Doom 3 is FASTER on P4 than A64!!!!!!!!

[EdzAviator]

I have red the link here in the forum yesterday.....Is this TRUE!!!!????

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/doom3-cpu.html

What do you guyz think of this????? It seems that the P4 is BETTER than the A64 after all....It shows in the Real Game Play Benchmark.....

Any Comments?? Or Proof and Explainations whether to get an A64 or P4 w/ HT?????

 

[ribbon13]

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/pentium4-600/index.x?pg=6

 

[ribbon13]

http://www.digital-daily.com/cpu/athlon64fx-p4ee/index04.htm
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/print_content.asp?id=a644000
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1767011,00.asp

in the end, who cares? Doom3 sucks

 

[imported_Kensai]

That's uh, old. As per the techreport.com 's review. AMD still rules the gaming scene.

 

[Hyperlite]

blah blah blah thats soo old its not relevant anymore...

 

[BW86]

repost

 

[UzairH]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
http://www.digital-daily.com/cpu/athlon64fx-p4ee/index04.htm
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/print_content.asp?id=a644000
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1767011,00.asp

in the end, who cares? Doom3 sucks

While for most people Doom 3 the game might not be very good, Doom 3 the engine is absolutely the best out there right now by a long, long margin. At least until the Unreal 3 engine is released, it is the best. But the point is that in the next 4 to 5 years there will likely a huge number of games based on the Doom3 engine license. Look at Quake 3, even today new games based on its engine are being released. And Unreal when released was better than Q3 but much fewer games used it engine.

So at until you can buy an Athlon64 dual-proc, a P4 with HT will beat an A64 single core in a lot of the upcoming games. And I suspect those games might be mult-threaded too.

 

[Dman877]

What new games are using the Q3 engine? the last game I know of was CoD and thats a couple years old...

 

[Sentential]

Both Quake4, RTCW2, and COD2 will use the Doom3 Engine

 

[housecat]

Doom3 doenst SUCK.

Only a noob would say that. You'd have to have something out against the game.

Its not the best, but I wouldnt say its out of games like Painkillers league.
Its an older style of gameplay.. you know, the kind of gameplay DOOM CREATED

 

[ribbon13]

Not being able to see.... the whole freaking time? Yeah you won't find that in the original Doom. The lighting effect wasn't scary... it just pissed me off. Therefore Doom3 sucks.

The next slew of BioWare's RPGs will be using UnrealEngine3 which is highly SMP optimized. Toledo is going to pwn in next-gen gaming. If the Doom3 is more SMP optimized by then, great. Intel isn't going to be the best either way.

 

[CheesePoofs]

You have to give id some credit, they did make a very nice looking engine. I personally haven't bought Doom3 and don't plan on it, but I will buy Quake 4.

 

[dug777]

when the shadows are cleared away by explosions and you are fighting for your life, what is revealed is very speccy, and any game which is actually VERY scary indeed is a masterpiece IMO.

 

[imported_July]

Yawn, another pissing match.... who cares. Mines faster than yours, neeener neeener

 

[carlosd]

Who cares about doom3 nowadays? Nobody is playing this game anymore.

 

[GprophetB]

Doom 3 did very little for me....

Now WoW CSS and HL2 PoP2, thats a different story

 

[Sexy D]

Too much FX n not enough gameplay ruined Doom III, tbh i loved the old dooms, playin on the network on deathmatch. That owned !

 

[imported_Duran]

there are better games...anyways I don't which is faster as long it plays games at a good resolution

 

[christopherzombie]

The FX-55 is 13 FPS faster in one test. When the P4XE beats AMD, it's ony by 1.5 FPS.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Kensai
That's uh, old. As per the techreport.com 's review. AMD still rules the gaming scene.

 

[Concillian]

Amazing that people who are supposedly interested in the most performance will disregard comments on what a benchmark is actually testing.

I own an A64, but I believe the digit life article's results to be just as true today as the day it was published. I mean did Doom III change since then? All the other articles linked to are just showing a timedemo, and it has already been explained that the timedemos do NOT use as much CPU as when you're actually playing.

I said it in the other thread and I will say it here:
CPU simply does not matter at the resolution and settings most REAL gamers actually use. Get what's cheap.

 

[Acanthus]

Doom 3 was every bit what i expected.

To the people who say its too dark. Its doom, what did you expect? Its not half life, its not counterstrike, its not far cry or wolfenstein or battlefield. Its doom, is the same story, the same plot, the same setting. Its supposed to be dark and scary.

It is the undisputed champion of OGL engines and likely will be until carmacks next generation in ~2008 if not later. To consider it completely irrelevant because you didnt like the gameplay is just childish.

The engine is obviously made for the future with support for enough textures for 512MB cards, multithreading, very advanced physics effects, amazing lighting and shadows, all of which im sure are just a grazing of what the engine is capable of (compare Quake 3 to the latest CoD on the same engine).

There is only one thing i have to say about HL2... LOADING...

People who have actually played the game will know what im talking about. Fanbois that say "OMG HL2 OWNZ" just because its faster on ATi in some charts theyve seen on the internet wont know. (by the way, the game plays great at max settings on a 6600GT @ 1280x1024 with no AA and 2x AF the same for Doom 3 on "high" quality)

I actually delayed getting Doom 3 for fears of wasting my money and picked it up recently cheap at sams'. Im sorry i didnt buy the game sooner, it is great and im thoroughly looking forward to completing the game and getting the expansion.

 

[imported_g33k]

I thoroughly enjoyed doom3 and I will be buying the expansion the day it comes out. Having played both d3 and hl2 I think I spent more time playing d3. Both games were good and yes the load times were numerous on hl2. That was one game that I was glad I had raptors.

 

[andy nowotny]

have you compare their price?