Doom 3!

Halfway through and it’s been pretty repetitive. Still, this is the most advanced 3D engine in existance and very realistic. (The mancubus was actually more effective in Doom-2 )

My current laptop system:

Dell Inspiron 8500

Intel Centrino 1,4 GHz
512 Mb DDR
ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro Turbo 128 Mb DDR

Doom 3 runs pretty smooth and well on the High setting, 1024×768 with no anti-aliasing. Some lag occurs when I enable the Ultra High setting and/or anti-aliasing. The difference isn´t that big, though. Perhaps I´ll be able to use the Ultra high setting if I allow the system more time to buffer (?) after loading a game.

Really?
I have the Inspiron 8600 with nearly the same things in it.

Agree. The best performer I ever had was probably my 16 MB Voodoo-3. Too bad 3DFX itself died.

Geforce, Doom-3 can’t possibly run on anything less than a Geforce-3 (or Geforce-4, to be practical). On the other end of the spectrum is Painkiller – primitive but fun.

Geforce sucks!! Really, doom III runs very slows even with two connected Geforce II cards. Not too bad, of what I’ve seen of the game, it’s not worth buying a new computer for.

Croteam still holds the title for best programming. With anything less than a Geforce 6300, 768 meg, 2.5 ghz set, the Doom-3 experience will be half assed. What the hell was Carmack thinking? And there’s certainly nothing that stunning to justify such high end requirements.

With a XFX Geforce 5700LE 256 MB card and P4 2.0 ghz core, 512 MB RAM, the game is just about playable in 800×600 res, medium detail and 2x anti-aliasing but is frequently choppy. The game itself recommends 640×480 with medium detail.

The game is also quite similar to AvP-2, especially in terms of skinning.

Any idea how it would run with a lower end GeforceFX?

The Asus A7N8X uses nVidia chipsets, so I would think it would run quite well with Geforce GPUs.

Any idea how it would run with a lower end GeforceFX?

2.5 Athlon (Barton core) at any rate, which are about £45-£50 depending on wether your prefer retail or OEM. Making good use of the dual channel 333Mhz memory, just have to get 1 Gig of the stuff! The A7N8X Deluxe is a fantastic mobo and can be bought nowadays for about £80. I’ve had mine now for about 18 months.

Simmer- There has got to be some mistakes here. Youve got a 2.5 Athlon? Which one? And you can get a 2.3 ghz Athlon for 45 pounds? That sounds awfully cheap. And BTW, we got the same mobo! I got the A7N8X-E! That makes a huge difference, not nessesarily in framerate, but in texture quality with the increased bandwidth. People dont realize speed isnt everything, bandwidth counts for alot in eliminating choke points.

Yes but thats not out yet 🙁

Perhaps I’ll get an XBOX for my birthday from the Mrs (hint, hint.. oh she doesn’t read this though 🙂 )

I wouldn’t say so, my rig comprises of:

2.5 Athlon (Barton Core)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard
512MB TWINMOS (2×256 DDR 3200 Dual)
Hercules 9800PRO 128MB
Audigy 2 ZS
120 GB IDE Western Digital 7,200RPM 8MB cache (OS Drive)
160 GB SATA 150 Maxtor Plus 9 7,200RPM 8MB cache (Games n stuff drive)

Next upgrade will be 1GB (2×512 3200 DDR DUAL Corsair XMS)

All in all not a state of the art machine seeing as the you can pick up a barton 2.3 for about £45 and the 9800PRO about £130, memory about £60.

Anyway in all its runs pretty well without the cost of the latest kit.

I tried to take some pics of hte zombies but I didn’t have time to hit F12 before they kicked my ar5e! I’m playing it on veteran as some reviews said the game was too easy. My only gripe at the moment is that the guns sound really pathetic, I’m gonna mod it tonight, not sure about the duct tape mod though, I think it adds to the tension having to swap between the flashlight and the weapons.

You must have a top of the line computer to get that kind of quality because Doom 3 is an absolute system resource hog. Here is the best I could get out of my meager Athlon 1.6 ghz radeon 9000 128 mb rig:

I just have two words…Halo 2 😎