It's John Carmack I was asking this from as he designed the game. I cannot think of a better or more qualified individual to answer that for me as he created Doom 3 with his colleagues.
So, Are you he?
Apparently not. Others noted that too, because I am sure a programmer of his calibre would get his own name right.
Seriously though:
Primarily, I am trying to make a determination if my system will be up-to-snuff to at least play the game.
I.E.-> Will it be that CPU dependent?
The rest of my system is pretty state-of-the-art as of June 2002. I am basically wondering if the GeForce Ti4600 128mb RAM AGP board I have with its GPU will take up some of the slack. If not, I am just inquiring if Doom III will be "tuneable" and have ways to make it run on slower machines is all.
Example: I used to run Quake II on a Dual Pentium I 233mmx system, and it was dog-slow on it at full graphics colors + details even at 640x480. Yet, if I turned it down to lowest colors/details/resolutions, it ran quite well.
Secondly, You say this here -> "(not that a mere 11% o/c is earth-shattering!). I doubt they're testing--or even DEVELOPING--that new game with the old-gen technology yer sportin' with your current rig!"
Believe me, getting that extra 127mhz out of this Pentium III 1ghz CPU and keeping it stable is not bad.
Apparently, you must be an AMD fan & user, & nothing wrong with that at all, they do make great stuff for the right price vs. Intel offerings.
The problem is, that you're showing a lack of familiarity with this type of CPU and really discrediting yourself (along with saying it is George Carmack, bad bad bad).
Pentium III's just are not great overclockers, and the most you can do afaik is Front Side Bus overclock. That's it.
Any higher for me here at least, and my system's operation becomes unstable.
Anyhow, before you post for John Carmack next time, do get his name right at least.
First of all, thanks for making what I consider the most revolutionary games out there since 1992 or so... love IDSoftware games, they are great and I always look forward to the new ones!
That said... I read your commentary here regarding the hardware used in the demo at E3 and that ran fairly smoothly. I need to know if a system of this makeup will be able to handle Doom III at roughly 50fps, and if not, will there be options in the game regarding graphics resolutions, color & detail levels, etc. that will make it do so?
Here is the specs of my current machine:
Dual Intel Pentium III 1ghz o/c @1127mhz 512mb PC-133 SDRAM by Micron GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb RAM AGP by VisionTek WD 120gb JB 8mb buffer ATA-100 7200rpm disk #1 WD 40gb x 3 disks 2mb buffer each ATA-100 7200rpm logical disk #2 RAID 0 stripe array
Thanks for the information sir. I would like to avoid having to buy a new motherboard, CPU, & RAM if possible (although, by the release date of the game in 2003, I probably may)... just curious!
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Well, first thing first:
It's John Carmack I was asking this from as he designed the game. I cannot think of a better or more qualified individual to answer that for me as he created Doom 3 with his colleagues.
So, Are you he?
Apparently not. Others noted that too, because I am sure a programmer of his calibre would get his own name right.
Seriously though:
Primarily, I am trying to make a determination if my system will be up-to-snuff to at least play the game.
I.E.-> Will it be that CPU dependent?
The rest of my system is pretty state-of-the-art as of June 2002. I am basically wondering if the GeForce Ti4600 128mb RAM AGP board I have with its GPU will take up some of the slack. If not, I am just inquiring if Doom III will be "tuneable" and have ways to make it run on slower machines is all.
Example: I used to run Quake II on a Dual Pentium I 233mmx system, and it was dog-slow on it at full graphics colors + details even at 640x480. Yet, if I turned it down to lowest colors/details/resolutions, it ran quite well.
Secondly, You say this here -> "(not that a mere 11% o/c is earth-shattering!). I doubt they're testing--or even DEVELOPING--that new game with the old-gen technology yer sportin' with your current rig!"
Believe me, getting that extra 127mhz out of this Pentium III 1ghz CPU and keeping it stable is not bad.
Apparently, you must be an AMD fan & user, & nothing wrong with that at all, they do make great stuff for the right price vs. Intel offerings.
The problem is, that you're showing a lack of familiarity with this type of CPU and really discrediting yourself (along with saying it is George Carmack, bad bad bad).
Pentium III's just are not great overclockers, and the most you can do afaik is Front Side Bus overclock. That's it.
Any higher for me here at least, and my system's operation becomes unstable.
Anyhow, before you post for John Carmack next time, do get his name right at least.
Have a good day.
Mr. Carmack,
First of all, thanks for making what I consider the most revolutionary games out there since 1992 or so... love IDSoftware games, they are great and I always look forward to the new ones!
That said... I read your commentary here regarding the hardware used in the demo at E3 and that ran fairly smoothly. I need to know if a system of this makeup will be able to handle Doom III at roughly 50fps, and if not, will there be options in the game regarding graphics resolutions, color & detail levels, etc. that will make it do so?
Here is the specs of my current machine:
Dual Intel Pentium III 1ghz o/c @1127mhz
512mb PC-133 SDRAM by Micron
GeForce 4 Ti4600 128mb RAM AGP by VisionTek
WD 120gb JB 8mb buffer ATA-100 7200rpm disk #1
WD 40gb x 3 disks 2mb buffer each ATA-100 7200rpm logical disk #2 RAID 0 stripe array
Thanks for the information sir. I would like to avoid having to buy a new motherboard, CPU, & RAM if possible (although, by the release date of the game in 2003, I probably may)... just curious!
Alexander Peter Kowalski
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