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hey guys, first post here, well 2nd but first real post. anyway, what kind of specs are needed to run doom 3??? i havent been able to find anything on the performance requirements, thnx for your help.
 
Doomworld said:
What sort of system will be required to play Doom 3?

Early indications suggest that the target system for Doom 3 will be a 700 mhz system with 128 megabytes of RAM and a "high-end" video card (assumably GeForce-level or higher). However, these specs are very tentative and will probably change multiple times. There will probably be versions released for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
In an interview on 9/18/00, John Carmack had the following to say about the Doom 3 engine and how fast it will run:

I am spending a huge amount of graphics horsepower to allow the engine to be flexible in ways that game engines have never been before. It is a little scary to drop down from the ultra-high frame rates we are used to with Q3, but I firmly believe that the power of the new engine will enable a whole new level of game content.
I am hoping that the absolute top-of-the-line system available when the game ships will be capable of running it with all features enabled and anti-aliasing on at 60hz, but even the fastest cards of today are going to have to run at fairly low resolutions to get decent frame rates. Many will choose to drop a feature or two to get some speed back, but they still won't be able to get near 60hz.

Remember, the game won't ship for a long time yet, and today's cards will seem a bit quaint by then.
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Note that those specs are incredibly .... inaccurate. Here's a more reasonable estimate:

Alan.Techconnect.dl said:
Recommended by PC Gamer: 2GHz CPU 512 MB Ram Radeon 9800 5-Channel Audio
Supported Graphics Cards: Ge-Force 4 MX Ge-Force 3 Ge-Force 4 Titanium Ge-Force FX (and higher) ATI 8500, 9000 (and higher)
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As for my personal "feel" for the game:
- a 2Ghz CPU
- 512MB DDR
- 1GB to install
- absolute effective minimum GF4Ti/Radeon9500 or better
 
thanks man, im looking for a pc that has at least 3.2 GHz, or i will probably get the AMD athalon 3400 or something along those lines. like ive said before i want the X800 pro. im not sure of the motherboard i want yet but i think i might get an Asus (any suggestions would b very helpful :) ) i want at least a 120 GB hard drive and 1 or 2 gig of RAM, so Doom 3 will run GREAT on this beast of a machine!
 
so Doom 3 will run GREAT on this beast of a machine!
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I wouldnt go that far as saying great heehe ... "very well" is about as much as I would dare guess :D (very well = 1280x1024 everything set to max)
 
Doom 3 i not that good... I finnisht it in 16 hours. They have removed the scen from the alpha demo...
 
Doom 3 I not that good... I finnisht it in 16 hours. They have removed the scen from the alpha demo...
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There was no Alpha demo. That was piracy leak. In general "alpha" and "demo" dont go together :) Now that you've claimed Doom3 wasnt so great... what is a great game?
 
God no... unlimited ammo, insane amount of damage per second and most importantly: infinite rate of fire. The fact that it has almost no range isnt important as i saves ur sorry ass from 80% of the stuff that attacks you when you cant see a damn thing (imps, them spider thingys). For stuff that you need range for, the machinegun or plasma rifle is more than adequate for (hell, the chainsaw works wonders against bosses) :D
 
I read on some tech site that computer equipment sales had risen fairly sharply, I wonder how much of an impact the release of Doom3 has had on this.
 
Probably quite a bit but I dont think this new wave of games has had as much of an impact on sales as it was originally hyped to be remember about half-a-year ago it was common to hear people say "...people buy new computers just for this game....." and beign in computer retail, I'd say it hasnt quite come to that yet .... mostly it has people upgrading stuff to as they realize that their setup that barely handled UT2004/Painkiller is getting owned by FarCry/Doom3.
 
I'm oldschool, I stick with my shotgun :P Sure, it doesn't shoot things from far away, loads slow, and shoots slow -- but I like it! :D
 
If you can play Doom3 SP with just the shotgun I'll be quite impressed :D Heehee I know the one place in Alpha Labs 3 (or was it 4... cant remember) where there are a CRAPLOD of them spider thingies.... :P
 
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