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What allready?!?

about time

If they dont releasy before HL2 they get screwed

Long ago, Carmack said something along the lines of a 1ghz chip, 256mb ram, geforce or higher. Some details follow which may have come from the Doom3 review issue of PCGamer:

Low-End:
1.5Ghz P4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

Mid-Range:
2.4Ghz P4 or equivalent
512MB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT

High-End:
3.4Ghz P4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE

You can find the above info at [H]ardforums, nvnews, etc.

Know that the high-end machine is not recommended for the highest detail settings. Save up for that 512 meg card

So when's the demo out? Or do they consider the alpha leak a demo?

so then long story short my 2.7 celeron with half a gig of RAM will run it okay if i drop a hundred bucks on a FX 5800 128 MB....

phongn wrote:

2000AD wrote:This has been bugging me for ages. Just what does "going gold" mean?

Many years ago, blank CD-Rs had a golden appearence. Going gold meant that the final build has been burned on said CD-R and sent off to manufacturing.

I wonder if gold CD's are made anymore, I feel nostalgic for the gold ole days.

Hamel wrote:Low-End:
1.5Ghz P4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

I'm below low-end

1.2Ghz Athlon
512MB Ram
Radeon 9600 Pro

His Divine Shadow wrote:

Hamel wrote:Low-End:
1.5Ghz P4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

I'm below low-end

1.2Ghz Athlon
512MB Ram
Radeon 9600 Pro

No you're not! A 1.2Ghz Athlon is roughly the equivalent of a 1.7Ghz P4! (Assuming they're talking about the Willamette model; they probably are, since the slowest Northwood was 1.6GHz)

DPDarkPrimus wrote:So when's the demo out? Or do they consider the alpha leak a demo?

The demo comes after the release

HDS wrote:1.2Ghz Athlon
512MB Ram
Radeon 9600 Pro

Mine is worse than that~ far worse to be honest

Col. Crackpot wrote:so then long story short my 2.7 celeron with half a gig of RAM will run it okay if i drop a hundred bucks on a FX 5800 128 MB....

EEK! Avoid the 5800 at all costs!

DaveJB wrote:No you're not! A 1.2Ghz Athlon is roughly the equivalent of a 1.7Ghz P4! (Assuming they're talking about the Willamette model; they probably are, since the slowest Northwood was 1.6GHz)

Uhh, wouldn't a 1.2GHz Athlon be a T-bird and not an Athlon XP chip?

His Divine Shadow wrote:I wonder if gold CD's are made anymore, I feel nostalgic for the gold ole days.

Yes, but they're usually about $1 each.

I heard over at SA that Doom3 will ship with an "Ultra Mode" that will require a 512mb vid card.

I suspect that we might be seeing this engine in various incarnations for a very long time.

Uraniun235 wrote:I heard over at SA that Doom3 will ship with an "Ultra Mode" that will require a 512mb vid card.

I suspect that we might be seeing this engine in various incarnations for a very long time.

Yeah, I read that about the video card on another site. Nothing confirmed, but damn.

Uraniun235 wrote: Uhh, wouldn't a 1.2GHz Athlon be a T-bird and not an Athlon XP chip?

The T-Birds still trashed the P4, clock-for-clock, though not quite as much as the AXP. IIRC the T-Bird is about 1.3 times faster than the Willamette, with the AXP being 1.5 times faster.

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:

Col. Crackpot wrote:so then long story short my 2.7 celeron with half a gig of RAM will run it okay if i drop a hundred bucks on a FX 5800 128 MB....

EEK! Avoid the 5800 at all costs!

thanks for the warning. so what would you reccomend in the $100 - $150 range?

Time to buy a new graphics card and a cafine drip me thinks.

Lord Pounder wrote:Time to buy a new graphics card and a cafine drip me thinks.

Caffine makes the monsters real.

Sugar = good.

Three weeks from today, can't wait, come on HL2 wereee are you? I get deployed in three months for bob sake!

Col. Crackpot wrote:thanks for the warning. so what would you reccomend in the $100 - $150 range?

You should be able to get an R9600 Pro for around that price range.

phongn wrote:

Col. Crackpot wrote:thanks for the warning. so what would you reccomend in the $100 - $150 range?

You should be able to get an R9600 Pro for around that price range.

9600XT could fit that price range too or dish out a little extra for a 9800 Pro.

At last! I have both Doom 3 and Half Life 2 on pre-order with Amazon, last time I checked Doom would be delivered on August 16th, Half-Life 2 in early September. I wonder how many D3 vs HL2 threads will emerge in the coming months?

DaveJB wrote:

Uraniun235 wrote: Uhh, wouldn't a 1.2GHz Athlon be a T-bird and not an Athlon XP chip?

The T-Birds still trashed the P4, clock-for-clock, though not quite as much as the AXP. IIRC the T-Bird is about 1.3 times faster than the Willamette, with the AXP being 1.5 times faster.

How's the Barton?

Hamel wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:So when's the demo out? Or do they consider the alpha leak a demo?

The demo comes after the release

I preferred the times when demos came out before games.

Well, it's about time. Can't wait to beat the shit out of my friend in deathmatch (and stab him in the back in cooperative mode )

Kintaro wrote:(and stab him in the back in cooperative mode )

What, didn't you know? Doom 3 = no coop mode.