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Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th
Rogerpq3 writes "Yes, this is the official word that [long-awaited PC FPS] DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! According to the .plan file of id CEO Todd Hollenshead: 'We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. So, the next question is release dates. Retailers in the States will be allowed to pick up games starting at 12:01 AM on August 3rd. The official street date is actually August 5th in the U.S.A., but some of your favorite stores will probably have it early for those of you who have to have it first. Check with your local retailer for that information... [Internationally] the UK will probably get it first, on or about August 6th. Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th (cue Twilight Zone Theme) or close to that date, with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland)'."
Damn, there goes the $50 I lost on the bet that Duke Nukem would come out first. :(
That means they'll get it, what, July 30th?
Hell has frozen over and pigs have learned to fly
Did hell just freeze over? /me
thx ID :)
In Soviet Russia, Doom III comes before YOU!
Nah, what am I thinking?
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
WOOEEE!
linking to a finger server. You'd think someone could have put the text on a website or something.
sulli
RTFJ.
Just to let you know... Starting August 5th... I will not be coming into work for a week or two because of... personal reasons. If it is an emergency and you need me to come in... do not expect me to be showered, well fed or able to adapt to bright lights.
Sincerely,
Your groveling employee.
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It's all falling into place.
Doom 3.
Soon Half-life 2.
The second coming of Jesus.
And then - Duke Nukem Forever will at last be mine!
Only a little later than stores claimed and a little earlier than I expected.
and I wanted to have kids :( This isn't fair... all that time wasted...
I guess I finally have a good reason to upgrade my video card now.
Utilizing the anticpated AGP (-1)^0.5 or AGPi - A graphics card, for under $8,000,000 that is able to run it at more than 2 FPS will be available the following year.
"...we're here to tell you that Doom 3 is not only done, it's absolutely mind-blowing."
"You are basically subjecting yourself to a 20 hour cardiac episode."
"...you will never experience a dull moment. Or even a less than mesmerizing one."
"Doom 3 is a masterpiece of art form - staying true to the frantic legacy of the Doom series, while ambitiously reaching new heights and bashing down the doors of the next generation of PC shooter. The bar is raised."
I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!
I'm so excited!
Does anyone know what the minimum specs are ?
If I need hardware, I need to be ordering it now !!
[ Monday is a terrible way to spend one seventh of your life. ]
Well, what kind of system will one need to run this?
looks at his pitiful box, crys
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Now my wife will kill me after I spend $500 on a new video card to play this game.
I seem to have missed the part about the level editor. Are they including it in the box, or will they release it later?
The bar has been raised with regards to packaged content editors, after all. Heck, the Morrowind editing tools would let you re-create the entire game!
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(cue Twilight Zone Theme) or close to that date, with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland)'
In the the Twilight Zone, Doom 3 excepts Soviet Russia!
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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yes, but will it run on linux .....
YES! A hit title that runs on linux right out of the box. Thank you ID Software!
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Great! It is finally being released. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it won't run well (if at all) on my P3-933 with a GF3. Does anyone know what the minimum or recommended hardware specifications will be?
Why? Why not just give one release date? Or approximate release date where the product will be shipped to as mnay stores as possible? Why this?
Hate me!
I wonder if Newegg's sales just spiked.
Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
I was hoping to play some Doom this weekend. Looks like it's time to hit the zero day sitez!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Ao on Agugst 5th I can officially start waiting for the Mac OS X port? *yeah!*
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This site was just updated. It's just a count down to the official release date. Here it is. http://www.ua-corp.com/ Login: HBQDBDHQGYSK
Look, if you want to combat piracy, release it on the same date world-wide. This one-week-later crap will only result in lots of illegal copies in "late" countries.
When will it be available for download?
Anybody know what the HW reqs are for it?
I've heard they'll be significant... am I going to have to upgrade my 1 y.o. computer to play it?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
I'm very curious but really can't be bothered to search down the information: what are the final minimum and recommended system specs?
it's been awhile since i heard an imp gurgle, or a bfg go bzzzt...
;-)
do you think iddqd will still work?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
check date != 1st April
In other news, Duke nukem forever has been released, hell freezes over, and I get laid.
Is there any word on a port to OSX?
512 MB minimum RAM.
2+ Ghz CPU
Radeon 9800
Bah... it's cheaper to buy and Xbox + Doom3 Xbox.
Hurt me plenty...
Wait , i gotta comment with something smart... er..
Wooyay, Doom III is near !
Hope they don't pull a VALVe on us ;-)
Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 coming out soon, I think its time to upgrade from windows 95 :)
All spelling mistakes are due to solar flares...honest
I said it over a year ago, and I'll say it again -- I'll believe it when i get my grubby fingers on the install... and proceed to spend the next 72+ hours (hopefully +) glued to the screen.
Oh how i've missed my BFG / Chainsaw rampage...
BTW, anyone have access to one of these supposed "retailers" that can pick them up starting Aug. 3rd?
I'm your new best friend!
PC Gamer magazine reviewed Doom3 in its newest edition and gave the game a 94%.
Here is an interesting post in the nvNews boards, with the full review, hardware and multiplayer details
I would seriously like to see any statistics on the amount of PC hardware that is sold due to the arrival of games like Doom 3 / Half Life 2 / etc. Personally, I have been waiting for the last 2 years to upgrade, specifically for this game. My system has been okay for everything else I need to do, so it just didn't make sense to go out and build a system, knowing full well that I will be behind the tech curve when this games comes out.
I know some will think I am an idiot, but I am an unapologetic id fan. I have played most other FPS games out there, and id just seems to get the "feel" of FPS down to a science. The instant snap is perfect.
I just wish they had included cooperative mode, like in the original Doom. Some of my best gaming experiences were all night coop Doom on nightmare mode. Good times.
