PLasticSlug Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 (edited) exactly what do your specs have to be to play this game at its full potential? I have a Pen 4, 2 Ghz, and 256 mb of ram and running a Radeon 9800 Se AGP, With internal DAC of 400 MHz ?? and memory size of 128 mb. I know its not the best but would it be sufficient to play doom 3 close to its full potential? thanks Edited August 1, 2004 by PLasticSlug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeval Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQ0 That seems to be the definitive hardware guide to Doom 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 www.hardocp.com [H] did benchmarks on D3 with i.d.'s supervision. Most notable, nVidia cards seem to have teh upper hand most of the time and AMD/A64 CPU's are the prefered CPU's to be used. Note: No actual computer can play doom 3 at it's fullest because of it's uncompressing texture system. Although it is possible to play it on "Ultra," it will be laggy because of textureswamping, it is highly recommended to have at least 1 GB of RAM and a 256MB video card in doing so (the 1GB will help lower the texture swamping, but it won't remove it). If you want more information on it, read the benchmark done on [H]ardOCP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 actually, for the ultra mode, you need a 512mb video card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 actually, for the ultra mode, you need a 512mb video cardYes and No. Yes: because it will remove practically the "laggyness" between texture swamping. No: because you can still use it using a 256MB video card, a very good AMD CPU(2800+XP/3000+A64 or higher AMD cpu) and at least 1 to 1.5 Gigs of ram. But it's impossible to get rid of the texture swamping because it still relys on the video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken_cinder Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 What the hell is this Texture Swamping? Texture Swapping in and out of video ram is a huge burden on performance.I need a new PC anyway, Doom 3 is only playable at low detail for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 People should already know by now, My spelling mistakes and confusion of words and poor grammer is greater then God himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I'm in Florida while all my new computer parts arrive at a friends house. I feel so helpless. Tomorrow I am going to call all the local game stores, Best Buys, Walmarts, Circuit City's, etc., just to see if they have Doom III available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someboddy Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 A super computer. You can borrow one from the pentagon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Actually id has made this game quite scalable. Props to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khakee Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 A super computer. You can borrow one from the pentagon.Thanks I Will Buy It! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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