Official Doom 3 Benchmarks Released

Rogerpq3 writes "Before the game goes on sale, id Software has been kind enough to release some benchmarks for DOOM 3 with the latest video cards on the market from NVIDIA & ATI. HardOCP has published the five page article which should help anyone trying to decide if they should upgrade their video card for DOOM 3. There's also an introductory note from John Carmack, mentioning: 'The benchmarking was conducted on-site, and the hardware vendors did not have access to the demo before hand, so we are confident that there is no egregious cheating going on.', and the HardOCP writers comment: 'As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience.'"

Comments

RE: Nvidia

[rdilallo]

I'm just glad I won't have to go out and upgrade my video card for this game. Seems like every time there's a new game out, I'm upgrading.

Oh, yeah, Linux is better than Windows... blah blah blah.

How about an Amiga port?

[Amiga Lover]

Any news on the possibility of an Amiga port? The new Amigas have some awesome hardware. G3 800mhz or higher than 1GHz G4 cpus, DDR and some kind of Radeon.

I think it's a quite obviously untapped market there for games authors, an entire community that grew up on THE games machine clamoring for more.

Re:How about an Amiga port?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any news on the possibility of an Amiga port? The new Amigas have some awesome hardware. G3 800mhz or higher than 1GHz G4 cpus, DDR and some kind of Radeon.

What would be really cool is an iPod port because iPod is awesome and it has a screen, a processor, and some kind of scroll wheel with clickable buttons.

More or less than 1 fps

[Radix37]

That's the most important question... would my p3-450 with a voodoo2 break 1 fps or not?

Re:More or less than 1 fps

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got the solution to your Doom 3 problems.

Even heard of chess by e-mail? My company has just opened a subscription-based service--Doom3ByEmail.com.

You allocate a frame subscription of your chosen duration with any major credit card, we send you a rendered frame from your own personalized Doom 3 game, you send us an XML file containing directional commands, and we send you the resulting frame...

Who said Doom 3 wouldn't run on your PDA?

So does this mean...

[Alex Reynolds]

...I won't need to sell some organs on the black market, after all?

older hardware?

[martin-boundary]

For those of use who are still stuck on Intel 386 hardware with a VGA card, can somebody please convert those benchmarks into something understandable? Also, if I did upgrade to more recent hardware, how many extra monsters could I have in DOOM1 for the same frame rate? Ach, mein Leben!

Re:Might possibly upgrade...

[Anonymous Coward]

I read this post twice and I still can't figure out what you're trying to say. Needs more 31337.

Re:yea i agree with this

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, it's highly doubtful that he really thinks "they" is spelled "htey," and "them" is spelled "htem." On the other hand, some people really think that "embarrassed" is spelled "embarassed."

It's EMBARRASSED. Can you say EMBARRASSED? Yeah. I knew that you could.

Here's a link to the dictionary, in case anybody's too stupid to look it up on their own: EMBARRASSED

By surprisingly good they mean something subtle

[abionnnn]

They were surprised it even ran on a GeForce4 MX 440. That in itself is a good gaming experience. ;)

Re:yea i agree with this

[Anonymous Coward]

Best spelling-nazi post ever!

Re:Maybe Doom3 is too *conservative* on hardware!?

[_damnit_]

Well, I am rather disappointed in the resolution they chose for the top end. I have a nice widescreen monitor which does 1920 x 1200. I know others who have highend gear (for other purposes than gaming) which far exceed that. In my case, I just want 1920x1200 at highest quality textures and AA over 30fps since I'm LCD. I have my doubts that I'll get there without dropping some cash on a new vid card since I run a Radeon 9600 Pro.
I don't think that the current batch of cards is going to "handle" very high resolutions with AI involved or network functions in the background. Wait until someone creates the ultimate benchmark with 32 players in some massive rocket launch deathmatch. Those fps will dive and give rise to cries of frustration from the fps chasers.
This is going to be the rallying cry for hundreds of dumbass CompUSA employees:

You need this $400 video card from Nvidia to really enjoy D3. (Pause) What's PCI express? You don't want PCI. You want an AGP card cause they're faster.

I'm sorry about that last bit. I had some idiot at CompUSA point me to the wireless section when I was asking for USB cables today. He said he thought I wanted "wireless USB". A fucking wireless USB cable?!? They never cease to amaze me.

Sweeeet!

[Horizon_99]

This is the coolest thing I've heard so far about the game:

Talking to John briefly about his overclocking comments made some things clear to us that many enthusiasts will need to be aware of. When he speaks of "new usage patterns" he is literally talking about transistors on some of new GPUs that are going to be used for the first time when you play DOOM 3 on your video card. So be aware that pushing your GPU MHz may get you different results in DOOM 3 than with other games.

Yeah, bring my card to it's knees JC!

Hey just realized while typing this that JC's initals are JC, it all makes sense...

Re:The word is "its".

[Adriax]

1000 posts a day on slashdot that look like they were created by an epileptic monkey, and you go psychotic on this guy over the difference betwen "its" and "it's"...

Or an IBM XT Port

[BlackHawk-666]

I've been working with ID on a port of Doom III to the IBM XT for those die-hards who refuse to upgrade. Here's a sample from the first level which will be released for free:

You are in a twisty little maze of passages all alike. There is a pink demon here.
Use rocket launcher
You died. Play again?