Todd
And you're in luck, if you have a 3.2GHZ with HyperThreading and the latest NVidia 6800 video card, you MIGHT get 10fps ;)
Maybe this is their reply to piracy.. the people who can afford really really good computers can probably easily afford to blow $50 on the game!
2GHz CPU 512 MB Ram Radeon 9800 5-Channel Audio
Supported Graphics Cards: Ge-Force 4 MX Ge-Force 3 Ge-Force 4 Titanium Ge-Force FX (and higher) ATI 8500, 9000 (and higher)
i wonder how much computer and video card sales will spike due to doom3. it's a killer app (pun intended!) for gamers. if I had money to spare, i'd definately buy a new computer and doom3, as well as all the other games i've missed out on since a pII 350MHz and gforce 2 became not enough muscle.
and I'm as freakin giddy over doom 3.
Finally, Im marking my calendar!!!
That's why I'm glad I graduated back in December... I planned ahead for this... although I was worried about HL2 coming out back in the fall of 03 and keeping me from graduating.
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Looks like you'll miss the office-wide lan party.
Nope, you can't take it back. I've already scheduled your vacation into the system.
- Your Boss
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hmm, lets figure this out... 1) Brand new gaming rig $1200 2) 2 Weeks of vacation time $3000 3) Using up all my vacation time starting Aug 3 and not being able to take time off to help my wife with our son who is expected in Sept and then getting a call from her divorce lawyer, PRICELESS wow...id games took so much of my life and now they are gonna take my marriage. btw, thanks for the free shipping!
Over on GameTab you can see the large version of the game box and information on the PC Gamer review. Only time will tell whether the other reviews and gamers fall in line with PC Gamer's opinion.
I guess the devil will take ice skates to work tomorrow.
Since there is going to be a tournament of Doom 3 on Quakecon, these scattered release dates kinda give an unfair advantages to the US competitors : IIRC QC starts at the 12th of Augusts, so people from mainland Europe, won't be able to play/practice it. :/
Hey, does anyone know what the minimum hardware REQ's ar....
errr...
Just tryin to be funny --
if (dry_sarcasm == funny) then
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RTFA -- not only does the article specifically state that the writer has no idea what the min specs are, neither would anyone else really.
Please no more posts about the hardware Req's -- you know damn well it'll be another 2 grand in parts to play this one.
Everywhere else will probably be Friday, August 13th [...] with just a few exceptions (e.g. Russia and Poland)
I guarantee you that it will be available on every street corner in Russia and Poland long before it is released anywhere else.
Unreal Tournament 1 kicks it's ass *and* it runs on a K6-300 with a Voodoo2 :O)
:O)
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I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born - Ronald Reagan
Oh yeah! :)
Thats one of the games I was waiting for sooo long
[Insert HalfLife 2 / Duke Nukem Forever joke here]
+++ MELON MELON MELON +++ Out of Cheese Error +++ redo from start +++
Following all the other thread's main points:
Just announced, 3D Realms accounced today that they have bought rights to use the Doom 3 engine in it's highly desired sequel Duke Nukem Forever. The expected release date is now marked as "Two days before Jesus returns".
Stock of AMD, Intel, NVidia and ATI are expected to raise 200% in the next following week... ;)
That is all
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Here's a system req discussion at Planet Doom.
I thought I'd never see another day like this one.
.plan file of id CEO Todd Hollenshead
No, not the release of Doom 3. To quote the poster:
According to the
Somebody's actually running a finger daemon, and it does more than just say "finger disabled for privacy reasons, try sending an e-mail".
as always from ID Software, a true gaming company who are well organized. Their games are always top notch bringing the greatest engines ever to be licensed. Quake 1 engine was revolutionnary. Same goes for Quake 3(no shit. been used for so many games) and now Doom 3! You can predict another 10 years for Duke Nukem Forever when 3dRealms will switch engines yet again :o
This was predicted cause of QuakeCon's D3 tournament and I heard it will in same time have a linux client installer similar to Epic Game's strategy with UT 2003/2004.
Anybody could confirm this or it's just rumors flying around?
I'm suppose to be moving into my new house that weekend. I probably won't have highspeed there yet either so no online play. Oh well, there's always single player :) And I'll have a group of gamers helping me move so we'll just play after that :D
10 years later, I have an aging 1.2 GHz box and GeForce 3 Ti200 video card. It appears little has changed. =)
to my time machine. Let us first go to august 5 2004 and laugh at these fools who thought they were actually going to play doom 3, and then we shall make our journey to the year 2080.
id always has been thorough and witty
;-)
perhaps i'll be hearing a "mein lieben!" again if i hit iddqd
or see a pain elemental if i hit idkfa? lol
ah good memories, soon to be reality again
go id!
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Will this even be released in Germany and if, can I have a date? I mean, it'll probably indexed because it's by iD Software (hey, it's a tradition!) so I doubt I'll hear about the release in any news outlets (because bringing news on indexed titles is advertising them and therefore illegal... D'Oh!). Means I'll need to know about it from a foreign source.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Where's the patch?
Anyone know who has the best pre-order goodies ? :)
I guarantee a TON of people are doing the exact same thing. I'm in the same boat as is another guy I know. All waiting for HL2 and doom 3. Well now that doom 3 has an official date its time to start buying.
Its really hard to find the new ati and nvidia cards though. A lot of places are backordered and many of them are charging jacked up prices which sucks.
INTC fell 10% today, despite profits (or was it revenues?) doubling. Good time to buy?
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
Only 150 replies so far to this big news....?
:P
Must be because it wont run on linux
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Now we just have to wait for the release dates forthe CPUs and Video Cards that can actually play the game.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
Time to dust off the "Testing the network..." excuse for the boss and the wife (I know, redundant).
