Goodbye Stutter! (The advantages of tweaking games)
My friend just recently bought Doom 3 and I jumped in his cafe to relive those moments blasting fireballing-hurling imps and zombified soldiers. Much to my dismay however, the game stuttered. The FPS was fine, but there was something definitely wrong with the eye-wrenching frames.
I went to Tweakguides.com, studied Koroush Ghazi’s Doom 3 Tweak Guide and made the following Autoexec.cfg for my friend:
image_cacheMinK 3686
image_useCache 1
image_cacheMegs 384
image_usePrecompressedTextures 1
image_useCompression 1
image_preload 1
image_useNormalCompression 2
r_useCachedDynamicModels 1
r_useConstantMaterials 1
r_useStateCaching 1
cm_backFaceCull 1
r_useShadowProjectedCull 1
r_orderIndexes 1
r_usePortals 1
com_purgeAll 1
r_skipMegaTexture 1
image_anisotropy 1
r_vertexBufferMegs 64
r_useShadowCulling 1
r_useTurboShadow 1
g_showPlayerShadow 0
g_bloodEffects 0
image_downSizeLimit 512
s_clipVolumes 0
After that we gave it a go, and voila! Smooth gameplay! Well his machine is exactly not top-of-the-line so we lowered the ingame setting here and there. But overall: the guide is very effective.
Take note that the list above is only a few of the many found in that site’s tweak guides and that they are set to what I believe is optimal for my friend’s PC. For your own settings, please visit the site and study the guide there.
Graphics and who needs plastic surgery in Toronto: (the effect of playing Doom 3 while my cousin is surfing some of the best and better plastic surgery sites for her homework. 
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He can do with what he has.
This guy? Definitely! Surgery yes, and gotta remove those pellets stuck in his cranium too.
Hopeless.
I mean, look at him. Tsk, should have used the pistol.
