a p2.8ghz system with radeon 9800 will run the game decently. NO system will be able to run it at full effect the way we've seen it in demos, much like farcry. But in time super systems will finally crawl out that can handle the game. You could build a really sweet gaming system for <$1000 by going with an athlon64 3000+ chip and overclocking the hell out of it. Would be equivalent to around a p4 3.2ghz machine, for much much less.

PaRaDoxXx

Australia302 Posts

July 16 2004 07:57 GMT

#22

is this game really going to be worth it?
think abou it
1.shit!!!! loads of money goes into buying this game and all the needed cards etc and this games going to get old like all games soon and this is a starcraft site nt a doom 3 site and i disliked doom 1

?lol meh

NoobSaibot

United States588 Posts

July 16 2004 08:40 GMT

#23

has "iD" ever let you down?

SweeTLemonS[TPR]

11739 Posts

July 16 2004 12:08 GMT

#24

Anyone who disliked DOOM deserves to die a horrible, horrible death. DOOM was the finest FPS of its time, and one of the greatest games ever made. In my opinion, THE greatest ever.

Tacito

Canada66 Posts

July 16 2004 12:23 GMT

#25

Gonna be such an addicting game... the 1v1 multiplayer is supposed to be amazing :D

Million

United States559 Posts

July 16 2004 12:31 GMT

#26

On July 16 2004 21:08 SickofLife wrote:
Anyone who disliked DOOM deserves to die a horrible, horrible death. DOOM was the finest FPS of its time, and one of the greatest games ever made. In my opinion, THE greatest ever.

Nah, Starcraft Broodwar is best gamer ever made... and Doom can only be a distant second. No game is ever near Brood War's league,

SweeTLemonS[TPR]

11739 Posts

July 16 2004 12:36 GMT

#27

It's too hard to compare cross genre. What I should have said is it's the best FPS ever made. (Well, hopefully DOOM 3 will be)

tfeign

United States2980 Posts

July 27 2004 15:30 GMT

#28

Okay guys. I just pre-ordered Doom 3 today. This is actually the first time ever I have pre-ordered a game. My system:

Athlon AMD XP 3000+
Kingston 1GB PC3200 RAM
Radeon 9600 Pro Video Card
120 Maxtor HDD

I think it should be able to handle d3. The only thing that I am contemplating about is the graphics card. Should I update my graphics card to a Radeon 9800 Pro? or should I just stick with the 9600? I really can't decide.

Or what other graphics card should I get?

Whats the difference between the Radeon 9800XT and the Pro version

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

July 27 2004 15:33 GMT

#29

Stick with the 9600 until you can get a significant upgrade instead of just to a 9800. Waiting a few months for prices to drop on the newer generation cards won't hurt.

SpuniasauR

Australia1500 Posts

July 27 2004 15:50 GMT

#30

dude 9600 SHOULD run it fine?!?!?

lol i just upgraded from a nvidia mx420 (rebadged geforce2) to a 9600 so yeh, wtf upgrade to 9800

ToKoreaWithLove

Norway10161 Posts

July 27 2004 16:08 GMT

#31

Don't buy a radon card for doom3. As you might know or not know; gfx card producers sponsor games so they run better on their brand of cards..as it is now nvidia got doom3 and ati got hl2..

Oh and as a side note - did you like the original doom? doom2? Get a piece of the doom remade thingy;

doom remade (torrent)

Basicly it is doom with the same gameplay and everything but in full 3d, with kickass lightning effects and everything the way you remeber. Doom still scares me sometimes:o

doomremake missing wads (torrent)

try it ~~ should keep you busy untill doom3.

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

July 27 2004 16:14 GMT

#32

You have a screenshot or two? I might download it...

tfeign

United States2980 Posts

July 27 2004 16:25 GMT

#33

It downloads at 3 kb/s for me. I dont think I'll have the patience lol

Edit: Now 10kb/s...but still will take 23 hours before completion

tfeign

United States2980 Posts

July 27 2004 16:27 GMT

#34

Oh and the reason why I'm desperate for a new video card is because this game is said to be a graphics hog. I mean, even the best video card available at the moment still cannot handle the graphic intensity of Doom 3.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20040727_052008.html

You need a not yet released 512MB video card to play the game at the highes stettings

Klogon

MURICA15980 Posts

July 27 2004 16:29 GMT

#35

Yeah, even with my 5950, I know it won't be 100% smooth. I'll get some decent frames though.

ToKoreaWithLove

Norway10161 Posts

July 27 2004 20:17 GMT

#36

On July 28 2004 01:14 Klogon wrote:
You have a screenshot or two? I might download it...

#1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5

Excalibur_Z

United States12240 Posts

July 28 2004 02:21 GMT

#37

On July 16 2004 02:56 ToKoreaWithLove wrote:
could not run the beta on my comp so i skip it.

it's gone gold tho. should start hitting the torrent pages in a few days...

hahaha. That wasn't even the beta. That was a leaked alpha which was optimized for a certain hardware configuration used by the demo machines at E3. When it was leaked, didn't the leakers say "DON'T JUDGE THE FINAL GAME'S FRAME RATE BY THIS ALPHA DEMO BECAUSE THE CODE HAS NOT YET BEEN OPTIMIZED."