Terrible frames in Doom 3

[Worthington]

So, I find myself with some free time lately and I figure it'd be fun to reload Doom 3. It's been awhile since I played it and since then I've upgraded to a 8800GTX. Should be cool to turn everything up and blast some creatures of hell, right?... Mmm, not so much.

Installed the game and loaded the latest patch (1.3.1 I believe it was). Hit Widescreegamingforums since I have a 20WMGX2 and made the ini changes for my 1680x1050 resolution. Fire up the game and notice I'm getting between 9-12 fps per second. Pretty underwhelming. So, I knock things down a bit (from Ultra to just high, and 8aa to 4aa) with zero change. Still hovering around 10fps.

Whatever is going on is limited to Doom 3, or at least OpenGL games. I play BF2 and 2142 (among others) frequently and cap out at my V-Sync imposed 60fps limit.. and thats with much higher settings then a measely 4aa. The BF titles are D3D though. I don't really want to install Quake 4 just to troubleshoot Doom 3 however. So if anyone has any insight or ideas as to what the issue could be I'm all ears. My rig (see sig) is more then enough to plow through the game but nothing I change seems to make a difference. I deleted the ini settings I added for my widescreen but still got terrible frames. Even at 12x10 and 4aa I get 10 fps when moving around. If I stare at the cealing it jumps to the 40s, but thats not really very fun.

any ideas?

ps. I am using the current XP32 drivers for my 8800GTX (158.22).

 

[gorcorps]

Did you ever try the game w/out the patch?

 

[Skacer]

I would google for Doom3 and 8800.

 

[Worthington]

without the patch? No, I didnt. A re-install is easy enough I guess.

To Skacer, yeah I tried that before posting hoping there was some well known issue. No luck though.

 

[Skacer]

http://www.google.com/search?h...+3+%2B8800&btnG=Search

I can't click on any of the links from work.

Check the bottom one because this definitely sounds like a driver issue:

NVIDIA Forums > GeForce 8800 GTS (Win XP) with OpenGL Games
I've tried various drivers for Win XP for the GeForce 8800 GTS series and the latest ... With my ex 7900GTX I was able to play Doom 3 with patch 1.3 and ...

 

[Worthington]

I think I might have found the issue. Doom 3 hates my second monitor. Just for craps and giggles I unattached it in the video settings and fired up Doom again. Immediatly the frames were capping out at 60 during the load sequence and main menu, where before they would waffle between 23 and 25.

I'm gonna create a Nvidia profile for Doom3 and play with the multi-monitor settings. I'd like to get the same effect without actuallly having to remove my monitor in windows. I'm pretty sure there is a multi-monitor perfermance variable in the options for each game profile.