Would more ram help me?

[Gibaholic]

I went out and bought a Geforce FX 5500 graphics card for my computer and installed doom 3, I have it on low , 640 by 480 res with everything off. It runs at like 60 fps when idle, then like 30 to 40 fps in combat. But when I enter a new area itll pause for like 2 or 3 seconds then continue or when I shoot someone for the first time in a map. My computer specs are: AMD sempron 3000+ 2.0 ghz processor, 192 megs of ram. So if I were to buy 512 megs of ram, would it fix those problems?

[Bloodshedder]

Everybody gets "door lag" as far as I know. I get it, and I have 1GB of RAM. But adding more RAM won't hurt anything.

[Gibaholic]

Okay well I am gonna add more ram but, would it increase my fps at all?

[Higher Game]

192 megs of ram is really, really low. Even if it won't up your fps, it should make your computer noticably faster. 512 is a good amount for most people, hardcore gamers usually have 1024, and fans of games like FEAR and Battlefield 2 sometimes have even more!

[Bastet Furry]

I heard that it helps decompressing the pk4 files.
It brought my punny GeForce 3 a boost of 4 fps *g*

[Job]

Bastet Furry said:

I heard that it helps decompressing the pk4 files.
It brought my punny GeForce 3 a boost of 4 fps *g*

I did that once as well, and it made the game less stable. Eventually, I was forced to reinstall.

[Bastet Furry]

Either i am lucky or you have strange hardware.
It never crashed here. o.o

[Amaster]

Yes, more RAM will have a huge impact on "door lag" (heh, I like that phrase). I would recommend going farther that 512 megs if possible though. 1-1.5 gigs should almost completely eliminate this type of behavior altogether.

[Gibaholic]

I plan on getting a gig of ram, should help my quake 4 out too.