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Carmack on Doom 3 Video Cards

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-note-hemos dept.

mr_sheel writes "According to a Gamespy interview with John Carmack, Carmack says what he thinks about the video cards with Doom3: ATI Radeon 8500 is a better card, with a nicer fragment path, while NVidia still consistently runs faster due to better drivers. And of course, the GeForce SDR cards will not be "fast enough to play the game properly unless you run at 320x240 or so." And in a ShackNews interview with Carmack, he says that Doom 3 at E3 was only running at medium quality... wow."

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  1. The Console winner will be? by Malicious · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The question, of "how much money will i need so spend on my computer, to play this" is completely pointless. For the price of a Radeon 8500, or NVidia card, i can probably buy an Xbox, GameCube, or PS2, which the title, will almost be forced to come to eventually. Save your money, keep the computers for coding, and the consoles for gaming.

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  2. Re:yay. this is fun. by Frac · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So some hotshot Ferrari-drivin' game developer who makes more money than God likes to buy video cards every week to compare 'em?

    Actually dumbass, I think he gets the latest video cards sent to him for free.

  3. I hope most FPS games by Enrico+Pulatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    use the Quake III engine over the Doom III engine. Yikes. Thanks for forcing everyone to get new cards for recreation. I must be getting old since I can't justify this a new 3d card...

  4. Re:Misrepresented. by AlecStaar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mr. Carmack,

    First of all, thanks for making what I consider the most revolutionary games out there since 1992 or so... love IDSoftware games, they are great and I always look forward to the new ones!

    That said... I read your commentary here regarding the hardware used in the demo at E3 and that ran fairly smoothly. I need to know if a system of this makeup will be able to handle Doom III at roughly 50fps, and if not, will there be options in the game regarding graphics resolutions, color & detail levels, etc. that will make it do so?

    Here is the specs of my current machine:

    Dual Intel Pentium III 1ghz o/c @1127mhz
    512mb PC-133 SDRAM by Micron
    GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb RAM AGP by VisionTek
    WD 120gb JB 8mb buffer ATA-100 7200rpm disk #1
    WD 40gb x 3 disks 2mb buffer each ATA-100 7200rpm logical disk #2 RAID 0 stripe array

    Thanks for the information sir. I would like to avoid having to buy a new motherboard, CPU, & RAM if possible (although, by the release date of the game in 2003, I probably may)... just curious!

    Alexander Peter Kowalski
    apk