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Old 08-13-2004, 10:01 AM   #1
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Will my windows pc run doom 3?

Will my windows pc run doom 3?
athlon xp 2000+ OCed to 1.75 ghz
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256mb pc2700 cas 2.5 ram
powercolor radeon 9200se 128mb DDR non-overclocked
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Old 08-13-2004, 10:16 AM   #2
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The Radeon 9200 SE seems to be holding up the performance, but whether it will run, I'm sure it will...probably not all that well though. Looking at your RAM, it's below minimal requirement.

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Old 08-13-2004, 10:35 AM   #3
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Yep, you video card and RAM will be the weak spots. Everything else looks fine.

What O/S are you running, btw?
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I know the 9200SE will work (I talked to someone who is running his atlow/med @ 640x480) but I don't know if Doom 3 will let you run it with only 256MB RAM.
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...I don't know if Doom 3 will let you run it with only 256MB RAM.
It will. My friend runs it, though his system is noticibly laggy.

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you need windows xp to run it, but i'm assuming that's what you have..
your memory is below the minimum requirements, and the graphics card is borderline.

bottom line, it will probably run on the lowest settings... but it will be choppy.
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I'm running it fairly decently on a 9200, though I do have 1GB of RAM to help, so I'm not sure. Good luck though!
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Im using windows ME. My res is 1152x854 at the highest color settings.
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Old 08-16-2004, 05:35 PM   #9
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I don't believe doom 3 will play at all on WinME, It says win2k and XP on the box. I would at least upgrade your ram to around 512 and upgrade your OS to XP or 2000. I'm running 800x600 on a Geforce 4 Ti at medium with everyting on with no hiccups at all, so you should be able to run it about that too since you have a DX9 card.

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Old 08-18-2004, 03:28 PM   #10
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According to the Doom 3 requirements the ram should be 384 mb, minimum.
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