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...would lose the best part of their raison d'etre if put in monochrome palettes inclined to black.

And we all know what inclined-to-black gameplay looks like, don't we?

Clearly your comment suggests you know very little about the capabilities of Linux and the state of Linux gaming - or you're just being a troll.

For your information, Flash is often ported to Linux a fair time after it's written for Windows so the likelihood of this game being Flash 9 is slim to none since there will probably not be a Linux port of Flash 9 by that time. Also, there are several games that look and play better in Linux using OpenGL than they do in Windows on the same hardware. I would expect that this game simply will use OpenGL as the graphics engine allowing the majority of code written to be cross-platform with very little to port between Windows, Linux and Mac.

Thank you.

Sure you'll have to wait, but that time barrier can protect you from the shit games, eh?

Unless they face something, what is Doom 3 games is based on! :)

You're missing the point! A better heatsink means that the heat gets more efficiently transferred to the computer's surroundings, therefore heating your room more efficiently.

I will grant you that computers make great space heaters--they not only heat the room, but they can do all sorts of interesting things in the mean time.

I have a 6600 GT (and Athlon 2400+) and it runs smoothly at 1024x768 with most of the settings dialed up.

Install the latest Doom 3 patch, the latest Nvidia Forceware patch, and the latest motherboard and sound card patches.

For me, turning off EAX, setting the card's Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering control panel to 'Application Preference', and setting image_cacheMinK higher in autoexec.cfg (see page 7&8 of the guide) all seemed to make the biggest difference.

For more info, try the tweak guide.

Oooh, you can always do more black if you put your heart into it..

PS: I loved the game :)

I happen to know of a very good one.

I've been to mars before...it sucked.

really? are you one of these, or one of these?

If you tamper with it, you'll unleash demons from hell!!!!!!!

A fix can be found here.

take this virtual trip to Mars?

Well the PC system requirements are almost exactly the same. A 1.5 GHz P4, 384MB RAM, and a 64MB video card (Radeon 8500/Geforce3+) are required. The game might run on a 1.25GHz G4 but I doubt id/Activision/Aspyr really wants to support questions on why the game runs bad. Hardly anything that needs justification.

Why else do you think we're training legions of people to be skilled in battling the forces of the burning hells?

Do we really want to leave this rock? I mean, we can start exploring Mars, but I'm not sure we're gonna like what we'll find there...

Because we all know what happens when you open the teleporter.

Long times in the dark with guns without flashlights, thats what.

I recall somthing to that effect as well. However, I did find a training simulation that should help prepare us for what to do in case all hell does break loose.

The page is rather slashdotted right now, but I managed to get a glimpse. Looks like this thing is just in time for the Doom 3 mania, with more buttons than you can shake a boomstick at! Looks like quite the excellent Doom 3 controller to me, although an additional toggle joystick would help things more. And there's a Google cache right here. Finally, I also found this prototype design of what looks to be another model -- interesting stuff.

The id Store doesn't seem to be selling Doom 3. Clicking "Buy Now" from the Doom 3 site provides links to EB Games, Gamestop, and Best Buy. I guess the other comments were right about id wanting to develop good relations with their retailers!

We refer to this as a fix for a nonexistant problem.

I don't know if anyone remembers the Honda Prelude with 4 wheel steering back in the 80's, but it was a really neat technology. The car would handle like mad at low and high speeds and was incredibly stable. However, the option cost about $4k and was not widely used. The reason? No one needed it that bad, the Prelude had great handling as it was.

Now we see a system the is almost exactly the same used on large American trucks. This makes alot of sense and will sell. It helps people park these land barges in parking lots without squishing the VWs and can help you get your trailer out of or into a tight spot. Definitely a better application of the technology from a sales and marketing point of view.

IMHO the only reason other than 3d development for a 3d mouse is for games that have a 3d environment (credit the other posters for bringing up Descent). But when has a game ever caused people to upgrade their computers or perephrials? Huh?

The official website should be a showcase for the game, getting us revved up and excited for its release, giving us the lowdown on everything that anyone would wan't to know.

A potential example of that - Bungie Studios' site.

Love them or loathe them, Bungie seem pretty good at that PR thing. Id communicate through occasional updates on their finger service, Valve through emails and posts on other people's forums, and leave their own sites as unsullied, unused shop windows with a few smatterings of out-of-date news and screenshots.

I don't think we can slashdot akamai, but that quake.de link is pretty toasted at the moment, heh...

I actually have not seen this yet (posting from 56K here) so I'm not sure what this trailer is and how it compares to the other file...

screenshots | desktops | preorder | trailer

screenshots | desktops | preorder | trailer

screenshots | desktops | preorder | trailer

screenshots | desktops | preorder | trailer

Direct link to the large trailer, for those who don't have Quicktime installed.

And your machine doesn't have a Microsoft Windows registry, click here to download it.

If that's the way it will really look when I play it, I will buy it and play at 5 frames per second just to see it.

Here's the link for the large movie trailer.
http://www.doom3.com/video/trailer_large.mov
Enjoy

It's a shame no one's making Linux games any more

Oh really?

I've been patiently waiting for the release of Thief 3 and/orDoom 3 before updating my game PC. It looks like the game will be out before the hardware though, but it illustrates that sitting tight will get you more bang for the buck.

Of course when Duke Nukem Forever comes out you could likely buy a Cray machine for $24.95.

So the appropriate answer to Mac Halo's problems is a free and open beta test and/or "shareware" release, ala Doom, Quake, etc. Give people the engine and a couple of levels, and maybe multiplayer play and see what happens?

Now that I think about it, I wonder if id will do that for Doom III.

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Also, I wouldn't have expected any laptop made a year ago to support games released recently. That's the nature of the machine, unfortunately, as far as laptops go, unless they're one of those hacked-together beasts that use desktop components.
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And here I was thinking that "myDoom" was just the personalization page for the Doom3 web portal...

Yeah; I think "moody lighting" is all a matter of contrast rather than overall darkness-of-scene.

A short look at the html of the site along with a small guess yields: http://www.doom3.com/play_large.html The default trailer is entirely to small to make out details.

yes

I'd like to have it. Of course, it probably requires a PC 3.0ghz with 4200 RDRAM, an 8x AGP video card and massive HD. Even if you go open source, you can't escape the corporate Hand Of Doom.

Seems like just as much vaporware as it was early last year.

I opened the doom3 mainpage and that mechanical robot page. Jesus, what a coincidence.
It's almost as if that the doom3 monster *is* the mechanical robot covered in flesh.
Doom
Robot

try ie to get correctly-sized popup windows for the screenshots, there is a hidden "next" button

I haven't slept for more then 24 hours but I didn't see a link to the large format trailer on the site so here it is:

Slashdot Me

Of course, I already grabbed it myself.

There's only one I'm exited about: Thief III.

Of course, I'll have to check out DOOM III... it looks like it might be the first playable survival horror game, ever. It'll be nice to see if the id folks can make a good game (you know, with a plot and stuff) with their excellent engine... ;-)

Oh, and my Neverwinter Nights modules.

>>The gaming industry is more and more starting to feel like just another Hollywood branch. I wonder how long it takes before they'll start redoing old games, like they're doing with all old classic movies now?

You mean like this ?