Doom 3 has crazy mofo requirements

[w1ngzer0]

DOOM 3 System RequirementsWondering if that gaming rig you use to play solitaire on will be able to handle might of DOOM 3? Well, this is the place to find out!

Minimum Specifications

A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500. 384 megabytes of memory. Two gigabytes of hard drive space. An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.

Recommended Specifications

2Ghz CPU or AMD 2500+ 512 megabytes of memory. Two gigabytes of hard drive space. Radeon 9700 or an nVidia GeForce4 ti4600 graphics card or better. 5.1 surround sound audio

Worry Free Specifications

3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 64 3000+. 1 gigabyte of memory. Two gigabytes of hard drive space. An nVidia 6800 graphics card or an ATI X800XT 6.1 surround sound audio

Well looks like its deffently time to upgrade lol. Wow..... a 3ghz processor for worry free. I am afraid that HL2 is going to have the same requirements. Ah, well time for upgrade anyway

The problem with upgrading today is everything is 3x more expensive compaired to when 1ghz first came out.

[Jesda]

Nice thing about my Athlon 800, is that1) It was mostly free, and2) Shopping in the $10 clearance bin for games keeps me from overspending!

[Cyberkreig]

Looks like i'm worry free =P

[StrangeLove]

I'm between recommended and worrying free.. kinda cool because I got my current comp a year and a half ago... never upgraded it either =P

I played the doom 3 leaked alpha version about 6 months ago... its cool even with a mighty 7fps

[[Zero-S]]

Time to buy that 3.6 Ghz P4 Extreme Edition

[Scorch]

hl2 has much lower minimum reqs than that...damn, a geforce 3 just to PLAY the game

my radeon 7500 isnt gonna cut it... damn

[w1ngzer0]

but doom 3 looks nuts. Can't wait and can. :P.

My parents have a top of the line "sorta" machine. So ... mabie i can run it on their system. LMAO i can hear it now "why are you playing that satanic game!!"

[silkk]

it better be worth it with all the requirements

[DAEDALUS]

Yeah really. If this game is the reason you're upgrading your machine, it could be the most expensive game you've ever bought. I'd at least wait till the reviews are plentiful.

[Mr1der]

well, you can also say you've got a machine that can run it;)

I should be able too, not to well, but I should be able too...

[glitched]

yeah, my comp i built a 1.5 years ago is just under the recomeneded specs as well... xp2200, gig of ram, gforce4 ti 4200. i will see though in about 12 hours...

[w1ngzer0]

12 hrs? eh?

gamestop's clock says over 24 hrseveryone should sign up for the free year of the game server for doom 3. Make it a NICO doom 3 server! :ylsuper

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/d3c...s.asp

[rico05]

Looks like all I need for "worry free" is a 9800XT (I have a 9700 128MB clocked/cracked over 9800 128MB spec) and 6.1 surround (damn...I only have 5.1)

Looks like I WILL be getting D3 at work Friday:)

[rico05]

Time to buy that 3.6 Ghz P4 Extreme Edition

Hardly. I have a friend that has a 2.4gHz HT clocked to 3.2gHz on air cooling alone. I need to get off my a$$ and do that myslef. The trade off is killer loud fans and actually spending money (440) on a decent heat sink.

[glitched]

12 hrs? eh?

gamestop's clock says over 24 hrseveryone should sign up for the free year of the game server for doom 3. Make it a NICO doom 3 server! :ylsuper

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/d3c...s.asp

gamestops' clock is bs. some stores were allready selling it a couple days ago (see link)

http://ircspy.com/comments.asp?mode=view&id=1597

*see also: http://www.suprnova.org

[TachyonS14]

I'm almost done with the single player, I downloaded Doom3 a couple days ago and man that game is INSANE. It is a must have for shoot-em up gamers. The little details in the game will blow your mind.

[glitched]

installing now...:ylsuper

[rico05]

I have a torrent dl'ing from Suprnova. 175 hours and counting:(

[glitched]

xp2200, a gig of pc2700 ram, and a geforce4 ti4200 128mb. witht hte ram and g-card overclocked i could run it at 800*640 with medium settings and its very playable, but definatley not 30+ fps liquid smooth:crybaby

great game so far though!:D

[[Zero-S]]

Hardly. I have a friend that has a 2.4gHz HT clocked to 3.2gHz on air cooling alone. I need to get off my a$$ and do that myslef. The trade off is killer loud fans and actually spending money (440) on a decent heat sink.

How.

If I can air-cool my 2.8 up to 3.6 I'll do it. Its not like I can't just buy another processor should the one I'm planning to OC burns out.

[w1ngzer0]

Hardly. I have a friend that has a 2.4gHz HT clocked to 3.2gHz on air cooling alone. I need to get off my a$$ and do that myslef. The trade off is killer loud fans and actually spending money (440) on a decent heat sink.

such a big jump i could see that non watercooled system burning up.Hmmmmm watercooled system with water wetter :ylsuper

Mabie this would be the time to get into overclocking. Anyway to overclock my video card?

Links!!

[[Zero-S]]

what are you running right now? There are plenty of ways to O/C the radeon on stock cooling.