Mod me troll, if you must, I can't help it.
When is the Mac OS X version being released?
mbbac
In related news, the Union Aerospace Coorporation has updated their site.
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Don't tell anyone!
What the grandparent neglected to mention was that 1) he's trying to make babies with two hot lesbians, and 2) he's a geneticist. :(
A monkey actually flew out of my butt this morning when I read this news. Can't wait to see how good it is. Hopefully this is not 'Daikatana part Deux'.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
...of course the frame rate may be a little low...
Anyone have recommendations on a video card that will run this, and still be (very) Linux-compatible?
Looks like we'll have a new benchmarking standard that the monster video cards will have to meet.
One of my friends and I just (today) designed and ordered our systems from NewEgg. We both got Athlon64 3000+, radeon 9800 pro 128, 1 gb ram (from pricewatch), case, hd, dvd burner, and motherboard. About 850$. Right now I think AMD is sitting high on the hog because their processors were faster and cheaper while everyone is upgrading. Also, the xbox version of doom 3 will have coop.
And it isn't silly to upgrade your hardware now to run doom 3 and halflife 2 - if you can run these two games well, then you can probably run any game made in the next 3 years fine. Now is the last minute to upgrade and keep up with current software.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
My grades were bad enough last semester without something like this. Oh dear god...maybe I should drop out now and not even pay the tuition.
I seem to remember a bunch of non believers trying to insult me when I said the 3rd of August was the date. I said come on, I run the Texas Gaming Festival, I go to E3 every year for AMDZone, and my brother writes for Voodoo. Perhaps you should listen to what I had said. You guys didn't. I'm awaiting your apologies. Anyway, this opens us up to have our Doom III tourney as we had planned at TXGF Summer 2004 Dallas the weekend before Quakecon. Sweet.
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My boss is angry because since this news broke, there has been a constant stream of poop coming out of my butt. Doom 3 has literally caused me to poop my pants.*
*not true. =)
Bets anyone? I say July 30th.
Corporations: your universal scapegoat for all society's ills.
I find it hard to believe that people will actually go out and drop $200 on new video card just to play this on par with the recommended requirements (Radeon 9800).
I just bought a card in November 2003 (Radeon 9600), it's top f'n notch, yet it won't run on par w/ the recommendations? Haha, nice.
People are gonna be very disappointed when they realize they'll need to drop another $150-200 just to play it on TOP of the $50 it costs to buy it.
Christmas list for most people: Doom 3 WITH Radeon 9800 card. Otherwise.. forget it, the game will run like ass, might as well not even buy it.
Maybe people HERE won't be disappointed due to the geek factor, but I know tons of gamers who were really lookin forward to playing this that are just bummed that they either gotta miss out completely or drop the cash for a new card.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
They want their joke back.
Check it out at nV News.
Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Wheaties: Breakfast of Champions.
...because I don't think my P3 733 will handle it
Now I can blow Imps into chunks again with the double barreled shotgun! (assuming they have it in Doom3). Nothing quite like the deep gutteral URRRRGGGAAAHHHh they make :)
Betweem this, Battle for Middle Earth, Half-Life2 and STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl .. this year is going to be fantastic for PC games.
Part of the Bush administrations plot to distract us during the critical pre-election lies!
Joe Sixpacks, defender of the common man.
I wouldn't be surprised if you see it in the next couple of days. It all depends on whether someone in the scene can get their hands on the gold, or whether we need to wait for retail.
Someone will, through a review site, dupe factory, etc.. They always do.
Till someone steals the source code and puts it up on bit torrent. Sure it's never happened before but it could, er... what? It has?
:) But I can produce a lick-able ical calender...
Ah shit. At least I have a mac and can't play it anyway
At least we still have warcraft 3! just like everybody else
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A simple google brings up this.
So there is going to be coop, but XBox only (WHY?!?!!?!).
^_^
(Doom 3 was meant to come out Christmas '03, but it didn't)
Dashing through the demons,
in a single player eff-pee-ess,
through the corridors we go, shrieking all the way!
Ahh-ha-ha-ha!
Belts on chainguns fling, barrels blazing bright,
what fun it is to kill and sing a slaying song tonight!
Ohhh.. Doom in hell, Doom in hell, iD's game is almost here!
Oh what a price it is to buy, just fifty four ninety niiii-ine!
Pick it up at Best Buy, EB Games, or Gamespot!
DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing!
I think I just wet myself!
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Since this is Slashdot, he's probably been busy trying to build a child in the basement.
--LordPixie
Does anyone have any info if D3 will take advantage of a dual-cpu system?
I picked up a 5200, and too my suprise it was much slower than my GF3 Ti200. The passive 5200 kicks ass for HTPC though.
... and that you can adjust on screen fonts (like Unreal Tournament but unlike F*r cry)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
See, you people let little things like elitism get in the way of having a fun time. If you people would just shut the fuck up about hating the xbox for two seconds, you might see some cool stuff coming out for it.
Oh wait, this is /. Oh well, I'll just be busy enjoying co-op on my rented version of Doom 3 from Gamefly (I'll probably end up buying the PC version) while you're busy writing your next "10 REASONS WHY XBOX SUX LOL" list.
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion
I'm sure the Russian mafia will do its job - they won't be waiting until August 13th. Probably more like next week.
Loser. Who hates the Xbox anyway?
Quack, quack.
...and my vacation hours at work expire July 20. :/
I think playing DNF will be the least of your worries...
Can any slashdotters divulge the channels through which the common man is acquiring nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultras, ATI Radeon X800 XTs, and X800 XT Platinums?
You failed the holy hell out of that one!
