Doom 3

[dA mAn]

Hey,

I know its not released yet but wondering if my current config would be
powerful enough to play the game maybe at 800x600 with quite a few of the
extras turned on.

Athlon xp 2400 @ 2.150 ghz
512 MB ram pc 2700 ram.
Built by ATI radeon 8500 64mb @ 300mhz core 600mhz RAM
Gigabyte GA-7VRXP

Anybody have any ideas when its going to be released?

TIA

Dan

 

[dA mAn]

Crap. Im quite dispointed actually cuz this was ATI's last generation high
performance graphics card which I shelled out £230 for! It handles all my
other games perfectly. I'll see when Doom 3 comes out to see if I need a new
graphics card for sure. At least I've learned a lesson, never go for high
end stuff cuz it devalues so quickly and is shit in less that 18 months
time!! I'd probably get FX5600 ultra or more favourable Radoen 9700.

Dan

 

[Roger Squires]

I'll see when Doom 3 comes out

BTW, Halflife2 is what you should be aiming for, only 3months away.

rms

 

[Ifrag.v2]

BTW, Halflife2 is what you should be aiming for, only 3months away.

Oh, so does this mean they made their own engine instead of using one from ID?

 

[Tim Miser]

Dan, the Doom/Quake products are always delayed and they're living a pipe
dream to think it'll be released in 2003. I would venture to say that the
R400 product will be out about the time D3 is finally released so the
R300/350 series will be fairly inexpensive by then.

Bottom line is, if all your games work fine with your 8500, then stick with
it and wait until you have a game that needs more horsepower...the prices
are always dropping so the longer you wait, the more money you'll save or
faster product you'll be able to afford.

-Tim

 

[aep]

Oh, so does this mean they made their own engine instead of using one from ID?

Yes, try watching the E3 HL2 video so you can catch up with current
events.

Andrew.

 

[carchadon]

I will quote a message I post earlier - basically I agree with the last post
......

"Dont listen to that idiot - you have a great card for 30 bucks that will play
just about everything out there with ease. There's a lot of crap going around
now about DirectX9 cards - most of which barely, if at all, outperform DirectX8

cards in DX8 games. Whilst some DX9 games are around the parts of DX9 they use
are tiny - hence you can get blazing performance in things like EVE-Online (DX9

required) with a GeF3/8500 card so long as you have DX9 installed.

Quite apart from that an old Ti4xxx card will blow away most new cards
(including the 9600 etc) in 3dmark01 (my Ti4600 gets a score of just under
14,000) and at the end of the day 97% of all games out there now are DX8 and
even then newer games are only using small parts of DX9 which have tiny effects

on performance with a DX8 hardware part and certainly do not justify
upgrading."