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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. Re:Disappointing... by heinzkeinz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Small caveat - when you say "by making such an advanced and neat-o engine (if it is all it is hyped to be), ID is improving the quality of ALL FPS games." that's not actually true. ID is improving the GRAPHICAL quality of all FPS games.

    Big difference.

    Ok, point taken, but the graphical quality of FPS games is significant. These games depend heavily on realism. Don't get me wrong, however: gameplay is still numero uno.

  2. Re:Misrepresented. by millette · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you mean you reboot and change video cards if you feel like gaming or photoshop?
    how weird is that!