I have come to the sad relization that I can't afford to upgrade my PC to run this beast (picturing the wife's face as I explain the need for $800 of upgrade to play a game) - but I could swing an Xbox (especially used). So any word on how long after the xbox version will ship??
Ahh yes... 3 AM, and stuck in a room with one of those rocket-demon badasses, watching 3 or 4 of my previous bodies still dying. I loved college. :)
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INTC fell 10% today, despite profits (or was it revenues?) doubling. Good time to buy?
It will probably be better in a few weeks. I saw an article (which I cannot find now) that said that Intel's stock fell after they reported an excess of inventory. So apparently, something's not being bought. Hopefully it will lower the prices in the stores.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
personally I'm beginning to worry about that. Maybe I'm wrong but blaming a delay on code theft (theft != destruction) really made me wonder.
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.
I've been using this thread:
t =3 0155
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?
To check on the various sites. I also signed up to be notified when they come in stock at various places. So far nothing. I'm hoping the supply will be better at the end of July. Here's hoping that ATI and Nvidia have been ramping up production to flood the market in time for Doom to hit the shelves.
Right? I'll be able do download part of the game for free, right?
My computer which is two years old has no problems with Far Cry, UT 2004 (at high settings) or Doom 3 when it comes along.
High settings with Far Cry with a 9700 or a 9500? Yeah right. What cha running it at 640x480? I don't even run my P4 2.4 Ghz 1GB ram and 9800 pro 128 at full settings. (1280x1024)
If anything, it'll boost sales of AMD chips, they have a much larger following among gamers 'cuz of the price/performance ratio. For a random data point, over at [H]ard|OCP's forums, there's like five times the traffic in the AMD board than there is on the Intel board.
Grr. Slashcode's eating my hyperlinks again. [H] = http://www.hardocp.com
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
It's all falling into place.
Doom 3.
Soon Half-life 2.
The second coming of Jesus.
Joss Whedons Firefly movie, "Serenity" opens (April 22nd)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
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That has to be one of my favorite sigs that I have seen on slashdot. Good job.
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
My guess is a.b.c.i.g is going be to getting refreshed hourly by millions for eager fans for the next two weeks. :)
Personally I'm just really interested to see how it runs compared to the Alpha. I want to see if they really did improve the performance at all. I do remember how they were very convcenred that people would see how bloated and slow the Alpha was an not buy the game. My guess is its still the same pig and that a ton of upgrading is in order. btw any news of an actual demo coming out before it ships?
Given the tendency to release games too early, I suspect that this one will be playable around the time they get the fifth patch out in October.
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Thanks for the information. I wish my system would take a GeForce 6, but it's a Shuttle XPC with a 250 Watt power supply. Even if they fit, I couldn't count on them to run... which is sad, before I knew about the power requirements I was planning to run nVidia.
Thank God for Doom3 not being released through Steam (as HL2). :-)
Anyone have any news on an OS X port? Seems like this was all but certain at the gestation of the development process when Carmack ran an early demo on a Mac with an NVIDIA card a few years ago.
But I haven't read anything recently on anything except the PC and XBOX versions.
Any news on playable demos before August 5th? :(
I am surprised there were no public beta tests/demos like previous id Software's games (e.g., Quake).
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Duke 3D did not use Doom ][ engine. This is common knowledge.
After the advent of Far Cry does anyone even care about Doom 3 any more? I'll be interested in seeing the reviews before I put any money out for D3.
The've updated http://www.ua-corp.com/ with a flash intro which shows a countdown to an "inbound transmission" (a.k.a the "release date"?)
This is an interesting display in how much we've let our standards go in regards to gaming. While there is all this salivating over the fact that DOOM III is finally fucking done, I've yet to hear any mention about a possible demo release. I was too young to experience it firsthand, but I recall hearing about BBS systems and FTPs being brought to a complete standstill when the original shareware copy of DOOM was released back in 93 or 94 as everyone tried to get their grubby little paws on it. Who cares if the final version has gone gold? As gamers it's only fair that we're able to download a demo before we trust the words of a "exclusive" review. Games like this get hyped for so long, and the pre-order BS get's pushed down your throat everytime you step into a GameStop, that it seems no game is sold on merit anymore. Personally I won't be impressed with anything until I can actually play a little taste of the game without having to pay id a cent.
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Is it me, or did it just get fatter in here?
Welcome our new demonic hellspawn overlords.
Anyone knows the hardware specs to run it into low, medium, high and extreme quality?
Other than the latest 3d card, what is the cpu/mem requirements?
will a FX5950 and a 6800 run it the same way, or will the 6800 really outpeform the 5950?
You know, all you guys who constantly called Doom 3 "vaporware" for absolutely no reason. It's not like the game was delayed, it's not like there was never any progress shown at E3. Yet for some reason I never understood, it became a running joke among some people here on Slashdot that Doom 3 would never come out or that it was vaporware.
Anyway, please step forward so we can help you pull your foot out of your mouth. You were wrong.
In that case, could I perhaps interest you in some oceanfront property in Arizona?
I need the cheat codes ASAP!! Need godmode or its all over......
I can't wait for someone to post a "Doom 3 GM" torrent that downloads goatse.cx
I could swear somewhere in the early marketing phase they said Doom III was more optimized for Nvidia Geforce cards. Where as half-life 2 was better for ATI cards.
Last time I checked a 1 GHz PIII was comparable to a 1.6 GHz P4. Does that hold true here or is the P4 required?
Did I say anything about the XBox?!
Have fun with the XBox.
My grudge was cuz it won't be available for MY favorite gaming platform which is the PC.
^_^
Anybody notice that the screen shots look similiar to Half-Life? Is it that the engines are approaching the same abilities? Screen Shots
I'm not getting the hell freezing over people either, it's not like it's Duke Nukem Forever or something (or Half-Life 2, coming out ten months ago!)
