Increase your FPS in DOOM3

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On 8/6/2004 12:47 PM Tommy Sundstrøm brightened our day with:

>Open the .pk4 files with winzip, extract them with full pathname inside
>.\doom3\base dir
>Rename the pk4 files or delete them (if u have space I recommend renaming
>them)
>This increased my FPS by 20. So now I get about 40 - 60 fps in firefights.
>
>The downside to this is that the game wont work in MP.
>But the rename the pk4 files back, and move the other files to ie temp
>inside base dir.
>
>
>
Not according to Duffy. He says this is a bogus tweak that will only
increase load times.
Your imagining things.
I've heard this one with every id engine game that has pak files, and
its always been wrong.

--
The Brain From Planet Arous (1958):
"Bad alien Gor takes over scientist Steve's brain; good alien Vol takes over Steve's dog's brain."

Steve [Inglo]

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Tommy Sundstrøm wrote:
> Inglo wrote:
>
>> Your imagining things.
>
> My fps counter shows more fps when gaming.

You could be right Inglo.
Tested with a earlier save game where there was a lot of light and movement.
NO increase there.
It seems the level Im on now dont require a so much from my gfx card, thats
why it show 20fps more.
Oh well, had to give it a try.

--

/t

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Tommy Sundstrøm wrote:
> Open the .pk4 files with winzip, extract them with full pathname inside
> .\doom3\base dir
> Rename the pk4 files or delete them (if u have space I recommend renaming
> them)
> This increased my FPS by 20. So now I get about 40 - 60 fps in firefights.
>
> The downside to this is that the game wont work in MP.
> But the rename the pk4 files back, and move the other files to ie temp
> inside base dir.
>

Well since we're on the topic of getting more fps in doom3, if you use
an nvidia card make sure you grab the 61.77 drivers. They give a
definite speed increase in this game (Even on my pos fx5200).

-sTiVen
http://www.planetquake.com/sgquake

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 21:47:55 +0200, "Tommy Sundstrøm" <tommy@h-nett.no> wrote:

>The downside to this is that the game wont work in MP.
>But the rename the pk4 files back, and move the other files to ie temp
>inside base dir.

Moving files back into the pak will make it have a different crc than the
original paks on the cd. Guess what? No pure servers for you!