Doom 3 Help

[JoshA56]

I just installed Doom 3 without any problems. I ran Doom 3 through Terminal, the screen went black for 2 seconds, and went back to Terminal. Here's what it said:
WARNING: vertex array range in virtual memory (SLOW)
signal caught: Segmentation fault
si_code 1
Trying to exit gracefully..
Shutting down sound hardware
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()

[Lindy]

If you've been running a KDE session the one thing I've noticed is that artsd will keep games from running, or running without sound. Run top and get the pid number for artsd and kill the process, or use KSysGard and do the same, and see if that has any effect.

[Dies]

What kind of hardware are you trying to run this on?

[JoshA56]

Hardware as in video card? XGI Volari v5
Hardware as in computer? Desktop computer

[Dies]

Hardware as in video card? XGI Volari v5
Hardware as in computer? Desktop computer

Yes, hardware. As in Motherboard, CPU, Video Card, Amount of RAM, etc.

That sounds like integrated video, is it?

If it is, you shouldn't really expect Doom3 to run well or at all on it.

Here's the minimum requirements, which means that for a decent experience you'll want to be way, way above that:

• A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500.
• 384 megabytes of memory.
• Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
• An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.

[JoshA56]

I meet every requirement except for the last one. I have an XGI Volari 128mb video card that I bought about a month ago. It ran fine with Windows. Every game ran fine with windows.

[Dies]

Right, maybe because they're designed for Windows.

But if your hardware was able to push the game on Windows then it *should* be able to run in Linux, I wouldn't just give up on it. But expect it to run a little slower, partly because there is more detail when running Doom in Linux than Windows.

Try googling for your error yet?

http://www.google.com/search?q=WARNING%3A+vertex+array+range+in+virtual+ memory+%28SLOW%29&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Loads of hits........

[Thetargos]

Are you even able to run anything OpenGL related with that card in Linux? I heard that they were going to make the drivers for these cards Open Source, but never knew if it was indeed done or not... Weren't these the successors of the PowerVRs?