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
Don't worry - I think they're just preparing Duke Nukem Forever to run on Longhorn.
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Shouldn't Duke Nukem Forever be in Gold Master Hyper Ultra Mega Ultimate XTREME status by now?
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Hey, the release date is on my birthday! Anybody want to give me a Doomed birthday?
Does HP sell to foreign countries? In other words, is HP's market globalized? Then why should their workforce be American? They can only grow their US market so much and then they have to look beyond the borders to find more customers. It's only natural and fair to look beyond the US borders for suppliers and consumers, even those suppliers that supply labor.
I agree, I don't see why people do this either. It was officially announced only a few years ago and then the *rumored* release date was pushed back *once*. The first *official* release date "this summer" is looking to be correct.
Screenshots and trailers were released fairly early on to show that it was in fact real.
id's policy has always been to release things when they're done, and it's always been worth the wait. Doom3 has not taken an inordinatedly long time or anything. Compare this to Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana. DNF was announced around the time Quake came out. It's still not out, or showing any signs of being out soon. Doom3 was hinted at (as I remember) a little while before RTCW came out and officially announced afterwards. It's officially coming out soon. We've been waiting...what, maybe 3 years since first unofficially hearing about it? Yes, it sucked that it didn't come out last May like was rumored, but that was never officially announced, and thus, can't be counted against id or Doom3.
I predict that the release of this game will have so many computer geeks, nerds, gamers, etc. (I'm in all those categories) out of the office for most of August that the following will happen:
IronChefMorimoto
It's not common knowledge you fucking idiot. Only little pimply faced losers would consider this "common knowledge".
Fuckhead
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/doom3/index.html
At least you can check out these live video feeds for free.
Does any major commercial game these days make any good use out of dual-CPU systems? Or do they still just use one processor?
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
Not to detract from the funny, but from what I've heard the multiplayer is going to be co-op only, for whatever bizarre reason. Quake 4, anybody?
Will "idkfa" still work?
Gold version releases are strongly looked down apon in the scene due to companies frequently tagging them. The last gold released was Far Cry and it pissed a lot of people off because it WAS tagged. its against scene rules and it will probably be nuked off instantly. Sources being protected usually comes before getting the first release out. Just in case any one cares =)
Didn't 3D Realms create Max Payne and Max Payne 2 in the meantime? Maybe they should've named it Duke Nukem Forever instead.
the patches are available? PC games always have bugs in them. This is understandable because of the daunting requirement of hardware compatibility for so many different configuration. However, I don't know of too many big popular games that didn't have some pretty nasty bugs in their initial release.
I head a rumor that it's being shrink-wrapped and bundled along with MS Longhorn. ;)
I mean, it's an FPS. People mod games. They're going to add it in manually. Will it be in there before the Xbox launch?
So that's why nVidia produced that large-and-in-charge unethical=SLI edition of their graphics accelerator. The "Utra" mode of Doom III was suggested to require upon an non-retail existance of a 3.4 GHz Intel CPU or equivalent system architecture. SLI mode of *any technology would render Doom III to perfection, but ID Software, Inc didn't exhibit (from CEO TODD) wether SMP will benefit Doom III. But I degause (digress), I think we'll be seeing those Intel Inside stickers yanked off to say nVidia inside as it may no longer be a crapshoot to upgrade the system architecture; nVidia SLI will be benefactor of all applications as SLI scales the application without knowing about SLI.
/s/ The Alpha Troll
I'm buying stock in nVidia Inc and then some of that elusive "phantom" stock from ID Software Inc.
Sincerily,
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So, the next question is release dates.
And right after that: what hardware do I need to run Doom3, what is the MSRP and how many vital organs should I plan on selling in order to cover the costs?
Release date for Doom III == final day of LinuxWorld.
Coincidence?
If they were friggin' brilliant they would have a Linux build, an ongoing lan game, and a huge mountain of units shrinkwraped and ready-to-sell.
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Will there be an actual retail boxed release for Linux, or will this be like other recent games that run on Linux: You have to buy the Windows media, copy the data files from it, and then download the Linux engine to run it?
I'll buy it either way (and run it on my Linux box), but I'd really like the retailer I buy it from to know that my purchase is for a Linux platform.
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Nice that they mentioned Poland, unlike movie industry, id software seems to be realistic and they know well that here in Poland we have Doom 3 already (you insensitive clods).
On they other hand they know as well as we do that in Poland we're not going to have the proper hardware to run the game at least until 2006 when there will enough computers stolen from other EU countries.
Funny but sad but true.
I've been waiting to upgrade for ages (still have a dual p3-450), I've pretty much decided on the NVIDIA 6800 GT Ultra (or whatever the top of the line 6800 is named), but I'm really not sure about if I should go AMD or Intel:
- p4 3.4C + asus p4c-800 deluxe
- athlon64 3200 754 pin + asus k8v deluxe
- athlon64 3500 939 pin + asus a8v deluxe
what do people here think would be the best route? For the first time in a LONG time I'm leaning towards AMD more than Intel, but who knows... how well are the athlon64s supported in Linux btw?
Also I know that PCI Express is coming out, but I'm not interested in waiting another 6 months and then having early-adopter pains.
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I thought we were all out of jobs already..
if you read the forums over at sfftech.com, you'll see that a majority of the shuttles out there have no problem running a GeForce 6800 or GeForce 6800 GT (single slot, single molex power). Apparently those 250w power supplies really pack a punch. You can't run the Ultra, at least easily, as it's a double wide/ 2 slot card and literally won't fit in the case if it were to be closed up.
The second coming of Jesus.
I haven't heard about that one. Who is publishing it? Does anyone have any screenshots?
