DOOM III Can you.....

[Toxic_Tweekie]

When this baby comes out, not soon enough, will your OS handle it. Will you have to upgrade? Or, will you have to get a whole new system. I'm taking the latter. Because it gonna be a great game and it's a **** good excuse. The more PC's you have the better!!!

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Depends on how tight the coding is! If its like most of the newer games you will need the fastest cpu available. Its a joke how sloppy these programmers are!

[grimfandango]

WHEn doom 3 comes out you and you wan to play it you will need a fast CPU/a very powerful video card..

AS for OS I think it work on 98/xp

[iceblue]

hmm.. u think itll be too much for a pentium3?

[grimfandango]

Originally posted by iceblue
hmm.. u think itll be too much for a pentium3?

tooo much!!

it wont run on a p3 450-700mhz!!


I got a 450mhz!

[Bigjakkstaffa]

P3's go up to 1.4ghz now, so depending on what chip you have and the rest of your system,as long as its a high end chip, you should be okay on a P3 system id have thought

--Jakk

[Optimus Prime]

you know, if those damned coders spent more time coding and less time eating pizza and drinking beer we could run morrowind on a 700mhz machine full details.

but OHH NOOOOO they have a 'silent' contract with hardware developers, no one says anything its just like:

'well, if we dont code good then they'll have to buy hardware'

'if they buy our hardware we'll make more money'

oh fantastic :|

look at the play station if you disagree with me, that CONSOLE was out for 5 years before it was scrapped, it kept on getting updated, look at the original wipeout graphics and a fairly 'new' playstation game. if programmers had the will to do this, we would win in the 'CONSOLES ARE BETTER THAN PC'S COS WERE NOOBS!' argument.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

I totally agree optimus prime. And consels are proof all of them are. I mean they prove that you can have limited Hardare and no upgrades but yet still keep pumping out the good games and graphics. The sony PSX is a good point, look how weak the Hardware is in it! And the Xbox is a P3 700mhz for crying out loud and look at the games.

[Mutant_Donkey]

whats the resolution of a TV ? 320*240 ?

[JuNacy]

I remember reading John Carmack saying that the Xbox is the only console that can handle Doom 3. Although it won't look quite as sharp as its PC counterpart, it's quite an amazing feat if you think about it.

[Bizkitkid2001]

DOOM 3 will be able to run on a 800MHz G3 mac with a geforce 3.
It will also run on a 1.2GHz pentium3 with a geforce 3.

[Kurylo]

I think anything more than (and including) a P3-700MHz (+) and GF3 (+) could run this game smoothly.
Don't be so messy with Doom3. It looks so great because it actively uses BUMP MAPPING, and the quantity of the polygons isn't too much. So, I think the CPU may not be the latest among Intel-compatibles.

[Joe Bronie]

Well, it's all speculation at this point. It's easy to say that it could run on setup A or setup B smoothly, but no one's going to know until it's released. Sure, Carmack could say that it should run smoothly on this setup and what not, but I want to see it for myself.

[Bizkitkid2001]

I know I'm right because I've seen it in action running on the two systems I listed above.

When they released the Geforce 3 in 2001 they were running it in a Mac and PC with the same speeds as above. And too show off its power they ran a little demo of doom 3 on it. That is how I know it WILL run on the setups I listed above.

[Joe Bronie]

I see your point but those were only demos, not the completed game. Hell, they even ran Doom 3 demos on the Xbox as well, and it ran pretty smooth. So it's hard to say for sure if it will really run as well as it should on those setups. I mean, if it ran the Xbox, it should run good on any setup similar to what the Xbox has and stronger. But things don't always work out that way. That's why I reserve my judgement until the game is released. I'm not saying that it won't run smoothly on those setups, not at all, I just want to reserve my judgement until I see the finished product.