerker" <Berzerker@Woooooooo.com> wrote in message
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>> "faster_framerates" <nothanks@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>> However, upon formatting my drive to set it all back to loveliness, Doom
>> 3 now starts jogging and stuttering hideously after a few levels when
>> using High settings. No idea why, same AGP driver, tried the same radeon
>> drivers.... everything. Anyway.... now I have to play the game on medium
>> (which greatly delays the stuttering rather than fixing it) - anyway, my
>> point is that the Radeon 9800 Pro is capable of higher than low..... and
>> my card is the 128MB version.
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>> Still, you're probably right....... I can't see the difference between
>> medium and high...... and the performance gain is minimal.
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> Did you have any tweaks in your 'doomconfig.cfg' file before? Only one I
> use is seta image_anisotropy "2"
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> This allows me to play in high detail with no slow down at all. There are
> lots of other tweaks but I haven't needed to experiment.
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I really appreicate AF.... the difference is incredibly clear. I've also
noticed when testing most games that all benchmarks etc turn out practically
identical whether I have AF set to 0, 2 or even 16! The difference is always
very clear though. AA, now that's something I can live without. Jaggies just
never bothered me that much (especially at 1024*768+). Considering the
performance hit is often huge, I just go without AA.
I believe I had a few RAM tweaks, such as those cache ones. Still, I put
them back in with what I think were the figures I used before, and it hasn't
fixed it. Still, whatever... I finished Doom 3 (& ROE) ages ago, and
throughly enjoyed it. No need to worry about it now.

- i'm sure it'll
magically fix itself by the time I feel like playing again...