Whats under the hood of your box? Doom 3 HL2 ready or not?
 

Whats under the hood of your box? Are you Doom 3 HL2 ready or not?

The facts are below:

Half Life 2:

Apparently a 700mhz processor and a video card capable of running DX6 is enough, although a 2ghz with a GeForce4 is recommended. Rumors about NVidia or ATI exclusivity are unfounded.

Doom 3:

System Requirements - Recommended by PC Gamer:
2GHz CPU
512 MB Ram
Radeon 9800
5-Channel Audio

Supported Graphics Cards:
Ge-Force 4 MX
Ge-Force 3
Ge-Force 4 Titanium
Ge-Force FX (and higher)
ATI 8500, 9000 (and higher)

Looks like everyones belief that Doom 3 will be the more graphic beast could very well be true. Judging from what I saw in the "demo" I very much doubt that a G3 will do the job in a playable fashion, and even more so a G4MX, only time will tell.

Post what you have and what you think of these upcoming games.

My main rig:

AMD 64 3800+ 939
Asus A8V
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200LL
Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

My Backup Rig:

AMD64 3000+ 754
Albatron K8x800Pro II
1GB Crucial PC3200
PNY Geforce 4 Ti4600 128mb

I should be able to run the game on both, but with what success?

i think my main rig below should handle both games in Medium settings.. maybe even high depending on how optimized the games' engines are to different comps. Jason, defanatly your top rig should be able to run both games on high, your backup is actually a pretty good comp, but I think prob around meduim settings for both games.

I think I should be able to run both on high settings, especially with my nice overclock....

I will defiantly run them at the highest settings, with AA/AF all the way up! 5 fps is no match for my sapphire 9500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:firedevil:

HL2, I'm just fine. Doom 3, I'm screwed

Bleh :rolleyes:
I'm on a 1.0GHz and I'll still run it, and I'm betting without any hitches...

I've put this together in the last month, if this doesn't run it all on max, I'm buying a Game Cube & start playing 'cute' games. :)

I've put this together in the last month, if this doesn't run it all on max, I'm buying a Game Cube & start playing 'cute' games. :)

Amd 64 Bit 3000+
1 Gb DDR 400mhz RAM
x800 XT PE 256 MB (Havent Purchased yet)

nice comp gibant... what cpu did it used to be before you OC'd it?

I gotta learn to OC without blowing shit up

going intel is a good start.. you have to try to ruin them.. and i'm not going to test that theory either..

Can anyone tell me how I can expect HL2 and Doom 3 to run on my machines?

Main

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ASrock K858X (SIS Chipset)
512Mb 400Mhz Ram
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 pro Atlantis (128Mb)
160Gb SATA HD

Second (Laptop)

Pentium 4 2.53Ghz (Desktop Chip)
512Mb 266Mhz Ram
875 Chipset
ATI Radeon mobility 9000 64Mb
60Gb Ultra ATA 133 HD

Thanks In advance

good on the first, not very good on the 2nd (because of the video card)

I'm playing Doom3 on a AMD 2800, ATI 9800pro, 1GB RAM and it runs fine. 1024x768 and detail set to high.


http://www.martianbuddy.com/

wtf is that link?!

Play Doom 3 and find out. ;)

http://www.ua-corp.com/

damn.. you.. must wait until tomorrow :cry:

that site doesn't make sense.. it does all its cool stuff.. then sits there.."transport arrived"

It should at least run on the laptop, but I wouldnt expect to see framerates that are above 30.

I hope doom 3 is as good as it is cracked up to be

Oh it is bud.. Amazing singleplayer.. mediocre multi. you'd love it.

i'd like to play it but noone will let me bororow it (what a suprise) .. so.. i guess i'm going to have to wait..

I would have, but you cant burn it cause it detects your virtual drive just like far cray and ut2k4.. i would show you a screenshot but I dont want to go through that trouble of it locking me out of the game.. The only way back in is deleting the regestry keys.

*knows that the doom3 copy protection can be beaten and wants a shot at it* ;)

If Mojo can't pirate it, no one can pirate it.. :biggrin:

i'm a class above you pal 8)

:lol:

:lol:

:lol:

:rofl:

:goof:

:firedevil:

my latest system

k8t neo mobo 3000+ 64 bit AMD cpu
1024 ddr 400
Geforce 6800 256 MB ultra

my latest system (when the parts come today or tomorrow)

same as in sig except MSI 9800 PRO, 2x 80gig WDse's in raid 0 and 4x256
of my geil pc4000 ultra plat ram... oh and i'm adding a red led fan too.. :)

oh yeah
1x60 gig hd
1x189 gb hd



I have no idea which raid. I suppose i should memorize them. Especially before my A+ test

*has A+ ;) *

it was harder than i thought it would be...

raid 0 is fast
raid 1 is mirror

raid 0+1 is both..

all you need to know for A+ I think.. (pretty much all i know too..)

how do I set up raid 0

i'm still trying to get it done.. I got the array set up in the mobo's raid utility thing (when it's like press tab to enter raid utility) or whatever.. now I just need the win xp install to recognize it.. i've got some drivers I think and i'm gonna try it when I get home..