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Doom 3 system requirements revealed, theme online
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sonycowboy
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We've known it would be pretty stiff for a while, but isn't this a potential obstacle to sales. There are some who are prognosticating sales of over 2-3 million for the PC version. My question is: HOW????
They haven't sold anywhere near that number of high end video cards. No doubt this game will drive many to upgrade as always happens and is the symbiotic relation between the card manufacturers and the PC devs, but I don't see it magically doubling the number of people with high end cards.
Of course, this game will sell well for years...
They haven't sold anywhere near that number of high end video cards. No doubt this game will drive many to upgrade as always happens and is the symbiotic relation between the card manufacturers and the PC devs, but I don't see it magically doubling the number of people with high end cards.
Of course, this game will sell well for years...
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
I'm set. Bring it.
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I have a feeling the VAST majority of PC Gamers out there will not be satisfied with the framerates they achieve on their current systems 
(me included).
(me included).Slo said:
wtf, it's going to page 2 gig onto your HD? That doesn't even make sense. Most peoples paging files wouldn't be that big. It probably means it's a 2 gig minimum install, but realistically once they have a few patches and you download a mod or two your going to be staring at 4 gig of HD space.
Sander said:It's not quite that bad
...but the actual feature-set isn't really that far ahead of a GF1. They are both DX7 cards, yes?
Well, it's more like this...
When you PCs main HD drops below a certain level of freespace, your performance is going down the crapper.
Awesome. I've been hoping to hear that for quite some time.epmode said:
Anyway, I can't believe people are actually dissapointed by this, let alone how anyone with any kind of idea about technology could believe that this was going to run on an original GeForce. Counter-Strike could kill a GeForce
Well I personally ain't disappointed. I'm pretty much set for it. Though I do think it odd to have talked up the Geforce as a base level for the game, and then to go and mark the Geforce3 down as a minimum spec. But then again, this probably is the "minimum if you want it to run well", not the absolute minimum. So in that sense, it's probably actually refreshing that they're not understating the spec (at least i hope they're not!)
dark10x said:
Any game that is swapping to your HD is going to suffer awful performance.. at least in something like a First Person shooter. There is no way in hell they are swapping 2 gig of Virtual Memory though. This PC I'm working on now has 768 MB of space allocated to the paging file.. which is standard for 512 MB of RAM.
This whole $$$ for 1 game logic is bass akwards. There's very rarely more then one game that I want for ANY system at any given time. If I haven't played that game a month later, I've likely forgotten all about it. If I operated under that mentality, if I didn't just bite the bullet and buy a PS2 two years ago, I probably still wouldn't have one.
And yes, PC Gaming is not for the poor. It's not as expensive as people make it out to be, but if you don't want to spend $400 a year on hardware, PC Gaming is not for you.
And yes, PC Gaming is not for the poor. It's not as expensive as people make it out to be, but if you don't want to spend $400 a year on hardware, PC Gaming is not for you.
btrboyev said:
Actually its been about 2 yrs since I last upgraded and my system has been doing pretty well as far as most games but now its fucking chugging on even current games less than Doom 3, Far Cry, HL2, etc. I planned on upgrading as soon as Doom 3 hit because its the benchmark as to how much of an upgrade I want
The Shadow
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Radeon 8500
1.333Ghz Athlon
512MB RAM
WOOO!!! I meet the bare minimum requirements for Doom III. W00t!
1.333Ghz Athlon
512MB RAM
WOOO!!! I meet the bare minimum requirements for Doom III. W00t!
ZombieSupaStar
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Got a 9800 pro!
Got an AMD Athlon 3000!
Got a GIG!
Got 80 Free!
JUST BRING IT /rock
Apharmd Battler
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ZombieSupaStar said:
I've got a Radeon 9800Pro, Athlon 3000+, and 1GB of PC3200 DDR RAM, and two 120MB Serial ATA dirves. Let's do this already!
btrboyev said:
a set of decent golf clubs is a bit more expensive than a modern pc. Are golf players crazy?
Slo said:
This man is right. I'm two steps away from buying myself a new rig to play doom3. I mean my rig will play it perfectly fine, but i want the best. I wont even think about it twice.
current specs: amd 2600xp, 1.5gb of ram, 320gb of storage and an ati radeon 9800 pro.
Teknopathetic
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Firstly, btrboyev, it's not about running one game well. A lot of people are upgrading for Half-life 2, etc. coming down the pipe later this year. Secondly, it's not just about *this* game in particular, so much as it is the engine. iD's engines are so widely used that you'll want good performance on the engine to ensure playability with other games using the engine. And considering the tech that the Doom III engine's pushing, I think it's fair to say it'll get a good bit of use.
ZombieSupaStar
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shuri said:
shuri
DO NOT buy a new rig with one like that give yours another 6 months yaer and then pick up something REALLY nice.
thats what i am doing, too much shit is chainging over in the enxt year to really drop coin on one now if you have a decent rig (which you do)