Doom 3 Requirements.

[M16Grenadier]

What are the Doom 3 system requirements?

 

[CraigRT]

a lot

 

[M16Grenadier]

More specific, please.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Low-End:
1.5GhzP4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

Mid-Range:
2.4GhzP4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT

High-End:
3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent
2GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE.

 

[Spamdini]

Whats the AMD equivalent for high-end?

 

[NYHoustonman]

Probably an Athlon 64 3400+ or something... Generally the best (or at least close to the best) available ...

 

[M16Grenadier]

Some steep requirements.

Looks like I need to do some upgradin'

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Low-End:
1.5GhzP4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

Mid-Range:
2.4GhzP4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT

High-End:
3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent
2GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE.

2 gigs of ram :Q

 

[Markfw]

I don't think I have a problem.....

 

[windows311]

wow i really need to upgrade...again...geeze. twice in 1 millenium

 

[Alkaline5]

Remember the D3 benches that Anand did last year? The whole FX series was blowing the equivalent Radeon 9x00 cards away. If these requirements are "official", that doesn't seem to be a factor any more.

In either case, I'm going to need more RAM!

 

[M16Grenadier]

Originally posted by: windows311
wow i really need to upgrade...again...geeze. twice in 1 millenium

Are you serious? You're still using a 486SX?

 

[windows311]

not at all...that was my pc in like 1990

 

[windows311]

my current rig is: ->
p4 2.8 @ 3.2 FSB = 990
ic7gmax3
1gb geil pc4000
9000xt
antec dragon case
antec tru 550
zalman 7000cu
21" hitachi flat
27" sony tv
klipsch promedia 5.1 ultra
.5 TB HDs WD SATA
76 GB SCSi Raid 1 on an adptec controller 29something
some other stuff

 

[SickBeast]

Apparently there is not a computer commercially available to run DoomIII in all its glory. That should tell you something right there.

I would say that a 6800U will run the game pretty well at 1024x768. We'll see when the game is released though. I'm just basing this off the leaked PC Gamer (?) article.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Low-End:
1.5GhzP4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

Mid-Range:
2.4GhzP4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT

High-End:
3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent
2GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE.

Or an X-box . . . coming this Fall

And where'd you get the system requirements? . . . id hasn't released them yet

 

[JackHawksmoor]

The X-Box version is (obviously) massivly scaled back. It looks like an X-Box game. The real Doom 3 looks like...uh, Doom 3. It's amazing. I'm actually excited by it as a game, but obviously also by the engine and all the games it's going to power.

 

[windows311]

really can't wait to see this game, but apparently it'll be quite some time till i can see it in all its glory... Looks like we gotta see if alienware's SSL thing works.

 

[FFactory0x]

Originally posted by: JackHawksmoor
The X-Box version is (obviously) massivly scaled back. It looks like an X-Box game. The real Doom 3 looks like...uh, Doom 3. It's amazing. I'm actually excited by it as a game, but obviously also by the engine and all the games it's going to power.

Ever see the new chronicles of riddick for XBOX. The gfx are amazing

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: FFactory0x

Originally posted by: JackHawksmoor
The X-Box version is (obviously) massivly scaled back. It looks like an X-Box game. The real Doom 3 looks like...uh, Doom 3. It's amazing. I'm actually excited by it as a game, but obviously also by the engine and all the games it's going to power.

Ever see the new chronicles of riddick for XBOX. The gfx are amazing

I do NOT believe we know the eexact spects for doom iii - yet.

THIS review with Carmack from 6 months ago differs with the "Specs" posted:

Q&A: id Software's Todd Hollenshead and Tim Willits

GP: A lot of our readers are interested in the Xbox version of Doom 3 because they don't think their PCs will be able to run it. Is an Xbox version still on the horizon?

TH: The Xbox version of Doom 3 is actually in development now. We have the technology up and running on the machine. We don't have any plans for shipping concurrently with the PC version, so it will come afterwards. The challenges there are the 64 megs of RAM versus what we're looking at on the PC, 256 megs. We're going to have to make some concessions to that memory bandwidth, just in terms of the number of textures that we use, the texture resolution, and some other things. On the PC, we are looking at a 1-gigahertz processor versus a 733 PIII from the Xbox. But the Xbox is a full-impact platform.

GP: So the base is a 1 Gigahertz processor for playability on PC?

TH: Yeah. Really, the gating factor for most PCs will be the graphics card. You have to have geometry acceleration on the board. Basically, we're looking at it as you don't have to start turning stuff off to make it run at an acceptable framerate. The framerate taps out at 60 frames per second?it won't ever run faster than that. We believe that everybody will be able to enjoy the experience at 30 frames per second. So there are going to be some differences depending on what system you have, but basically, a GeForce 2 class of card should be a full-impact experience at a reasonable frame rate.

Now where the hell do these "new" specs come from?

Carmack's Specs from 10/03

1GHz CPU
256MB RAM
GF1 or Radeon 7xxx series card

Now lets see a link.

 

[carni]

Like stated previously, they were a "guesstimate" put out in a gaming mag. It may have been PC Gamer.

 

[nortexoid]

why don't people simply wait until the game is released, then buy it (or pirate it, or whatever), and see how well it runs. if it doesn't run well (or at all), upgrade.

indeed.

 

[RockGuitarDude]

Originally posted by: JackHawksmoor
The X-Box version is (obviously) massivly scaled back. It looks like an X-Box game. The real Doom 3 looks like...uh, Doom 3. It's amazing. I'm actually excited by it as a game, but obviously also by the engine and all the games it's going to power.

It won't be as scaled back as you think. Viewing things on TV is a lot different than on a monitor. Higher resolutions aren't needed for it to look good, etc.

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Low-End:
1.5GhzP4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500

Mid-Range:
2.4GhzP4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT

High-End:
3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent
2GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE.

Lol unlikely. I highly doubt doom 3 will use over a gig of ram at full settings. Not sure where you pulled those numbers from...your ass?

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: carni
Like stated previously, they were a "guesstimate" put out in a gaming mag. It may have been PC Gamer.

Stated previously . . . where?


NYHoustonman posted the "System Requirements for Doom III" as though they were "fact".

:roll:

So - until ID says OTHERwise - the current MINimum reqiuirements are:

1GHz CPU
256MB RAM
GF1 or Radeon 7xxx series card
('yes', 'no' - ???)

same as it's ever been

even 2 GF 6800Ultras in SLI evidently won't run more than 60FPS - it's 'capped'.


EDIT: i remember, it's from MaximumBS (PC) awhile back - BEFORE the x800 or 6800s. TOTALLY MEANINGLESS GUESSTIMMATES.