Doom 3 crashing

ok, this is getting annoying, every now and then the game randomly crashes, i dont know why, can anyone help? its so annoying, and in combat times i don't save to often cause i get to caught up into it, so it sucks redoing stuff, shit that game is scary as heck, but anyone know why its crashing? i just built my new comp, amd athlon 2500 1GB (2x512) PC3200 RAM, Radeon 9800 XT

whats wrong? :'(

 

try updating your drivers

 

ok, ya, i believe i have them, all i have to do is go to windows update right???

 

Yeah that should do it.

 

ok, ya got all of them installed but one, i dont think its for my graphics card but ya, maybe u can help me, if i try installing it, it loads, but doesn't install it says this



The following items failed to install. To try installing them again, click Review and install updates, and then click Install Now again.

Marvell network software update released on July 21 2004.



y doesn't it install and waht is it for?

 

if its network stuff you really don't need it unless you are on a network your self.

 

ya i am on a network, got any idea why its not installing??



but doom is still crashing, that didn't work, any other ideas?

 

ok, ill try dling the driver from www.atitech.com and if that doesn't work ill uninstall and reinstall it, does anyone know where the saves are located? so incase i can't choose to not get rid of those when uninstalling ill make a copy of them?

 

ok, i dled it, played it for like 15-20, all was good, so i think that fixed it, but its getting late and im getting to jumpy to play anymore, ill play tommarow when im not tired, damn monster popped out of the stairs and i just lost it, really jumped, so im going to pack a little then go to bed, bye

 

NO.

DO NOT EVER go to Windows Update for drivers.

Go the manufacturer's site.

 

www.ati.com

the 4.79 catalysts have a hotfix for doom 3

 

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

Thats where you download the new beta 4.9 cats that adress Doom3 problems

 

I am having a differant problem. The game will work just fine. I was playing with no crashes for about two hours. THe next day I came back to play it and the game would crash before it even opened. I did an uninstall/reinstall and that fixed the problem. The next day when i went back, Same thing. Since I Bought it last week, I have had to reinstall Doom 3 4 times. Is anyone else having this extreamly annyoing problem?

 

MK,
Please post a new thread regarding your problem so that your problem is the focus of the thread.
Thank you.

 

ok cancel that

I fixed it the problem was daemon tools doesnt work well with doom 3.

guess ill have to play it with the cd in the drive

 

Hi, don't know whether u r still having prob, but if u r I would suggest checking ur RAM (the Dimms and the slots). I had similar problem with Farcry & Painkiller and my first Dimm slot was the problem! Hope this helps

 

I had the same issue myself, Doom would just crash and I'd be back at my desktop. I have since corrected the issue by updating to the latest video drivers. This may not help you however as I have an Asus GeforceFX 5900 and went from Detonator 57.14 to 61.77. Try getting the latest Catalyst drivers if you don't already have them. Otherwise make sure you have the latest motherboard drivers and flash your bios if a new one is available.