So does the leaked Doom 3 Alpha work good on the G400?

[DosFreak]

Thought I'd start the thread before someone else did.

I would try my G400 but I let a friend borrow it and it disappeared looong ago....Going to try it out on my V3, GF4, Radeon 9700...see how well it does.

[lecter]

Didn't work on my Parhelia....

[DosFreak]

Yep, game crashed back to desktop on my G450 at work. Oh, well there goes my Doom 3 gaming goodness at work. (Gonna try on a GF4MX laying around here...)

Gonna try on my 9700 when I get home in an hour.

[chr_79]

Originally posted by lecter
Didn't work on my Parhelia....

Try to delete (or rename) DoomConfig.cfg and tell me if it work.

[Rukes]

Originally posted by chr_79


Try to delete (or rename) DoomConfig.cfg and tell me if it work.

I did that, still didn't work for me. All the polygons are warped, corrpted and 98% black I'm using the 1.02 drivers though, so I think I might go back to 1.01 or earlier later tonight and see...

Surpisingly, it works OK at work on one of those intergrated Intel video card chipsets.

[chr_79]

Originally posted by Rukes


I did that, still didn't work for me. All the polygons are warped, corrpted and 98% black I'm using the 1.02 drivers though, so I think I might go back to 1.01 or earlier later tonight and see...

Surpisingly, it works OK at work on one of those intergrated Intel video card chipsets.

I think it won't run on matrox cards because it's an ATI leaked version

[CaineTanathos]

yeah got weird r200 errors

it does work on my GF3 Ti200 , however pretty slow
with lots of errors

[P5ycho]

The r_useParhelia or r_defaultGL settings didn't work either. but if you look at the premature state of the demo, this could be expected.

[DosFreak]

Odd, the .cfg sets NV20 to "1" even tho I'm using it on an 9700. What's REALLY odd is that the qconsole.log (enabled by using logfile-1) reports that it's actually using R200..so it recognizes the Radeon.. Hmmmmm.....

Yeah, the demo seems to work fine on

GF2 (all ver's even MX)
GF3
GF4
Radeon 9700

That's all I know so far.


Doom v0.0.2 Benchmarks

No Ansio No AA

320X240 =62.6
400X300 =62.4
512X384 =62.3
640X480 =60.6
800X600 =53.5
1024X768 =42.0
1152X768 =36.4
1280X1024=31.9
1600X1200=31.2

16x Ansio
320X240 =62.5
400X300 =62.4
512X384 =61.8
640X480 =59.1
800X600 =51.0
1024X768 =39.7
1152X768 =34.6
1280X1024=31.4
1600X1200=31.2

6X AA

320X240 =51.1
400X300 =44.5
512X384 =34.6
640X480 =31.6
800X600 =31.3
1024X768 =31.2
1152X768 =31.2
1280X1024=31.2
1600X1200=31.2

Monitor =Sony E500 21"
Speakers =Klipsch ProMedia 5.1 THX Certified 6 piece Personal Audio System
Mouse =Microsoft Intellimouse Optical SE (PS2)
Joystick =Microsoft Precision Pro (USB1)
Gamepad =Logitech Wingman Rumplepad (USB1)
Keyboard =Microsoft Office Keyboard USB & PS/2 v1.0a (PS2)
Case =Coolermaster ATCS-110 w/Enermax EG651P 550W PSU w/ Variable Fan
Motherboard=Abit KX7-333R Bios B6
Processor =AMD Athlon XP 2000 @1666mhz 133X12.5
Cooling =Alpha PAL8045
Memory =Corsair 512MB XMS3200 DDR CAS2 (2 512mb DIMMS=1GB)
Video =ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Retail Core=324mhz Memory=310.50Mhz
Floppy =3.5"

MOBO CONTROLLER DMA/100
PMIDE1/Maxtor L080J4 80GB @ DMA/133 (OS)
PSIDE1/LiteOn 48x12x48x CDRW @ DMA/33
SMIDE2/Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1612 @ DMA/33
SSIDE2/LiteOn 48x12x48x CDRW @ DMA/33

HPT372 CONTROLLER DMA/133 Bios v2.32
PMIDE3/Western Digital 120GB 00JB-75CRA0 @DMA/100 8MB CACHE (GAMES)
SSIDE3/Western Digital 120GB 00JB-75CRA0 @DMA/100 8MB CACHE (BACKUP/VPC/VMWARE IMAGES)
SMIDE4/Western Digital 120GB 00JB-75CRA0 @DMA/100 8MB CACHE (IMAGES1)
SSIDE4/Western Digital 120GB 00JB-75CRA0 @DMA/100 8MB CACHE (IMAGES2)

PCI SLOTS
PCI1/EMPTY (currenty filled by USB1 extension)
PCI2/Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum
PCI3/Generic NEC USB2 Card
PCI4/Intel Pro/1000 MT Desktop NIC
PCI5/Linksys Wireless PCI Card WMP11
PCI6/EMPTY

USB DEVICES
Asoka Powerline ADM8511 FastEthernet (USB1)
ME-320U2 3.5"/5.25" External Enclosure IDE to USB 2.0 (External Backup)
ME-320 USB2/IEE394 (Work/Home Transfer)
HP ScanJet 4470c (USB1)

Windows 98SE/NT4 Workstation/2000 Advanced Server Server slipstreamed SP3/XP Pro SP1 (2000 Main OS)
Catalyst 2.3 Drivers
DirectX 8.1b Build 4.08.01.0901 /Windows 2000
Directx 8.1 Build 810 /Windows XP
Via 4.43 4-in-1

[CaineTanathos]

god damn Carmack, you #$%^

[DosFreak]

Hmmm, try copying your Q3 .cfg into the Doom directory. rename the .cfg to the Doomconfig.cfg.

Oh, you'll also have to cut and paste the BIND keys from the Doom.cfg into the Quake.cfg (Binding keys in Doom are different from Quake).

This sped up resolution switching on my 9700 for me...haven't investigated further.

[K6-III]

Originally posted by CaineTanathos
god damn Carmack, you #$%^

Actually, CARMACK is the MAN!!!!

https://www.armadilloaerospace.com

Fighting for humanity's access to space...

[CaineTanathos]

I think doom3 doesn't recognize the parhelia

[UberLord]

Didn't JC say that he wouldn't write any specific code for the P. until Matrox wrote a high performance OpenGL driver?

The presence of r_useParhelia in the .cfg file suggests that either

1) Matrox have written a high performance OpenGL driver (and break years of Matrox OpenGL tradition - lol)
2) JC decided to write custom code anyways

So even if it doesn't work now, I'm highly confident it will be playable on the Parhelias when the full game comes out

I'm just gutted that I can get a "preview" now :/ Ah well

[DGhost]

for those having problems with it on the Parhelia, i would suggest making sure gigacolor is disabled... that being said i have not tried it on mine so i can't confirm anything with it...

Uberlord, like has been stated this was the E3 demo build... any presence of Parhelia code would have been done before he made that statement about writing a custom driver for it... for the time being it may simply be setting up the standard code path with modifications to the code so it can take advantage of the 4 texture units, and some of the other features it does offer...

AFAIK, Matrox has been declining to give out specifications for MGA_fragment_shader because it wasn't finalized yet... except that as of recent they had it finalized but not a couple other extensions that it required... so again, i highly doubt that it has fragment shader code in it, and if it does it may not work correctly...