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DOOM 3 Final Video Trailer Released
Ant writes "A new Doom 3 Final Video Preview/Trailer is now out. It is about 42.5 MB big, 2.5 minutes long, and in Quicktime format. Download it from here (direct link and BitTorrent link), FilePlanet (an account required), or FileShack (an account required)."
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http://www.filerush.com/torrents/d3pcdownloadfinal .mov.torrent
Just in case the server melts. Which it almost certainly will.
Shouldn't be necessary, but here's a mirror of the torrent just in case.
Well, you can download Quicktime Alternative if you don't want to install quicktime. See also Real Alternitave
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For Windows users, just install the Kazaa Lite ++ Codec Pack. It's legal (unlike it's p2p software) and includes not only the latest DivX codecs, but quicktime/realplayer Dll's that operate without the quicktime/realplayer software. This means quicktime/realplayer playability and browser streaming without the spyware. They are known as quicktime/realplayer lite.
e ssential-20040704.tar.bz2
/usr/lib/win32
Get the 'mega codec pack' here:
http://g5.edskes.com/klmcodec103.exe
For linux users, of course head here and snag:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
Which is the mplayer release of an essential codec pack containing divx, quicktime, realplayer, etc. Those should be extracted (without the sub director in the tar) to
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The Florida mirror seems quite fast on this page: http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/doom3/d3pcdownloa dfinal.zip.html
Not from in game they are not.
Aside from the pictures of the box and so on, those are the exact same screenshots that have been going around the net for a week.
It might have a box, but I don't think he took those screenies.
I have a decent system, and lately it seems as if Quicktime movies are VERY resource hungry. I don't even try to play movies with high resolutions. Just try moving the Quicktime window around when you are playing a high-resolution movie. Talk about the ultimate bloat. I'd much rather just download a plain mpeg, even if it is twice the file size.
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Mirror of the torrent
m ov .torrent
http://www.toad.net/~cshafer/d3pcdownloadfinal.
After a few moments, my speed went to ~110 kB/s. Two minutes to go...
via http
via ftp
the server should be fast enough
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What are you talking about? The .torrent is readily available, and the tracker isn't dead:
download rate: 32.1 kB/s
upload rate: 19.3 kB/s
share rating: 0.669 (22.8 MB up / 34.2 MB down)
seed status: 21 seen now, plus 0.966 distributed copies
peer status: 5 seen now, 43.2% done at 341.4 kB/s
It's kinda strange how you are having problems playing this. On my iMac w/ 450Mhz G3 and 512 Megs o' RAM it plays fine. Im sure your PC is better than that.
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Confirmed, and it's the original Doom head, but I think that's what you meant.
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The graphics don't look as great as those screenshots we saw a year ago. The game play hasn't changed that much. So I can shoot through that shelf. Can I push it over to help stall the bad guys while I run backwards? Can I spill the contents of those exploding barrels so that the bad guys might slip and fall? Doesn't seem that way from the video. The characters' lips still aren't in sync with the words they're speaking.
I'm not spending several hundred bucks to upgrade my computer so I can play this game. I'll wait until something more immersive comes down the pipe.
Well after the last year or so of WorldWar2 & current world crisis team shooters (everything from Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Battlefield, America's Army, Joint Ops and back again) I'm quite looking forward to a scary bloodbath with demons. As far as upgrading to play, I'll wait a few months until semester is over & play the XBox version.
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http://www.neowin.net/ has a whole posting on screenshots, some are okay (although the shots are from people with cheap graphics cards it looks like)
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Just thought I'd clear that up for anyone not in-the-know.
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What I want to know is, when can I get a demo?
I don't want to buy the damned game until I know if my machine is good enough to run it acceptably or not.
The problem is in "ultra quality" mode the graphics don't actually get "better". They just use the full bitmap textures instead of the compressed ones. There's not actually any more depth to the code that generates the scene, or more accurately, nothing will be added to the scene that you can't see in the regular mode except detail. This is completely different than switching to a primitive "ray traced" mode for example where your PC is sucked dry of all its CPU for the purpose of doing something in real time. Why for example do the characters continue to look as mere automatons where there mouths don't match their speech? Why do the visuals still look cartoon'ish? Does "ultra quality" mode use any floating point at all for high resolution color? 24 bits per color RGB? I've seen better graphic environments in "Uru".
In a sense it really isn't id's fault. The problem is that the game development ran long and is overdue. This game "should" have come out over a year and a half ago. The 3D engine technology is now out-of-date, being based on cards 2 years or older. I found the same thing happened when I bought "Halo" for the PC. I "expected" the game to be "better", more detailed, and with higher res graphics. What I found was a game that was only a little better in graphic capability than "Tribes 2", which is now well over 3.5 years old. A 2004 game should have 2004 graphic capabilities, not 2001.
To people new to BitTorrent: Leave the BitTorrent program running after your download completes. That lets other people grab fragments of the file from your computer, using your outgoing bandwidth (which is likely mostly idle anyway). I downloaded the file in a couple of minutes, but my cable modem is still pumping out 30 kilobyte/sec to other BT peers.
:) )
(If someone here is actually using your outgoing bandwidth for other things, consider yourself mentioned, and spare the Slashdot reply.
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I d/led the QT trailer and it played just fine - fullscreen too. ** psst ** Don't tell Steve Jobs, I used xine.
Uhm, Carmack said it was in Doom3. All the weapons from Doom, in fact.
You had a 486 when Doom came out?
Damn, I wish I was that lucky. Most people I knew struggled (but managed) to run it on their 386 boxes with 4 meg of RAM.