DOOM 3 GOLD! Official announcement!

[Flashfx2]

All the wonderful news right there!

http://www.shacknews.com/finger/?fid=toddh@idsoftware.com

[PowerK]

Yep! Doom 3 is GOLD! :D *official*
http://www.webdog.org/plans/6/

[Drec]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay preorders i guess? or do they count sales by how much the retailers buy?

[Radical]

Sweeet. Looks like I'm going to have to preorder it this weekend.

[Alucard]

Two threads about the same topic created at the exact same time....whos the reposter? :P

[OC-Master]

The minimum system requirements that were posted by PC Gamer are crazy.

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I bet the recommended system requirements would be something like a 4GHz Pentium4 or an Athlon64 FX-57 with 1GB of ram with an X800 XT or GF6 6800U


OC-Master

[Flashfx2]

Two threads about the same topic created at the exact same time....whos the reposter? :P
I don't see two threads on the same topic...

One is on the Doom 3 review, the other is this on it going gold. Unless the other one got deleted already.

[Alucard]

link (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=312648)

[CircuitBreaker8]

Good thing im way past those specs

[Boomstick]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay preorders i guess? or do they count sales by how much the retailers buy?

That confused me for a long time too.
Going Gold refers to stopping the programming and sending the game to be put on (a gold) disc.

[Vio1]

Anyone in Canada know of a good place to buy new games? Something inexpensive?

[UndyingClocker]

I feel lost can i get some comfort since im the only one on these boards with a dam 9200se. :confused:

[electromagnetic]

I will not be pre-ordering this game. I pre-ordered for the first and last time with UT2004, didn't get it until a week after it was released. No sir, I'll be pushing and shoving little old ladies and small children at the local Best Buy to get this game ON the release date.

It also says that the game will be at some stores on the 3rd. Anyone know if it's coming out on 1 DVD or 12 CD's or what?

[dreIU]

I will not be pre-ordering this game. I pre-ordered for the first and last time with UT2004, didn't get it until a week after it was released. No sir, I'll be pushing and shoving little old ladies and small children at the local Best Buy to get this game ON the release date.

It also says that the game will be at some stores on the 3rd. Anyone know if it's coming out on 1 DVD or 12 CD's or what?

I am not buying this game unless it comes on DVD... not trying to mess around with a handful of CD's, thats just ridiculous. :rolleyes:

[electromagnetic]

The minimum system requirements that were posted by PC Gamer are crazy.

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I bet the recommended system requirements would be something like a 4GHz Pentium4 or an Athlon64 FX-57 with 1GB of ram with an X800 XT or GF6 6800U


OC-Master

Thos are crazy, but the other kind of crazy, too hight. I thought this game was supposed to run fine on a GF3, like my rig below...

[Panzerknacker]

well, it says minimum gf4mx/radeon8500 so that means gf3 as well. And I will be running it on a Ti500!

[YellowDart]

Wooooooooooooow.... hell is now half-way frozen over... The other half will freeze when HL2 miraculously goes gold. :p

[deathman20]

Thought they said to run ultra textures its recommened to have 512mb's of video memory.

But hey the harddrive space is less then EQ2 which is like 10-12gigs if not mistaken right now (2 DVD's or 10CD's last I heard)

[Oni]

I'll be updating the Official Doom III / HL2 Release Date Thread w/ this info :)

Nice find!!

[arunabh]

any idea when the demo will be available for download ?

[SniperXX]

The minimum system requirements that were posted by PC Gamer are crazy.

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I bet the recommended system requirements would be something like a 4GHz Pentium4 or an Athlon64 FX-57 with 1GB of ram with an X800 XT or GF6 6800U


OC-Master

Ugh I meet those minimums. I know my new bday list, Hehehehe!
:clap:

[YellowDart]

Sounds way totally ginormously kick-ass-tacular!!!!!

I'll definitely have to get this one. From whhat the review says, it puts FarCry to shame in the graphics dept too.

We'll definitely need a "Official Post Your Doom]|[ FPS/Settings Here" thread. :D

[Flashfx2]

any idea when the demo will be available for download ?
I'd like to second this question. What has iD done in the past with demos? I hope they release a demo before the game hits the shelves. Would be nice to play a level or two to hold me over until the 3rd.

[daniel_dynasty]

wow 5 gigs? ut was like what 4?