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no graven images: no screen shots.
And the medium is delivered door-to-door by a dove, which is rather despised and oft shot-at fps-style by the Satanic society aka Jehova's Witnesses Corporation.
To my understanding, this media delivered through the dove is one of those touchy-feely type games; it's in braile.
What's the damn holdup with the transition to DVD games? I'm fed up with this Multi-CD crap.
Bye grades!
For once I'm glad I have a GF2.
Oh wai... People down the hall will invariably have good hardware. I'm doomed.
(that's an unfortunate pun.)
Does it have cheat codes or us lame gamers will have to watch somebody else finish it ? :-)
Doom is one of the best games ever.
I have fond memories from about 9 or 10 years ago sitting in IRC channels with other geeks waiting for the files to appear on IDs FTP server, and miracously stumbling upon them one night after they were just released.
It's too bad ID doesn't do that kind of thing anymore, it was fun to have something as soon as the code was locked down.
We need iTunes for games!!
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Scott, really, do you think that by hiding behind your Anonymous Coward tag that we don't know who you are?
I also miss coop-mode. There are not many games that have coop-multiplayer (which is sad), but those that have often rock. For example: Doom I + II and Quake I + II.
:(
Doom I and Quake II is probably the best cooperative multiplayer experiences! They have great action and some puzzles here and there that was fun to solve together with a friend. Just as it is fun to watch a movie together with some friends - it is fun to share a story-based cooperative gaming experience together.
It is understandable that Id's last title, Quake III, did not have cooperative play (since it had no singleplayer mode). But I think it is a shame that Id has chosen to abandon this nice tradition with their Doom III title, especially since, AFAIK, Doom is ment to be their singleplayer series - so we can expect no more coop from Id, I guess..
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Come on, if UT2K4 could ship with a DVD version, why not not DOOM3? Given the insanely high volumes this release is certain to generate, is the one-time cost of creating a DVD master really that significant?
And here I thought the days of "insert disk 17" were finally numbered...
chap that invented that crazy "project grizzly" armoured suit?
Nah, it was profits, but you have to realize that there's a great deal of cyclicity and seasonality in the chip market and everyone had higher-than-double expectations, which was why the stock was so high. That and the fact that the only up surprise and the most concentrated profit center was in mobile chips and not processors.
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I think the best way to enjoy Doom3 is not reading any of the reviews; after all, at this point you will either play it or you wont. Reading Gamespot's hype about it is pointless, as you only increase your expectations of a game, that lets face it, is not going to set new boundries of gameplay (though I will say nothing of its graphics). Id rather walk to the table with nothing but a couple screen shots in mind and enjoy it as it comes. Atleast then I can say I judged it on its own without (many) preconceptions.
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Carmack has said it'll run on hardware was state-of-the-art a couple of years ago, so most people probably won't be upgrading.
...post the bit.torrent link?
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What about Canada? I doubt the UK will get it before us!
All is prevelant in the world...
Car dealer: Here's our latest spiffiest model the D3! Wanna buy it?
You: Can I take it for a test drive?
Car Dealer: no sorry. We don't allow that any more.
You: so basically it looks really cool, but if I don't like the way it drives, I'm stuck with it? No try before you buy?
Car dealer: ummmm sorry I can't let you test drive this.
You: riiiiiiiiiiiiiight... I'll be going over to your competitor over there. Bye!
The parent post is utter crap. Software is the only package that people have tremendous difficulty returning because of restrictions and such, and games are the worst. If a Game is buggy and I don't like it I should be able to return it. If its going to be so hard to return things, throw me a bone by giving me a demo to try it out first. It's being good to the consumer.
But of course, what do I know? I must be the only one who shares the sentiment of the person you replied to. All the other players who will buy this must love to get screwed by yet another game company.
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I am looking to get a new laptop in a few weeks (probably from Circuit City) and the laptops seem to have 'special' versions of other video cards. What kind of laptop card will work 'well' with Doom3?
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Yeah, in the sense that EA created Battlefield 1942, which is to say not at all. Remedy is the developer, 3D Realms print the pretty boxes.
I'm still gonna wait for HL2.
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It was Remedy Entertainment that created the Max Paynes. (Remedy is those former Future Crew guys who didn't go to FutureMark/MadOnion nor Bitboys.)
But I think 3D Realms was somehow involved, as a distributor maybe? Or was it Gathering Of Developers... can't remember offhand.
Run the game like a Real American Hero;u lt.asp? Submit=Go&DEPA=0
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Continuing your example of a Car Salesman...
...
Did the Car Salesman not show you the box the car was delivered, that the car has demonic-inspired control mechanisms and its stereo randomnly chooses a curse word based on which area of town you arrived at?
Doom3 Marine: Welcome to Hell Michigan, plenty of fags here to smoke!
Doom3 Marine: Welcome to Hellhole Idaho, entrance to the pit holding Lucifer's bitches.
But we all know the Doom3 Marine will be forgiven, because its actualy the Duke; Nukem in disguise under that helmet! Yea! Shake it baby! I wanna dance!
And when children are skilled to operate machinery at a mere thirteen years after witnessing the sun orbiting around planet earth, would it be mis-leading for a corporation as Hot Rod Magazine to exclaim this car as the "best of all time" yet ever quality of the car doesn't necessarily reveal the lack of certain qualities dependent upon a child such as A, B, and C?
What the hell was PC Gamer smoking in their crackpipe besides bannanas?
I knew there was a reason my asshole has been tingling lately. Good 'ol asshole. Never wrong about sensing upcoming major events.
Does anyone know if this release is for all the platforms (Linux, Windows, and Mac), or just for Windows?
