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DOOM3 Half Life troubles
« on: December 29, 2004, 09:51:22 AM »
Okay I got both of these games for x-mas, and ive  had nuttin but trouble. First off, I have a Dell Insspiron 5100, 2.4GHZ P4, 512MB SDDRAM, 40gb HD, Mobility RADEON 7500. I installed both games. Doom 3 ran good. Half Life 2 ran, but none of the characters displayed any graphics at all. they were just black blobs. I checked all  my system properties and my drivers were 2 years old. I updated my drivers from dell, and the graphics got much better, but still sucked. I then found a Mod for my card that would allow me to run CATALYST 4.12. The graphics for HALF LIFE 2 are awesome, HALO is awesome, but when i run DOOM3 (which ran good before) It runs like a slide show. I have done disk clean, ive dafragmented, i have the latest graphics driver, all my 3D setting are set to performance mode, I just cant figure this out. My driver for my cd rom (Samsung SN-324B) is two years old, but i cant find any drivers for this model. ALright guys and gals.........theres my brain bender. Can anyone  help?

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Re: DOOM3 Half Life troubles
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2004, 01:25:58 PM »
Well, what kind of video card do you have? Does it meet the requirements of BOTH video cards?

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Re: DOOM3 Half Life troubles
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2004, 06:21:41 AM »
I have a mobility Radeon 7500. its a directx7 card, but i have directx9 installed. and yes, it meats the criteria for both games. and it worked well with Doom3 before ii installed the newer catalyst drivers.

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Re: DOOM3 Half Life troubles
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2004, 08:40:28 AM »
Well, that might be your problem right there.... If you have a direct X 7 card, then I'm not so sure that upgrading to Direct X 9 was such a good idea...

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    Re: DOOM3 Half Life troubles
    « Reply #4 on: December 31, 2004, 05:37:16 PM »
    DOOM3 is pretty resource intesive. Lower all of its graphics settings and close down other uneeded programs.

    I've used DirectX 9 on a DirectX 7 card before I think...
    « Last Edit: December 31, 2004, 05:37:39 PM by Neil »