Doom 3 16x AA?

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Howdy,

Just a quickie, how many of you out there can play Doom 3 (or RoE, that's what I am playing) on 16x Anti Aliasing? I know its higher than what you would ever need, but I get major FPS slow down on that, and just wondered how many others out there got this? Mainly using a 8800 series card?

I get 60 FPS all the time on 4x and 8x (most of the time) but 16x is a killer!

Just curious thats all!

ta

 

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I am using 16xQAA here and my lowest is 30fps but I am running at 1440x900.

Im running it at 1920x1200, I suppose that makes a diff. I just thought my rig would be able to run this better... its not the newest game after all?

 

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Yes even at that res I guess you should be able to run Doom 3 at 16xAA, afterall, I dont think its that impressive really and dont notice much difference from High and Ultra quality.

What other games can you run at 1920x1200 with 16xAA?

I actually cant think of any other games that allow me to go to 16x tbh? FEAR lets me go to 4x (that runs PERFECTLY on everything high) but all my other games dont go to 16x? Can you think of any, I might have it and give it a try?

 

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It's because ultra quality needs 500mb of video memory according to John Carmack, with 16xAA adding a good deal more at high-end resolutions.

I get the same amount of lags in 16x in High quality as I do in Ultra quality. Actually doesn't make any difference in performance wise from what I can see?

willhub - I got an error on the game, when I had patched D3 to 1.3.1 and then installed RoE. I had to reinstall the 1.3.1 patch and it all worked again.

Don't think it was the same error as that though, but you can give it a go!

 

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I just tried it out with 16xQAA/16xAF with Supersampling, sometimes it was well over 60, lowest I got was 35 when I looked up at that hovering thing at the start.

Hmm Doom 3 is capped at 60fps, you shouldn't get more? And if you are getting great FPS, why am I not? interesting, I must investigate!

cheers for checking though, appreciate it!

 

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K I will give it ago.

To get widescreen, create a "AutoExec.cfg" file in the "base" directory of Doom 3 with the below contents:

set r_mode -1
set r_aspectratio 2
set r_customwidth 1920
set r_customheight 1200

Thats what I have, and its the only way to get widescreen... but I don't think its proper widescreen. It works nonetheless.

r_mode tells doom its a res that is not selectable, the ration option sets it to 16:10 and the other 2 are self explanatory.

 

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Just to add to the above

r_aspectRatio can be set to 0, 1, or 2 (4:3, 16:9, 16:10)

Yep, I didn;t bother witht hat, cos I didn't think he would be interested in the other ratios... but it was worth pointing out actually