Correct if I'm wrong (and I am sure I'm not), but Build engine has nothing whatsoever to do with DOOM's, codewise. Both sourcecodes have been available for some time now. Perhaps parent meant that it had similar capabilities as DOOM's 2 engine?
Where is that guy who'd die defending what I had to say when I need him?
I have this thing called caution. Too many good companies have suddenly put out a piece of crap. Without a reasonable return policy, I won't just spend 60 bucks on 'trust'. However, this point isn't really a problem, I'll just wait and see what people I trust have too say.
I would like a demo to see how well it runs on my machine. If it will involve 1000 dollar upgrade, I'd like to know in advance. No, I odn't trust the 'recommended' and 'minimal' specs released with a game.
They could make a demo version that was a side bar to the story. Or perhaps just release the first 30 minutes of gameplay.
Comparing a game deom to a chapter of a book is probably the stupidest thing I've read today.
When I go to the book store I don't have to worry about any hardware to get at the contents. I do get a blurb on the jacket, and I don't have to worry about the graphics.
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Soon......real soon.....
The railgun and footsteps set the tone for the next generation of deathmatching.
A vast improvement IMO.
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Wow, thanks for the information. Thank you very much.
I realise this is fairly trivial, but does anyone know if the Euro version will be on CDROM or DVD? The US edition will be CDROM, but for some reason several people seem to think it will be a Far Cry situation where us euro's have a DVD. None of the e-tailers seem to know either.
Worth the couple of extra days wait IMHO, and an extra couple of whatever your monetary deonomination is. Multiple CDs suck, bleeding edge games on outdated storage. OK so I'm lazy and hate watching install progress bars crawl along, interspersed with "please insert disk labelled 'disk six'".
ps. carmack, add a sneaky command switch for a retro install screen.
Speaking of graphics cards, I have an Nvidia GEForce FX 5600.
Will this card be worth a shit to run this game?
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Humously. I like it!
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I think you're more than a little confused here. Video cards have been increasing in power at a pretty high rate. Sound cards have NOT. Increases in power have been going up very irregularly, and moreover, they've been growing at a rate many times slower than CPU increases. In fact, if I were to guess, I'd probably say that even RAM has been increasing in speed faster.
If a sound engine was something as ridiculously simple as playing back wave files with positional 3d audio and mixing multiple channels, then of course, it'd be pretty fast in EAX... but it would still have higher latency than a software implementation because that PCI bus is so slow. Unlike video cards which are never fast enough, what the hell do we need to do with soundcards -- at least, inasmuch as how heavily they're being utilized now. And we've got enough bandwidth for sound... I mean we can send 64-odd channels of CD-quality uncompressed audio to the sound card without really stressing the PCI bus bandwidth-wise. And CPUs are fast enough that something as simple as mixing is really fast.
More importantly, there's a lot you can do in software that will probably never in a million years be doable in hardware sound... like really thorough occlusion, for instance.
And I suggest you look at FMOD, it's many many times faster than any hardware sound. Look at UT a little more closely -- it will show a speed up on modern machines when you switch to software as opposed to SBLive EAX and such.
Here it is, the full review:
THE WORLD-EXCLUSIVE FIRST REVIEW
You've waited years. Now the wait is over. PC Gamer was the only publication in the world to review Doom 3 a split-second after id declared it "Done." We thought we were ready...
Turn out the lights. Get the surround-sound speakers in place. And say goodbye to sanity for the next 20-odd hours. The guys at id Software are famous for delivering a game "when it's done" - and we're here to tell you that Doom 3 is not only done, it's mind-blowing.
The game opens up with your arrival at Mars Research Facility of the massive United Aerospace Corporation. It's the year 2145, and you're a Marine newly assigned to the facility's security detail. For the first 15 minutes, you're not even issued a weapon - the action unfolds in a pace reminiscent of the opening of Half-Life, as you get oriented around the security building and watch some video primers on your new job and new home. In this opening act, you're familiarized with your Personal Digital Assistant, which will be your invaluable interface throughout the rest of the game. Using this handy gadget, you can download info from other people's PDAs as you come across them, adding codes, access keys, and emails that contain crucial information you'll need to progress through the 28 maps to follow. Here's what you really spend those first 15 minutes doing: gawking. This is your chance to absorb the full shock of magnificent graphics engine put to stunning use. The environments are huge-scale and packed with detail. The base is a convincing Mars Station - less a far-future design than a depressingly post-modern corporate park. It feels lived-in, too - from the skin mags scattered on the kitchenette tables to the nastiest in the public rest-room toilet bowls.
But no sooner do you get oriented with your gear - and with the very cool physics model that lets you rearrange just about any object in the place - then all hell breaks loose. Literally.
The base is hammered by a shockwave of satanic force, and immediately discover that almost everyone around you has turned into a flesh eating zombie - with a mindless devotion to snacking on you. Worse yet, the base has been invaded by a horde of nightmarish demons. Cut off from your fellow Marines (and stalked by some of their well armed zombie versions!), you've got only a comm link with your still human Sarge to steer you to safety
DOOM AND THEN SOME
For those expecting a "classic" run and gun Doom game play, the biggest surprise may be just how substantial this game is. If you try to blaze through any of these 28 missions you WILL be humiliated. Instead the only route to access is a slow and steady one, sticking to shadows, searching every nook and crany for health, ammo, and access keys, and generally advancing as methodically as you can.
You've also got to figure out what's happening. As you make your way through the different levels of the base, the pilot is revealed via the PDAs you pick up, and in brief conversations with the few NPCs who weren't "turned" by the satanic attack. To make your way through the inevitably sealed-off access doors between levels, you'll have to read through email that progressively reveals a conspiracy of apocalypse proportions - the nefarious scheme of psychotic Dr. Betruger, UACs chief scientist, who's perverted a teleportation to open up a portal into hell-like dimension. (Oh and if you didn't notice Dr. Betruger is also keen on transporting his hellion army to earth.)
