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Doom 3 Alpha Leaked
Alex_Ionescu writes "The Doom 3 E3 Demo Alpha has leaked to the public. It looks promising, altough I'm only getting 12FPS on a Radeon 7500. Did anyone else have the chance to play it and could post their FPS? Here are some sites with more information and screenshots: here , here, here, and finally here. "
This computer truly is a monster
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I wonder if this story has anything to do with the ad at the top of it for a Radeon 9700...
And in other news (TOTALLY UNRELATED) today, sales of high end Nvidia and ATI cards goes up by 1000%.
My photolog
http://www.thegameclans.com/doom3pics/high%20res/s hot0054.jpg
Do those urinals have CAMERAS strategically attached to them????? Creepy...
And that means...what? That you have a really big penis?
Methinks not.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
What? Run. Run. Run. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Kill. Kill. Grab ammo. Grab ammo. Change weapons. Shoot. Shoot. Feel Asshole go from O to . after going down a dark and lonely hall way to find a million imps waiting on the other side.
This isn't good gameplay?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
I DON'T think that slashdot should be posting mirrors to the leaked alpha
iD was worried about the leak, so they submitted to slashdot to stop people downloading. If a server cant take a 50kb page being slashdotted, what about an xxxMB file?
I don't believe slashdot posted this. Isn't it considered piracy in the worst form? Now EVERYONE on the planet will be after a copy (as ever 1/2 the world was not after it already). Sucked that JC's labor of love is exposed to the world in such an incomplete state.
:)
I will get off my moral high horse now and look for a copy
Fact 1: calculating shadows, bumpmapping etc. is very hardware intensive.
Fact 2: you're a moron.
Will winex run it?
Or am I going to have to install that leaked version of Longhorn after all?
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
This shows a serious lack of respect. For the first time, my opinion of slashdot/taco has dropped severely.
So... you're new here, then?
I write in my journal
What do you think distributed computing is for?
This reminds me of when I was talking about reaganomics and I said "trickle down? trickle down my ass. uh, wait."
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I can imagine the atmosphere at iD headquarters near Dallas right now;
John - "Damn bastards, the ATI folk. They leaked the alpha."
Xian - "We've got to punish ATI somehow for this."
John - "I know, I'll cripple performance on ATI cards. I'll just insert a sleep() function call here and half the framerate when I detect an ATI card. That will teach them."
Xian - "Excellent."
Revolution = Evolution
John- "One more thing..."
Xian- "Yes?"
John- "I've got missles."
Xian- "Oh really...."
John- "The aerospace tests are going
better than planned."
Xian- "Excellent! I'll get ATI's address."
That's funny, another poster mentioned the game was leaked to alt.binaries.games.worms...
Maybe, before he leaked it, he patched the game so that it was artificially crippled to only run at 12 FPS so that it will spur demand for ridiculously fast video cards.
Hey, I can wear my tinfoil conspiracy hat once in a while, can't I?
pi = 3.141592653589793helpimtrappedinauniversefactory7
best... line... evar:
.omg. i almost died.
my dad is watching me play, and i shoot one of the monsters with the shotgun... and dood looks dead... and my dad goes:
"SHOOT HIS ASS IN THE HEAD, AND IN THE CHEST!!! --- I BET HE HAS DUAL PROCESSORS!!!"
I can just see the John Carmack and his stock broker meeting,
Stock Broker: John, you stocks have been tanking lately, and the whole IT has been hit hard. Your portfolio is starting to get a little weak.
John Carmack: (jumps in a telephone booth, ripes off his shirt to reveal his costume, with an "IT" on his chest) The computer industry is hurting, must get it to rebound. I will create a new game, Doom 3 to save the Industry! They will all have to buy new computers to play it! That will improve my portfolio right?
Stock Broker: Yes!
John Carmack I am on it(leaps out the window flying to his Cubicle of Productivity)!
Let me put it like this...
:P :)
I got ahold of the alpha demo at around 10am on Friday.
I played it on my GeForce2GTS at around 10:05am on Friday.
I picked up an ATI Radeon 9700 at 5pm on Friday. Thank dawg for leaked Alphas on payday
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
I found the r_enableDoomIII 0 command worked wonders on my machine. Of course, the game looks a lot like a Windows desktop with that setting disabled. Still, I got like 80 fps on my Neomagic 128 card on my laptop. Can't beat that.
Erik
If the CIA were in charge of this the source code would be posted on telephone poles by now, with a "Have you seen me?" headline.