I am worried about my 9700Pro's performance in DOOM III

[amdguy]

Will i be able to play this game smoothly using a resolution of 1280X1024 smoothly with most of the eye candy turned on to near-max?

i am worried...

 

[jpeyton]

check hardocp

 

[DaveSimmons]

HardOCP says no. 9800XT at 1024x768 medium quality is only 50 fps.

 

[amdguy]

i did...can't figure it out

 

[amdguy]

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[Lonyo]

LCD?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: amdguy
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Well, you might get 1280x1024 low quality at 30-40 fps, up to you whether you can live with that.

I assume you have an LCD so you have a fixed res. One of the consequences of that choice is needing to either spend more on video cards to support your fixed res or to put up with image scaling and use a lower resolution.

 

[amdguy]

yeah samsung 12ms LCD

i dunno what to do...i can sell the AIW and get any of ATI cards at 50% discount since my friend works there. But the X800XT PE is soo freaking out of stock that its not funny

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: amdguy
yeah samsung 12ms LCD

i dunno what to do...i can sell the AIW and get any of ATI cards at 50% discount since my friend works there. But the X800XT PE is soo freaking out of stock that its not funny

Then wait till its SOOOO not out of stock

 

[LukFilm]

I hope 9800 Pro at 425/365 can run this at 1280x1024 medium details fine.

 

[Fuchs]

or buy an Nvidia GT or Ultra

 

[amdguy]

nah...if ATi can pull off some nice trick like a driver optimization, i'll probly get one of their card since its at 50% off...

i don't have CDN$800 on a video card lol

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: LukFilm
I hope 9800 Pro at 425/365 can run this at 1280x1024 medium details fine.

I hoping for 12x10 high details........

 

[So]

Originally posted by: biostud666

Originally posted by: LukFilm
I hope 9800 Pro at 425/365 can run this at 1280x1024 medium details fine.

I hoping for 12x10 high details........

And I'm hoping for the second coming of Jesus in my dryer. Got any tips?

 

[amdguy]

oh man..this is funny

 

[hailtothekang]

Hey, just read the hardocp article:

"For those of you that think you are not going to have the hardware that you need to play DOOM 3, the fact of the matter is that many of you will be just fine, although an upgrade may still be in your future. As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience. Even a subtle jump to an AMD 2500+ with a GeForce 3 video card that is two years old will deliver a solid gaming experience that will let you enjoy the game the way id Software designed it to be. That fact alone should let many of you know that you will not be left behind in experiencing DOOM 3."

Your listed system is a monster compared to what they were playing it on. I wouldnt sweat it.

Just my $.02

 

[Safeway]

hailtothekangaroo is right.

 

[hailtothekang]

Thanks safeway...aroo?

 

[Goi]

Why not wait for the actual game to ship before making the decision?

 

[dmw16]

Not a chance, sorry. Esspecially not at high detail. This is why I dont want an LCD.

 

[howdyduty]

For Doom III, go with the best performance you can afford. I'd say the 9700 would perform ok at moderate settings at 1024x. If you must have better, shell out for the newer hardware. Let us know what you go with.

 

[Dman877]

Wasn't doom3 originally intended to run well on a gf3? you definitely will NOT be able to run it at 12x10 with anthing close to high settings.

 

[Xernex]

Big deal if you have to scale it down to 1024x768, my hitachi 16ms screen scales down to 1024x768 from its native 1280 res extremely well with no real loss of image quality in games. Only on the desktop do I notice it. Surely your Samsung would be just as good a scaler if not better?