doom3 crashing.

[frankenwookie]

I have been playing doom for a bit now, but recently it has been freezing up and crashing quite often. It will bring up what looks like a console screen that says something to affect of game crash due to missing frames. It sounds like it was not loading from the ram maybe?

 

[Wolfy]

Legit or pirated?

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled?(edit: while finding and backing up your save games) Updated your drivers? Have your got overclocked hardware that may be overheating from the strain?

 

[frankenwookie]

No it's legit and I have the expansion also which I thought updated it to V.1.3.
My video card is overclocked with the Catalyst ati-tool, but the temperature has never risen about 65-70 degrees celsius. Maybe I'll try putting it back to it's original settings. I know that I meet the minimum and maximum requirements to run doom at high, minus the 512mb of video ram it asked for to run Ultra. Heres my rig:
A8N32-SLI
AMD 3500+ 2.2gb
ATI X1800GTO 256mg
WD 250gb HDD
2gb Adata Vitesta ram
Artic cooler 64 CPU fan
BenQ DVD combo drive
I had this up and running on my crappy old emachine, which barely met the specs. I was running an aabit x600 video card, 512mb ram and a AMD3200+ S754 processor.

 

[Wolfy]

Try uninstalling and reinstalling the game as well once you save your save games. Possibly your initial installation has or was corrupted and your getting to a part of the game where your missing stuff and it's causing a crash. Of course that's just me guessing but the first thing I do when I come across a game that starts acting up is to reinstall.

 

[frankenwookie]

I was able to figure out the problem. The new catalyst drivers v6.6 were not agreeing with doom3. I unistalled them all together reinstalled the old drivers that came with the video card everything is great now. Thanks.
p.s. I also reinstalled doom and it's expansion.