Evil Empire Gaming

Doom3 Tweakage

Tweak Guides has a Doom3 Tweak Guide available. It's good as a reference to console commands as well as providing a few pointers for improved performance. I've done a minor tweak based on the Tweak Guides tips and have seen a small increase in fps on my nearly 2 year old hardware, with no decrease in image quality.

I have an AMD 2500+, 512 DDR333, 64 MB GF4 4200 Ti and saw fps in timedemo 1 go from 24 to 32 at Medium Quality 800x600 resolution. Here they are:

FROM                         TO

seta image_useCache "0"      seta image_useCache "1"

seta image_cacheMegs "20"    seta image_cacheMegs "64"

seta image_cacheMinK "200"   seta image_cacheMinK "2048"

It's important to raise the last value from 200, if it's too low Doom3 will crash. It's all explained in the guide.

It still astounds me how a game can run at medium detail/ 800x600 / 30 fps and still look and feel this good.

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