Doom 3

The Gheyness · Post by **The Gheyness** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:12 am

Doom 3 comes out today, bitches! Anybody getting it?

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:02 am

Hmmmm... I think I just might have to make a trip to the computer store today....

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:14 am

I'd like to, but it'd most likely eat my compy alive with it's nasty big pointy teeth.

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:44 pm

something tells me that my ATI AIW 7500 would choke and die just trying to load the opening screen, so not buying it anytime soon. That card is the best I have between all five systems and other assorted spare cards in the closet.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:38 pm

I can run it, but I'm scrounging up some money to play EVE online instead

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MadGhigno · Post by **MadGhigno** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:46 pm

the graphic and the image details are incredible !!!
I did not think was possible to have an image quality like that

A great graphic engine, ID softwre is great imho

bye
MadGhigno

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:59 pm

I have an awesome card (ATI Pro Rage 8MB) so I should be ok, maybe I should get it.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:41 pm

By the time I was able to get out a look for it, all the places were sold out or hadn't received it yet.

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:54 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I have an awesome card (ATI Pro Rage 8MB) so I should be ok, maybe I should get it.

have to assume that is dry Canadian humour

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:10 pm

Cisco_Kid wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: I have an awesome card (ATI Pro Rage 8MB) so I should be ok, maybe I should get it.

have to assume that is dry Canadian humour

Dry, with a side of moist moose nuggets.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:16 pm

w00t! My uncle mailed a copy to me! Fun!

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:16 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I have an awesome card (ATI Pro Rage 8MB) so I should be ok, maybe I should get it.

Red starts loading the game, one hour later the initial menu is available.

several hours later as he is playing the first level that finnnaly loaded, we hear 'Yes, 5 frames per second!"

having playing Wolfenstein 3D on a 286 10 MGHz I can relate to that bit of fantasy above. The game could just move in 'chunks' and the bad guys always seem to stand between the chunks where they were impossible to kill.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:24 pm

Cisco_Kid wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote: I have an awesome card (ATI Pro Rage 8MB) so I should be ok, maybe I should get it.

Red starts loading the game, one hour later the initial menu is available.

several hours later as he is playing the first level that finnnaly loaded, we hear 'Yes, 5 frames per second!"

having playing Wolfenstein 3D on a 286 10 MGHz I can relate to that bit of fantasy above. The game could just move in 'chunks' and the bad guys always seem to stand between the chunks where they were impossible to kill.

Haha, an experience I shared back in the day when my dad wasn't up for investing in better hardware.

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fragged one · Post by **fragged one** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:30 pm

does anyone have a copy of it?

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:35 pm

No, but I’ve heard that the game is nice to look at.

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fragged one · Post by **fragged one** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:37 pm

Tak wrote: No, but I’ve heard that the game is nice to look at.

i know, i really want it! i've been waiting, what, close to ten years for it?!

i can't afford to buy it right now, though.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:40 pm

fragged one wrote:
Tak wrote: No, but I’ve heard that the game is nice to look at.

i know, i really want it! i've been waiting, what, close to ten years for it?!

i can't afford to buy it right now, though.

Pssst....

http://search.ftphost.net/indexer/search.aspx

I found a working link several pages in

Course, seeing as it's 3 CD's, I didn't feel like getting all of the pieces and parts,

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:44 pm

Man it only took 25 seconds to complete a frame after some minor tweaking! I'm getting somewhere. Now where was I? Oh yeah, loading a weapon. This should take about an hour.

Yeah I was joking, I actually have a 64MB video card but I still doubt it would run most new games.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:48 pm

Doom 3 will actually run AND look good on a geforce 3 (more powerful than a GeForce 4 MX). It won't be mind-blowingly good looking, but it'll still look better than anything else that computer can run

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:53 pm

Good find, Sintekk! I didn’t realise we had a duplicate.

POSTS MERGED FROM DUPLICATE THREAD BY TAK AT ~ 2004-08-05T16:53-5:00.

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The Gheyness · Post by **The Gheyness** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:13 pm

All sold out everywhere...my cousin bought it, though, and he says it's great to look at. I can't seem to figure out if most people are liking it or not, though. Most people at HardOCP seem to think FarCry is better.

I'm not one to argue, either.

Speaking of graphics cards, my cousin tried to play it on his laptop...and got less than 1 frame per second. @.@ haha...so yeah, Red, go for it! xD

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:54 pm

I should try it on an ISA 1Meg video card. 16 color gaming rocks!!!

LOL I would not even have enough power to load the initialisation dialog for the setup program.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:00 pm

I wonder if Doom 3 will work on my PC Jr

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The Gheyness · Post by **The Gheyness** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:01 am

XD

Dammit...I need a hardware upgrade BAD.

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:08 am

I upgraded my dad's video card this weekend to a Radeon 9800 Pro (edit: sale price at Fry's was $199.99) after his old one died and he purchased Doom3 at the same time.
Incredible graphics and perfect dark environments. My huge complaint about it, but this hopefully was an isolated thing just related to that system system - I was forced to to use the excessively awkward A/S/W/D thing or numeric keypad rather than the much more natural arrow keys. Really pissed me off as I never use the left side of the keyboard for movement because it crowds both hands very close to each other. Reminds me of those godd--n right handed desks that I had to fight in school at times that force you to sit at odd angles just to write anything.

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