[Drec]

I'd like to second this question. What has iD done in the past with demos? I hope they release a demo before the game hits the shelves. Would be nice to play a level or two to hold me over until the 3rd.

iD is usually good with demos...all the quakes and doom 1 & 2 have demos.

andi thought gold was selling an XXXX amount of copies
:o

[Drec]

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+


considering an AXP at 2ghz would totally lay a p4 at 2ghz to shame..i would think the req for amds would be like 1.5ghz or somthing around there..or a p4 @ 2.5ghz and an athlon at 2. :-/

[Imperial]

The minimum system requirements that were posted by PC Gamer are crazy.

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I bet the recommended system requirements would be something like a 4GHz Pentium4 or an Athlon64 FX-57 with 1GB of ram with an X800 XT or GF6 6800U


OC-Master

not really, the min req. are all pretty weak hardware

[Aslan]

The minimum system requirements that were posted by PC Gamer are crazy.

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I bet the recommended system requirements would be something like a 4GHz Pentium4 or an Athlon64 FX-57 with 1GB of ram with an X800 XT or GF6 6800U


OC-Master

Ouch, looks like I'll need to upgrade both CPU (or push my OC higher) and memory just to play it at a reasonable level. Those are quite high requirements, considering that the minimum CPU standard was considered quite high end barely a year ago and that its still easy to make do with 512MB of memory. The Video Card and Hard Drive Requirements are what I expected though, maybe even a little lower.

[Mr.Guvernment]

BUAHAHHA

i feels orry for ANYONE playing this game on anything less thena 9800PRO or a 6800

lol

an 8500 . MUAHAHAHAHHAHA yeah right!!! maybe @ like 2-3 FPS!!!!

[Drec]

BUAHAHHA

i feels orry for ANYONE playing this game on anything less thena 9800PRO or a 6800

lol

an 8500 . MUAHAHAHAHHAHA yeah right!!! maybe @ like 2-3 FPS!!!!

na man in far cry i average 70 FPS with low settings, thats on a damn fx 5200

[seamadan000]

there will be NO DVD version of the game for the forseeable future:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/14/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm?cnn=yes

they aren't going to spend the money on the remastering of the game and other costs according to the president of id games.

[Drec]

lol the xbox version is gonna blow, i cant wait to see the diffrence in the graphics.

[Flashfx2]

there will be NO DVD version of the game for the forseeable future:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/14/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm?cnn=yes

they aren't going to spend the money on the remastering of the game and other costs according to the president of id games.
That seems to be the only crappy news today on Doom 3. I would pay 5 bucks more for a DVD copy of Doom 3, it's just so much nicer only having one disk.

[seamadan000]

I agree, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to spend the extra money on such a version.

I also think that the x-box version will have fine gfx (not computer quality, but good nonetheless) and besides, gameplay and story are far more important than gfx, but it seems that not many agree with me on that anymore.

[KfistoRok]

Wooooooooooooow.... hell is now half-way frozen over... The other half will freeze when HL2 miraculously goes gold. :p

Couldn't say it better myself buddy. :)

lol the xbox version is gonna blow, i cant wait to see the diffrence in the graphics.

No it won't. It doesn't have to run at high resolutions like pc games. It will look and play just fine I have confidence.

12 Install CD's!?!?! :eek: That is insane! Why not DVD!?!? :eh?:

[Ri0]

12 Install CD's!?!?! :eek: That is insane! Why not DVD!?!? :eh?:


:eh?: Where did you come up with that?

"The game will ship on either three or four CDs."

From link above.

[bojangles]

lol the xbox version is gonna blow, i cant wait to see the diffrence in the graphics.
It will be perfect for all the people who don't have high end computers. I will probably buy both versions so I can play with my friends. Since when do graffics make the game.

[Lord_Zoltan]

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I got all of these. LOL! MY FRIENDS ARE SO ****ED!
They are gonna be ****ed they cant play and i can just barly :D

OH GOD THO ITS COMING OUT SO SOON *ORGASM*

Zoltan

[arunabh]

i think ID's plan was to make this game scary...if we play at low settings on the xbox wont it disable all the great effects the game was made for....making it less scary....i dont have a xbox so asking....?

[Pake]

BUAHAHHA

i feels orry for ANYONE playing this game on anything less thena 9800PRO or a 6800

lol

an 8500 . MUAHAHAHAHHAHA yeah right!!! maybe @ like 2-3 FPS!!!!
You don't need to run a game at high settings just to have fun. Some of us just like to play the game, not stare at the textures.
:p

[Inositle]

Any place have scans of the PC Gamer review yet?

[Flashfx2]

Probably, but that would be posting copyrighted material = illegal.

[Drec]

OH GOD THO ITS COMING OUT SO SOON *ORGASM*

Zoltan
omfg lmfao, this might be the first time ive said lmfao and was actually doing it...rofl

[Panzerknacker]

Since when do graffics make the game.

