TheEAR Posted July 14, 2004 Share Posted July 14, 2004 Great news for any gamer DOOM 3 HAS GONE GOLD!!! Bring it on,my systems can take it. Doom 3 should be an incredible game,comming from iD Software there is little doubt it will be awesome.And besides Carmack is THE man when it comes to 3D shooter programming,in a class by himself. Oh yes,in a few days I get my hands Doom 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 WHEE!!!! I knew that it would come... after 3 years it comes!!! I am going to have a blast playing this game - I just hope I finish it before medical school starts on Aug. 20. Bring it! The SVS and my Polks are waiting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Bring it on. All I've got right now is a laptop with a 3ghz p4 and Geforce4togo graphics card. Maybe I can run it in 640x480 with all graphics options turned to the lowest possible values. The new gaming rig will have to wait untill my house is done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenratboy Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 BRING IT ON!!! I have 3 GHz. waiting to go, and a good video card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted July 15, 2004 Author Share Posted July 15, 2004 ---------------- On 7/15/2004 5:00:42 PM kenratboy wrote: BRING IT ON!!! I have 3 GHz. waiting to go, and a good video card. ---------------- What do you call a GOOD video card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 i have the 6800gt which is watercooled to BEYOND ultra speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 Good card pini,the 6800GT's overclock like champs and yes most will best Ultra speeds with ease.Nvidia is back on the block with the 6800GT and Ultra cards. Well I like them both and have them all too,ATI X800 series or Nvidia 6800's are ready to take on two of the best games(quite sure about this)of this year and may Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 bring us fear,suspense and pure gaming joy. Its good to see ATI and Nvidia go at it in a close race.Imagine the poor customers with only one company on top.Competition is GOOD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iXtreme Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 What would one call a good video card? I really think this game will play on anything Geforce 3 or higher, and may play with some options off, on a slightly lesser card. The game will not need all that much horsepower as that would severly limit market coverage of the sales of the game. I have an ASUS 9980 Ultra and that will be WAY more than enough to play this game and games for a while still. Not many people buy super high end cards, and ID has to, and I'm sure has, remembered that during game design. If COD will run at 800 X 600 on my tnt2 ultra in my old machine, this game will run on a 64MB video card with probably most options on to a good quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 all i know is that on game 2 of 3dmark 2003 (the space army scene)... i used to get about 10-35 fps on my 9800pro and now with my 6800gt (w/o oc) i get 45-90.... HUGE DIFFERENCE! Im sure doom3 wont even pose a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Several months ago on one of the hardware sites (AnandTech I think) there were benchmarks done with Doom3. The test machine was a 3.2ghz P4 with the radeon 9800XT and the best NVidia of the day. It could barely run Doom3 at 30fps. I'm thinking the game can still give plenty to chew on even to the best systems we have right now. I'll see if I can find the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonrpayne Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 Hmm I found the article(http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1821&p=21) and it looks like I was off. The super low framerates were with the anti aliasing and resolution turned way up. Looks like I can play this game after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iXtreme Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I finally got around to testing my machine with 3D Mark. I hadn't tweaked anything but ran the test anyway to see the results. It was on my P4 3.0 gig with an Asus 9980 on it. I can't remember the exact number right now but it was close to 16,000. Does that sound good? I'm going to try and find the published results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 with stock 2500+ and stock 9800pro.. i can get 16000 on 2001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted July 22, 2004 Author Share Posted July 22, 2004 ---------------- On 7/20/2004 1:23:26 AM pinipig523 wrote: with stock 2500+ and stock 9800pro.. i can get 16000 on 2001. ---------------- Exactly,when I had my 9800PRO in my second system I got over 16K in 2001SE torqued by an Intel 2.4Ghz/Asus P4G8X/1GB Corsair PC3700 C2 When overclocked my 2.4@3.15Ghz and card boosted a bit I could get around 20K from the 9800Pro.No biggie This at 1024*768 of course But 16K in 2001SE is ok,over 20K is good and over 30K is BIG GUN turf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinipig523 Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 ear, although i could get 16000 on stock settings - even at 2500xp. i have a hard time getting over 19k. i overclocked everything from 2500 to 3700, from stock 9800 to 450/360.... geez. i may just be hitting the limits of my system. oh well... nothing like a brand spanking new 6800 gt to boost my scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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