doom III

PondScm007 · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:21 pm Post subject: doom III

i DL'ed the alpha, and all i can say is wow ... its insane...and very very scary...i wouldnt play it in a dark room heh.... you can get it at http://users.adelphia.net/~nrgonline/doom3/ but youll need quite a bit of computing power to run it...look what it did to my comp lol...but oh man i cant wait for this game! (even though ill probbably have to get a new computer to play it ;p )

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Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

That's memory usage is insane!!
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PondScm007 · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 7:58 pm Post subject:

oh i forgot to say the .rar file you need to DL is 350mb or so, and when you unrar it its 1.08GB...ouch!

Darkath · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 8:09 pm Post subject:

If the four levels require 1.08 gigs, think of what the full version will require

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YourPowersAreWeakOldMan · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 8:17 pm Post subject:

Yeah that memory usage is from the programmable shaders. That means real time shadows and reflection to give it a superrealistic look. Unfortunately it uses alot of memory and all. Plus that's the Alpha version leak....it's not done or optimized yet so when it's done sometime next summer it will run better, but still don't expect to run it on a 1000Mhz or less very well. And better get 64MB video too.
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merf · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 6:42 am Post subject:

Thanks for the link pond, I'm DL'n it now. I noticed that it was running at 16fps...what r the specs of yer comp? I'm tryin to figure out what kind of performance I'll get...TIA

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PondScm007 · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:20 am Post subject:

lol yeah quite the low fps...i got 1000fps on the "loading" screen though hehe, but if i kept shooting a corpse i could get down to 4fps..yuck..and thast at 800x600 res

i have an amd 1700xp @1.51GHz
1024mb pc2100 ram
radeon8500 64mb video card
40gb 7200rpm HD that it was installed on
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My Personal Insanity · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 10:54 pm Post subject:

Once again ID shows it has a secret pact with hardware makers to force people to upgrade

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5th GHG E.G. Mine · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:05 pm Post subject:

Thus is the whole point of more powerful, faster computers.
If this gets around, people will...not care. We've got better and better games, I'm not gonna complain.