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[Blazing Sword]

Both will basically be displayed at the same resolution according to that new report. XBOX has essentially a better card in a Geforce 3.5, but a PC has more RAM and faster processor.

So what will win in the visual department if both are the same res?

 

[Teknopathetic]

The PC One. Xbox's getting a lot of corners cut to deal with the fact that there's a lot less ram.

 

[Culex]

Textures will look better on the PC at 640 x 480. Also with the inherant extra sharpness of a PC monitor, it will look better. Unless, of course, you're running a nice LCD or plasma TV.

 

[Panajev2001a]

The detail you see on enemies and a lot of the on-screen objects comes thanks to Normal Maps which are at the end textures which take space: cut their resolution to save space ( as they have been doing ) and you cut visual detail on objects and lighting quality.

 

[Tenguman]

PC will look much better most definatly

Xbox version isn't just cutting texture resolution, but lighting complexity and animation due to the relativly weak CPU and low system RAM.

 

[DSN2K]

been over this in 2 threads already.....


PC version., thats all im saying. :|

 

[signet]

Xbox version, PC is for the chumps.

 

[pestul]

Xbox version, PC is for the chumps.

Quoted from Carmack I'm sure..

 

[tenchir]

You guys should check out HardOCP Doom3 hardware guide. Seems that even at Low Quality, Doom3 for PC will still look better than XBOX version.

 

[Yusaku]

Yes, let's have another thread with more PC vs. Xbox cockslapping.

With that I think Hard OCP's own screenshots show PC with low quality settings will still look better than Xbox. FPS is anyone's guess.

 

[Yusaku]

Quoted from Carmack I'm sure..

The sad thing he has a better than PC than most people replying to this thread. It's sad really.

 

[TheGreenGiant]

where's that big eyerolls icon?

 

[Demigod Mac]

Computer version, of course.

The GeForce 3 alone has as much free VRAM as the entirety of the Xbox's RAM.

 

[doncale]

Xbox's NV2A is closer to a GeForce 4 than it is to a GeForce 3. in terms of geometry, the Xbox version would look more detailed than a PC GeForce 3 version. but as for textures, a GeForce 3 PC will have more VRAM and main RAM so......

 

[DCharlie]

"Xbox's NV2A is closer to a GeForce 4 than it is to a GeForce 3. in terms of geometry, the Xbox version would look more detailed than a PC GeForce 3 version. but as for textures, a GeForce 3 PC will have more VRAM and main RAM so......"

The Xbox version should be optimised for ONE configuration. PC version has to handle a number of different configs, so it remains to be seen which comes out better.
Could be that the Xbox doesn't look as good but has a more stable frame rate ....

... or something like that.

 

[Teknopathetic]

From the benches, graphs, and stuff from the Hardware OCP guide, it looks like the GF4MX Doom III looks better than the Xbox and runs at an average 30 fps.

 

[seismologist]

I'd have alot more faith if ID were developing the Xbox version.

 

[tenchir]

Looks like some stores already have Doom3, but waiting till release date. I know since the full game is already out there on the net. Don't bother to PM me where to get it, I won't tell.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

honestly tho even if I did get it *taht way* id definatly buy it to support ID, same with half life 2 and same with the star wars dvds *cough*

 

[seismologist]

Looks like some stores already have Doom3, but waiting till release date. I know since the full game is already out there on the net. Don't bother to PM me where to get it, I won't tell.

Wow some people have alot of nerve. If I stole this game I'd be too embarrased to admit to admit it.

 

[Teknopathetic]

Even though the game's supposed to be released soon anyway, just because a game is pirated, doesn't mean stores have it.

 

[Thaedolus]

Who has the balls to even download it? For some reason, I wouldn't feel safe bittorrenting this particular game right now...

I'll wait until Tuesday, thanks

 

[tenchir]

Wow some people have alot of nerve. If I stole this game I'd be too embarrased to admit to admit it.

Are you refering to me? What makes you think I downloaded the game or be embarassed to admit it to strangers on the internet?

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Microsoft Windows is a rapist of system resources. My money's on the Xbox.

 

[siege]

It's not even out on the scene anyway.

 

[Wario64]

Apparantly the local Best Buy here has copies of the game already, but they can't sell them

 

[cybamerc]

doncale:

> in terms of geometry, the Xbox version would look more detailed than a PC GeForce 3 version.

No. But it may have a more stable framerate.

 

[Fafalada]

Well the XBox version should do the GPU stuff faster (geometry, stencil ops etc.) but if the port isn't removing the CPU dependancies (afaik PC version does stuff like silhouete tracing on CPU) I doubt it will perform better either.
But technically, it should...

 

[cybamerc]

Well the XBox version should do the GPU stuff faster (geometry, stencil ops etc.) but if the port isn't removing the CPU dependancies (afaik PC version does stuff like silhouete tracing on CPU) I doubt it will perform better either.
But technically, it should...

Carmack talked about doing the extrusions on the GPU (GF3 isn't powerful enough). But it's not like they increased the detail because you have an extra vertex shader. I think the Xbox version might have a higher minimum framerate but that's about it.

I think it's also worth keeping in mind that Vicarious Visions is handling the port.

 

[DemonCleaner]

i´d really like to see what the xboxversion would have looked like if id had developed it