Gear is an absolute premium. All the old Doom weapons are back, but preciously rationed, and with an ever dwindling supply of ammo for each. The shotgun is your basic in close sledge hammer, while the assault rifle is your best down hallway exchanges with armed zombie marines. The chain gun provides a heavy punch for those hectic occasions when you need to yell "LETS ROCKKKK!" The plasma rifle was my personal fav, dealin' streams of fiery blue death, although it runs out of ammo quickly. The rocket laun
You know that +1, Funny doesn't count for karma anymore, right?
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
really cannot see the point in playing any of these games in anything other than God mode....
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Man, the just figures, after searching, and hunting, and downloading numerious fakes, viruses, trojans, and god knows what else, I finally get a copy of the beta and it's being released.
Guess maybe I should take the time to find the Half Life 2 beta, then it will be released.
oh, and I bet that's why Duke Nuke'm Forever isn't coming out, it's beta never got leaked/stolen/hacked to the general public yet...
Be seeing you...
And still no need for a DVD drive in a computer in 2004 if you don't watch movies on your computer, the game was announced on CD. Lucky, I only got cd-rom drives.
from a linux-gamers.net post on doom3
Doom3 is more dependant on the system's performance not gfx. - Posted by Anonymous -
Reply | Reply with History | Jul 14 2004 18:19:43 | 4.8.233.207
It's just a big program and the system's processor and RAM is the weak area. If you choose any host equivalent to a AthlonXP 2100+ or a Pentium IV 2.4GHZ then you may choose any graphics accelerator and Doom3 will run fine.
Let's see here...
that means you can use a Matrox G400, 3Dfx Voodoo4 or Voodoo5, nVidia GeForce2 or TNT2, PowerVR Kyro, or anything greater.
Here follows a website URL containing many screenshots of Doom3 Alpha rendered on a 3Dfx Voodoo5 (single VSA100, equivalent to Voodoo4) upon a Athlon 2200+; http://www.doom3.zarovka.com/
One thing I haven't figured out is what they recommend in terms of an AMD Athlon CPU for a minimum system to work well with Doom 3.
Is it an Athlon XP 1500+? Or is it an Athlon XP CPU that has a core CPU speed of 1.5 GHz?
The chief job of a book's first chapter--heck, the first page--is to get the reader salivating for more.
You're trying to tell me that giving a potential reader/player that preliminary taste of the story would be COUNTERPRODUCTIVE?
WTF?
There are quite a places in Duke3D that were actually on top of each other and not cheated, off the top of my head I would say the spiral staircase in Hollywood Holocaust (episode 1 level 1) does show the build engine is capable of rooms over rooms. You can see where they cheat things by using your map and you will sometimes get "transported" somewhere else. There are numerous times that they just flattened sprites and made them solid in order to make bridges and other things to simulate multiple levels. So yes they did cheat by transporting you when you did things like going under water but the build engine is capable of doing rooms over rooms.
I guess I'm kinda pissed off at the amount of console elitism around here and went too trigger happy with your post. Sorry about that.
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion
Hmm... looking at the screenshots, the details, the lighting, reading up on the physics, and the new sound system... I'm guessing a demo would weigh in at about 600 megs. Zipped.
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- Millhouse
Does this make my brain look big?
Lets take a look at some dates...to place things in perspecive:
1993: Doom released
1994: Doom II released
1996: Duke Nukem 3D 1.0 came out using modified Doom II engine
1996: Quake released
1997: Quake II released
1999: Quake III released
2004: Doom III released.
So, Id's had 6 major releases in the past 11 years and in the time that 3D Realms has been working on ONE Duke Nukem Forever, Id has had 4 whole games come out.
Let's face it folks, Duke Nukem Forever isn't coming out. 8 years for one game?
Look here mate!
3D Realms Games:
+ Many more before these
1991: Duke Nukem I (PC)
1993: Monster Bash (PC)
1993: Duke Nukem II (PC)
1994: Wacky Wheels (PC)
1994: Raptor: Call of the Shadows (PC)
1996: Death Rally (PC)
1996: Duke Nukem (PC)
1997: Shadow Warrior (PC)
1997: Balls of Steel (PC)
1998: Duke Nukem: Time to Kill (PS)
1999: Duke Nukem (GBC)
1999: Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (N64)
2000: Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes (PS)
2001: Max Payne (PC/PS2/Xbox)
2001: Duke Nukem Advance (GBA)
2002: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (PC)
2003: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PC/PS2/Xbox)
That's a lot more major releases than Id ever have done.
SHIT SHIT SHIT.
4 1/2 weeks to get a decent monitor,
reinstall windows and get a decent videocard.
Ebay hear i come.
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Can someone here with the know-how speculate on what API id are likely to have used? I was under the impression that the Windows version mixes OpenGL for rendering with DirectInput for interface and probably DirectSound for audio.
Is OpenAL the likely candidate for Doom 3 Linux audio, or am I misunderstanding how the engine works?
This should be out just in time for my redundancy! ;D
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Plus, it's open source (LGPL)!
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... so you'll probably have to settle for the UK version.
Any fanboys wanna buy doom3d@gmail.com from me? Send an email!
"Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 coming out soon, I think its time to upgrade from windows 95"
Or, in my case, I think it's time to revive my MS-Windows partition.
Sorry, Linux, but a geek's gotta do what a geek's gotta do.
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I had been considering getting the FX5200.. but of course such a passionate outpouring of utter disgust from the worlds biggest resorvoir of ppl who play too many video games (thats a complement :) certainly set me straight.
Thanks for the replies!