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Originally posted by Hard_NRG Lol, well I am certainly looking forward to it, this and Half Life 2, even though both games won't run very well on my computer. Is there a date as to when Doom 3 will be released? I heard that it is early August, is this accurate?

My dad has turned into a full GED and he gets like 6 free copies of HL:2 when they are realised Nerds rock!

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Originally posted by Hybrid Junkie Take a look at S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Better than doom3 easily, might be contender against HL2 even. Looks amazing, gameplay ideas of completely non-scripted is awesome.

I doubt it mate , the Doom series has it's diehard cult following and the anticipation has been incredible. IT OWNZ!!

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Nah I'm talking about which will be better, not more popular.

Doom looks great...... however the game is fairly scripted.

IE. dark room here, monster hidden there...


Stalker gives you absolute freedom.

The area is HUGE, and multiplayer would be crazy being able to trade with others and team up in clans etc.

None of this "deathmatch" bullshit.

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*sigh* at this thread

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You're just glad petey doesn't have internet at home

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ROBERT DUFFY and DOOM 3 on HARDWARE THREAD I saw these comments attributed to Robert Duffy on a website... 1. 6800 is a tad faster than X800 cards. Both run it in full glory 2. The game has four render paths: NV10, NV20, R200, and ARB2. All paths look awesome, even down to a g4mx, but the ARB2 path is the "full package," and is used for the R300+ and Geforce FX+ cards. It does all it's fancy **** in one pass. 3. PCI Express enhances NOTHING. 4. The difference between a 128mb and 256mb card is that the former uses compressed textures whereas the latter only compresses diffuse and specualr maps. In another words, no big deal. However, a 500mb card is needed to run the game in Ultra Quality mode. 5. 512MB is the ideal system total memory. 384 is required, 1GB is nice, but the difference is negligible. 6. Nothing special is included for a 64-bit OS. 7. A 1.5 Ghz processor is the least recommended, but a 2Ghz and above will help since... 8...The sound engine is entirely CPU dependant. Therefore a crappy soundcard works flawlessly. Not to worry, the enfine only uses a "small percentage of cycles, much less than if the engine relied on a soundcard. 9. The only reccommendation regarding faster framerates is to disable to "advanced special effects option." In other words, upgrade if you have problems. 10. They tie it up by providing three levels of "Doom lovin' PC's" Low-End: 1.5GhzP4 or equivalent 512MB Ram Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500 Mid-Range: 2.4GhzP4 or equivalent 1GB RAM Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT High_End: Aka Hardware that doesn't exist, but best guess anyway 3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent 2GB RAM GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE. In conclusion, the game will run well on a variety of hardware, and Rob Duffy, the lead programmer, says that the game looks real good no matter what, and that it will continue to look better as hardware improves. Like all previous id engines, we'll be playing games based on D3 for another five years down the road. Enjoy everybody! I have a couple of thoughts and comments about this: 1. that part about "5. 512MB is the ideal system total memory. 384 is required, 1GB is nice, but the difference is negligible." conflicts with the specs for the low-end system: "Low-End: 512MB Ram Mid-Range: 1GB RAM High_End: 2GB RAM" Shouldn't 384mb be the low end? And if the difference between 512mb and 1gb is negligible, why go to 2GB? 2. This part about "1. 6800 is a tad faster than X800 cards. Both run it in full glory"... Is that with or Without AA switched on? I wonder if 800x600 with 4x FSAA is better than 1024x768 without the use of AA.

Where abouts does everyone fit in? I've got the exact mid range system, i guess ill play it, then replay it in a year or 2 when I get a new box. I bought this one july last year (for doom 3 and hl2, thanks id and valve) so I wont be upgrading for a year or so, unless of course i find a lot of money on the side of the road.

Maybe if you stop spending your money on cddjs and what not, you would have some moeny to upgrade you machine! :P

i've got my system ready for some doom lovin, and now my wallet is paying for it.

but i don't give a flying fuck, because i have been waiting for this game so god damn long now!!!

the alpha ran pretty damn well on my old system, which had a geforce 3 in it...

so i'd be surprised to how much tweaking it takes me to get the game looking and running sweet too

i really can't wait for this, my linux box NEEDS this game.

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i think my geforce2 400 would die trying to play this game

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Originally posted by Casey My dad has turned into a full GED and he gets like 6 free copies of HL:2 when they are realised Nerds rock!

6 free copies?!



Wow, arent you lucky?

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Originally posted by escee Where abouts does everyone fit in? I've got the exact mid range system, i guess ill play it, then replay it in a year or 2 when I get a new box. I bought this one july last year (for doom 3 and hl2, thanks id and valve) so I wont be upgrading for a year or so, unless of course i find a lot of money on the side of the road.

i have about a third of the low-end system...
my dad was thinking about getting a new pc after he does his tax so maybe there is still hope after all

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my celery @ 1.1 n geforce mx 440 will unfortunatly NOT run this game

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