Official Doom3 PC requirements released today!

[Arsynic]

Okay, just for giggles, how would these respective rigs run Doom 3?

1st rig:
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ "Barton"
1GB PC2700
40GB 7200RPM HDD (System)
40GBx2 RAID0 (Apps)
Powercolor Radeon 9800SE 128MB

2nd rig:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8E "Prescott" @ 3GHz
512MB PC3200
80GB SATA HDD
Sapphire Radeon 9600

 

[Fuchs]

Well, from past experience it seems best to have at least twice the requirements for most new games...hehe

I have a ti4600 right now, and I know before getting this game I will be upgrading. The TI was a great card and ALMOST lasted 3 years...now I'm going in for the 6800GT

Pheew..

Now all I need is a Raptor drive to play it on 😉

 

[LordPhoenix]

Originally posted by: jim1976

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Just to irritate everyone, I'm going to try running it on my P3-733/512MB/gF4MX. 😉

- M4H

My 2nd rig (P3 500Mhz 256ram GF2GTS) will crash you anytime... 😀

My 3rd rig (P3 500Mhz 128ram 4Mb intel integrated) will crush YOU anytime 🙂

 

[amdguy]

do you guys think there will be relationship breakups and divorces from DOOM III?

 

[alexruiz]

Originally posted by: Rollo
That article is nonsense, a newspaper article for the EMachine crowd.

Wrong, the many fans that own an eMachines M68xx laptop are hardware savvy 😀

 

[Fuchs]

Originally posted by: amdguy
do you guys think there will be relationship breakups and divorces from DOOM III?

Not sure, but my sex life will go down from once a month to prolly once every six months...heheh

 

[soulflyfan]

I plan on knuckledusting everone I see in the head screaming "Die. cacodemon whore!!!", so I'll still be more stable than any of my relationships

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: soulflyfan
I plan on knuckledusting everone I see in the head screaming "Die. cacodemon whore!!!", so I'll still be more stable than any of my relationships

Considering you would physically assault someone over such a trivial thing, I'd speculate unless you are posting from a max security facility that you already lost the "more stable than your relationships" contest 😛

 

[Regs]

I beat the requirements, but now I must beat the game.

 

[dmw16]

Im getting about 40fps @ 1152x864 in the Doom3 alpha if that helps anyone figure out how their system will do (my specs are below).
-doug

 

[JackBurton]

Man, I can't wait to run Doom3 on my 8500. I'm sure it will run smooth........at 640x480 with no details. 🙁

 

[klah]

Ban Doom 3!!!11

To: U.S. Congress

STOP THE UNHOLY RELEASE OF DOOM 3

Doom 3 will contain satanistic sympols witch our precious youth will see! Some claims that they look more forward to doom 3 than the second coming of Jesus Christ. The madness and violence must stop NOW! Don't let ID Software ever release doom 3 or it won't be long before we'll have a youth full of devil woreshippers and another columbine highschool situation

 

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: klah
Ban Doom 3!!!11

To: U.S. Congress

STOP THE UNHOLY RELEASE OF DOOM 3

Doom 3 will contain satanistic sympols witch our precious youth will see! Some claims that they look more forward to doom 3 than the second coming of Jesus Christ. The madness and violence must stop NOW! Don't let ID Software ever release doom 3 or it won't be long before we'll have a youth full of devil woreshippers and another columbine highschool situation

HA HA HA HA.... NO. I'm not christian so I don't care about the second coming of Jesus. And this game will still rock so who cares?

 

[PinchyCM]

lol, that site was put up as a joke.

 

[Goi]

Originally posted by: CJP
If the Quake 3 engine is anything to go by it'll be hard to overestimate the card you'll need for awhile. My TNT2 Ultra card met the requirements but I didn't get the full impact of the game until a couple of years later when I bought my Geforce 3. Doom 3 will probably be the same.

That's coz newer rendering enhancements came along that increased eye candy at the cost of performance. Stuff like FSAA/AF and much higher resolutions made it pretty much impossible for the then high end Voodoo3s and TNT2s to handle Quake3. Quake3 was supposed to be played at 800x600 or 1024x768 without AA/AF at the time, and my Voodoo3 could easily manage >60FPS with this configuration at the time. 🙂

 

[renierh]

Originally posted by: CRXican

9600XT will get destroyed by Doom 3 LOL!!!!!!

wel, that's one way of justifying your insane 6800/x800 purchase..

they said that when far cry was released too:" you're gonna need at least a radeon 9800 Pro", even whtn the system req's said otherwise.

i play farcry at 1280, full eye candy (everything on high, 16 x) very, very smooth with my non OC'd 9600xt.

unless you are more interested in benchmark then in a great gaming experience, i think buying a $ 300+
vga card is absolute nonsense. by the time you REALLY notice the difference, there will be new mainstream cards kicking the former top cards asses for half the price.

i choose to pay for the hardware, not for the development costs and the "top-of-the-line paranoia"

i bet doom 3 will run great on my rig:

p4 3.0c
1024 mb pc3200
asus p4c800
asus 9600xt
160 gb sata maxtor

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: klah
Ban Doom 3!!!11

To: U.S. Congress

STOP THE UNHOLY RELEASE OF DOOM 3

Doom 3 will contain satanistic sympols witch our precious youth will see! Some claims that they look more forward to doom 3 than the second coming of Jesus Christ. The madness and violence must stop NOW! Don't let ID Software ever release doom 3 or it won't be long before we'll have a youth full of devil woreshippers and another columbine highschool situation

My response as Get A. Life:

You people need to stop trying to decide what is acceptable for others to view. Remember the 1st Amendment? Separation of church and state? If you don't want your kids to play this, don't let them? What's next? Stop the release of Playboy? Close all taverns? Outlaw gambling? There are a lot of things kids shouldn't do, quit trying to shirk your responsibility as parents by legislating morality. I am a college educated parent myself, your petition sickens me.

 

[Pocatello]

Doom III has nothing to worry about, the media and parents are still blaming the original Doom for all the violence in the world.