I really want to play doom 3, yet I only have a 32 bit video card....
think it will work?

It'll suck, but if you have a good processor, over 1gb of ram it won't be THAT bad.

If i'm not mistaken, consumer video cards only display in 32 bit color....however, the texture filtering can be in 64bit on high end cards.. so you should be more concerned about your video cards processing power and amount of ram. what make and model of card do you have?

Brand: ATI, Matrox, NVidia, Intel Integrated?

no

Yeah, do you mean 32 bit video card, or 32MB of memory on the video card?

As asked above what kind of card do you have?

Here is the laptop I want to install it on

Laptop

Looks like a ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500

I'm pretty sure on a low setting and with these tweaks you will be able to run it just fine.

EDIT: Just realized that you need 384MB of RAM.

EDIT 2: Your video card isn't new enough either.

I think you are SOL.

IIRC, the lowest ATI card for Doom 3 is a Radion 8500, and that might be a bit optimistic. Specifically, the game requires a certain level programmable shaders (DX8+ compliant).

I imagine the game experience from that set up, though the processor should have no problem (P4M's typically run a bit faster than the same speed P4s), your memory requirements stink, as does the video RAM, would be terrible, even if it ran.


My son's set up is an 512MB Athlon 2100+ with a GeForce 3 card (considerably better than the Radion 7500), and the game is barely playable at 800x600

I have the exact same card in my Laptop and no it won't run... well it will install and run but it will freeze up once the opening video starts and if you skip... once the game starts and your standing in the base... even with the tweeks mentioned before... so don't buy stay away till you can get a new machine.