I run Doom 3 on my system with few issues.
My specs...
SIS K7 Mobo...Custom Built PC
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6GHz
512MB DDR-RAM
8x AGP nVidia GeForce FX 5600 w/256MB DDR-RAM
80GB UDMA IDE Hard Drive
DirectX 9.0c
nVidia Forceware 78.01 Drivers
Creative SoundBlaster LIVE! 5.1
Doom 3 settings:
Resolution: 640x480
Shadows: On
High-Res Special Effects: Off
Bump-Mapping: On
VSync: Off
I'll have to try Quake 4. Doom 3 restored some of my confidence in Id Software. Quake 3: Arena was a very poorly designed game as compared to Unreal Tournament which was superior in gameplay options and sigle-player bot A.I. Doom 3 had an engaging storyline. It wasn't a blind run, find a key, and shoot everything that moved sort of game. It did make you think a little in some places. Not quite as much as with games like Half-Life 2, though. Even though I think Q3A was an inferior game the graphcis engine was decent and was used to make some very good game titles like Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, American McGee's Alice, Call of Duty and the Medal of Honor series.
The Nintendo DS is falling behind in sales against the superior Sony PSP. There are several reasons why the DS is lagging behind...
1. Bulky design: Many people have complained about the size and bulk of the DS.
2. Dependency on Cartridges: The age of the game cartridge has come and gone. The overwhelming success of the Sony Playstation and its "intellegent" use of CD-ROM based media effectively killed the cartridges as a viable media format for software. The reasons for this are the cost of production which are only a few cents for optical media (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) as compared to $30-$40 (each unit) for the cost of chips and cartridge manufacturing. The second limiting factor for cartridges is a very limited storage capacity.
3. Lack of Wi-Fi Internet Connectivity: The DS only allows for multiplayer games via its wi-fi connection with oher DS units but users cannot access public wi-fi drops like with the PSP and different PDA models. Because of this it would be impossible to sync data on the DS and a PC or another PDA because of this design.
4, No Support for Storage Media: The DS does not natively support any form of flash media cards for storing data.
5. Dominant Childen Marketing Angle: Nintendo has been the compnay that has marketed towards children the most out of all the other game console producers. This has hurt them in the past. Does anyone remember the "Mortal Kombat" fiasco which cost Nintendo millions in lost revenue and sparked the era where Sega became the top grossing game console maker in the early 90's? Nintendo has been slow to adapt to a changing market landscape.
It is good that Nintendo still produces games that are safe for young children to play but it effects nearly every aspect of the company. They have been slow to change, it took years for Nintendo to accept optical media as storage for games in systems like the Gamecube, but instead of using a known open standard such as DVD they chose to go with proprietary format. This doesn't really have much to do with the DS, but its a symptom of what is wrong wirh Nintendo. The company is too slow to change and adapt with the current market and current technology.
New understanding into the fields of Quantum Mechanics could easily explain what is going on. Quantum Physics or Quantum Mechanics as its sometimes called, does not obey any of the normal Laws of Physics nor any of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. New Cosmology fields are driving this understand. The discovery and confirmation of the existance of Black Holes, Warped Space, Dark Matter, and the recent discover that light can be slowed down flies in the face of established science. What does this have to do with this article. It has a lot to do with it. It adds scientific credibility to it in those areas of science once thought of as flights of fancy and are now gaining universal acceptance. Cosmic String Theory is one such field.
So before writing something off as bullhocky just remember that something that was considered fantasy ten years ago is accepted scientific fact today. And those who are opposed to the Theory of Global Warming got a major wake up call this year and it name was Katrina.
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I run Doom 3 on my system with few issues. My specs... SIS K7 Mobo...Custom Built PC AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6GHz 512MB DDR-RAM 8x AGP nVidia GeForce FX 5600 w/256MB DDR-RAM 80GB UDMA IDE Hard Drive DirectX 9.0c nVidia Forceware 78.01 Drivers Creative SoundBlaster LIVE! 5.1 Doom 3 settings: Resolution: 640x480 Shadows: On High-Res Special Effects: Off Bump-Mapping: On VSync: Off I'll have to try Quake 4. Doom 3 restored some of my confidence in Id Software. Quake 3: Arena was a very poorly designed game as compared to Unreal Tournament which was superior in gameplay options and sigle-player bot A.I. Doom 3 had an engaging storyline. It wasn't a blind run, find a key, and shoot everything that moved sort of game. It did make you think a little in some places. Not quite as much as with games like Half-Life 2, though. Even though I think Q3A was an inferior game the graphcis engine was decent and was used to make some very good game titles like Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, American McGee's Alice, Call of Duty and the Medal of Honor series.
The Nintendo DS is falling behind in sales against the superior Sony PSP. There are several reasons why the DS is lagging behind... 1. Bulky design: Many people have complained about the size and bulk of the DS. 2. Dependency on Cartridges: The age of the game cartridge has come and gone. The overwhelming success of the Sony Playstation and its "intellegent" use of CD-ROM based media effectively killed the cartridges as a viable media format for software. The reasons for this are the cost of production which are only a few cents for optical media (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) as compared to $30-$40 (each unit) for the cost of chips and cartridge manufacturing. The second limiting factor for cartridges is a very limited storage capacity. 3. Lack of Wi-Fi Internet Connectivity: The DS only allows for multiplayer games via its wi-fi connection with oher DS units but users cannot access public wi-fi drops like with the PSP and different PDA models. Because of this it would be impossible to sync data on the DS and a PC or another PDA because of this design. 4, No Support for Storage Media: The DS does not natively support any form of flash media cards for storing data. 5. Dominant Childen Marketing Angle: Nintendo has been the compnay that has marketed towards children the most out of all the other game console producers. This has hurt them in the past. Does anyone remember the "Mortal Kombat" fiasco which cost Nintendo millions in lost revenue and sparked the era where Sega became the top grossing game console maker in the early 90's? Nintendo has been slow to adapt to a changing market landscape. It is good that Nintendo still produces games that are safe for young children to play but it effects nearly every aspect of the company. They have been slow to change, it took years for Nintendo to accept optical media as storage for games in systems like the Gamecube, but instead of using a known open standard such as DVD they chose to go with proprietary format. This doesn't really have much to do with the DS, but its a symptom of what is wrong wirh Nintendo. The company is too slow to change and adapt with the current market and current technology.
New understanding into the fields of Quantum Mechanics could easily explain what is going on. Quantum Physics or Quantum Mechanics as its sometimes called, does not obey any of the normal Laws of Physics nor any of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. New Cosmology fields are driving this understand. The discovery and confirmation of the existance of Black Holes, Warped Space, Dark Matter, and the recent discover that light can be slowed down flies in the face of established science. What does this have to do with this article. It has a lot to do with it. It adds scientific credibility to it in those areas of science once thought of as flights of fancy and are now gaining universal acceptance. Cosmic String Theory is one such field. So before writing something off as bullhocky just remember that something that was considered fantasy ten years ago is accepted scientific fact today. And those who are opposed to the Theory of Global Warming got a major wake up call this year and it name was Katrina.