my friend got Doom3 for xmas

[SWScorch]

So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.

I went down to his house to play it, and it was literally painful. I would estimate he was getting 3-4 fps. And yet somehow he has almost finished the game. I got a headache and achey eyes after playing for 5 minutes, but somehow he has been coping with single-digit framerates and playing it hours at a time. He's hardcore yo. And he needs to upgrade.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.

I went down to his house to play it, and it was literally painful. I would estimate he was getting 3-4 fps. And yet somehow he has almost finished the game. I got a headache and achey eyes after playing for 5 minutes, but somehow he has been coping with single-digit framerates and playing it hours at a time. He's hardcore yo. And he needs to upgrade.

This is the part where you would your friend's computer, douse it with gasoline, throw it out the window and burn it at the stake.

 

[Frew]

Originally posted by: RMSistight

Originally posted by: SWScorch
So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.

I went down to his house to play it, and it was literally painful. I would estimate he was getting 3-4 fps. And yet somehow he has almost finished the game. I got a headache and achey eyes after playing for 5 minutes, but somehow he has been coping with single-digit framerates and playing it hours at a time. He's hardcore yo. And he needs to upgrade.

This is the part where you would your friend's computer, douse it with gasoline, throw it out the window and burn it at the stake.

What are you talking about? That is still a nice machine.

 

[speed01]

yo?

Speed

 

[AdamSnow]

No, he meant burn the copy of Doom3... that game sucks!

 

[Modeps]

It's cool when people check minimum requirements before buying games.

 

[CraigRT]

definitely not a bad machine, just a horrible garbage game that runs slow on everything..

 

[SWScorch]

oh yeah, he also runs Windows 98 but bought a copy of XP just to play D3.... XP nearly choked too

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: LeadFrog

Originally posted by: RMSistight

Originally posted by: SWScorch
So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.

I went down to his house to play it, and it was literally painful. I would estimate he was getting 3-4 fps. And yet somehow he has almost finished the game. I got a headache and achey eyes after playing for 5 minutes, but somehow he has been coping with single-digit framerates and playing it hours at a time. He's hardcore yo. And he needs to upgrade.

This is the part where you would your friend's computer, douse it with gasoline, throw it out the window and burn it at the stake.

What are you talking about? That is still a nice machine.

Maybe for playing games 2-3 years ago. But for Doom 3, no.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
definitely not a bad machine, just a horrible garbage game that runs slow on everything..

It runs fine on my system. A64/512MB PC3200/ATI Radeon 9800NP.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
No, he meant burn the copy of Doom3... that game sucks!

It's ok..while the machine is burning, the game is still inside.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: CraigRT
definitely not a bad machine, just a horrible garbage game that runs slow on everything..

It runs fine on my system. A64/512MB PC3200/ATI Radeon 9800NP.

ok i was being sarcastic, but the fact is, there are games out there which are new, that would run FINE on a system like that.

Call of Duty united offensive works perfectly on my 3rd PC.. 1.33 Athlon, Ti200.

 

[SWScorch]

His machine actually does play most newerish games ok. At least he doesn't have a Voodoo3 anymore. We both had those cards for years, and they played everything up until last year.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: CraigRT
definitely not a bad machine, just a horrible garbage game that runs slow on everything..

It runs fine on my system. A64/512MB PC3200/ATI Radeon 9800NP.

Dude, you have an Athlon 64....bad ass!

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.

I went down to his house to play it, and it was literally painful. I would estimate he was getting 3-4 fps. And yet somehow he has almost finished the game. I got a headache and achey eyes after playing for 5 minutes, but somehow he has been coping with single-digit framerates and playing it hours at a time. He's hardcore yo. And he needs to upgrade. Please MTV... Pimp my friend's 'puter!!

Fixed it for ya!

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: Modeps
It's cool when people check minimum requirements before buying games.

This is true. HOWEVER, it's always best to have a machine that ALWAYS (I'm always upgrading my system every year or year and a half) exceed the minimum requirements.

This way, you never need to look at the minimum requirements....just install.

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer

Originally posted by: SWScorch
So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.

I went down to his house to play it, and it was literally painful. I would estimate he was getting 3-4 fps. And yet somehow he has almost finished the game. I got a headache and achey eyes after playing for 5 minutes, but somehow he has been coping with single-digit framerates and playing it hours at a time. He's hardcore yo. And he needs to upgrade. Please MTV... Pimp my friend's 'puter!!

Fixed it for ya!

LOL...now that is a kick ass idea! PLEASE MTV! PIMP MY COMPUTER! LMAO

 

[Tremulant]

i told u i was hardcore.

 

[ReiAyanami]

some site ran doom3 on a voodoo2. totally fixed the whole lighting problem

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
So my friend, who games a lot more than I do, got Doom3 for Christmas. All is well and good, except his computer is older than mine. He has a Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 sitting in an Asus A7V (the original!) with 384MB of SDRAM (not DDR!) and a GeFoce 3 Ti500.
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eh my brother has almost the same computer ( AthlonXP 1.4GHz A7V133 and 1024MB SDRAM GF3Ti200)
and Doom3 played fine, all hes got to do is jack up the ram

 

[RMSistight]

Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
some site ran doom3 on a voodoo2. totally fixed the whole lighting problem

LOL.

 

[MiranoPoncho]

I can run doom 3, abiet lowest of low quality at low resolution on my rig. hehe celly 1.33, 256mb pc166 and a geforce 4mx420, pci . srill getting bout 25 fps, but hey! under specs and proud of it!