Since the game is made by IDsoftware :p.

And yes, the xbox graphics will blow like hell compared to the PC graphics.


BTW I ever tried a alpha version of the game 2 years ago, that was on a tbird 1ghz with 256mb ram and GF3 ti 500. I believe it were high settings but low res, it ran like 1-10 fps and it was freezing every corner cuz it needed to transfer files from the HD to the RAM cuz 256megs is not really enough :p.

Anyway, I'm sure the final version will be playable on my current rig cuz it allows low detail settings and stuff and is better coded.

[NO LIFE]

I read the PC gamer review and had to dodge spoilers like a monkey handler dodges crap. Pardon the french. Other than that it was a great review and now I am ancy waiting for the game. Borne Supremacy and I-Robot better be a damn good movies to distract me or I will go insane. :D

[TommyHolly]

There will only be 3 or 4 CDs to install. They said that making a master disk for DVD would be too expensive just to save 2 or 3 disks.

I pre-bought ny copy from EB Games back in...um October...I can't remember it's been so long.

[Flashfx2]

More DOOM 3 goodness

http://www.webdog.org/plans/6/

[nealric]

Far cry is not Doom

I think it will be relagated to 640x480 or if you are luky 800x600 on a fx5200 level vid card.

I think (i hope) my 9700pro will run it fine at 800x600 and maybe if im lucky 1024x768

[Tatuya]

:eh?: Where did you come up with that?

"The game will ship on either three or four CDs."

From link above.
But Everquest 2 is rumored to be shipping on 10 CDs! *Gasp :eek:*

People really need to go out, spend that extra 20 dollars and buy a damned DVD-ROM drive. The gaming industry is going DVDs next so we might as well do it quickly since the amount of CDs shipped for a game are just getting ridiculous, plus DVD-Rs would be even cheaper for endusers as well.

[tjr1973]

Just got my PCGamer in the mail this morning and I can't wait for this game. According to ID the X800 series and the 6800's will both run the game in ARB2 rendering path which is "total package" graphic wise. It sounds like this game is going to look good on all the supported video cards and run decent as well. ID didn't give an example of a high end PC recommendation but PC Gamer said a 3.4 P4 or AMD equivalent, 6800 or X800XT graphics card and 2 Gigs of Ram. Other than the fact I'm only running an X800Pro, I should be able to run everything on max.

[OC-Master]

I will not be pre-ordering this game. I pre-ordered for the first and last time with UT2004, didn't get it until a week after it was released. No sir, I'll be pushing and shoving little old ladies and small children at the local Best Buy to get this game ON the release date.

It also says that the game will be at some stores on the 3rd. Anyone know if it's coming out on 1 DVD or 12 CD's or what?


The game is on 5 CD's or 1 DVD Disc. 5GB of hard drive space give or take a couple megs.


OC-Master

[funnyperson1]

The minimum system requirements that were posted by PC Gamer are crazy.

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space

I bet the recommended system requirements would be something like a 4GHz Pentium4 or an Athlon64 FX-57 with 1GB of ram with an X800 XT or GF6 6800U


OC-Master

Lets see, I have an Athlon XP overclocked to 2.05GHZ
I have 512mb of ram
I have a Radeon 8500

I AM the minimum requirement for Doom III :p

[Lord_Zoltan]

Lets see, I have an Athlon XP overclocked to 2.05GHZ
I have 512mb of ram
I have a Radeon 8500

I AM the minimum requirement for Doom III :p

Most of us are, and i think thats pretty damn scary how we areonly meeting minimum requirements.

[hatkeeper]

u could use a better graphics card like radeon 9500 and crack it to 9700

[Flashfx2]

That seems awful high for minimum requirements, that might be closer to a recommended requirement. Far Cry's minimum is 1 ghz, and Doom 3 doesn't look THAT much better then Far Cry.

[Hardin]

Doom (http://www.ua-corp.com/) will be upon us all.

[Flashfx2]

Doom (http://www.ua-corp.com/) will be upon us all.
That's my desktop :cool: :burn:

[Oni]

The minimum system requirements [snip]

AMD AthlonXP 2GHz+ or Intel Pentium4 2GHz+
512MB of Ram
GeForce4 MX or Radeon 8500 or better
5GB Hard Drive Space



My Barton will be at 2500Mhz by the time of release
I have 1GB of PC3200 in DC
I have a Radeon 9700 Pro
I have a 120GB HD ready to accept Doom III into it's life.

I'm ready. Bring on the demons! :D

[KfistoRok]

:eh?: Where did you come up with that?

"The game will ship on either three or four CDs."

From link above.

Misread something. My bad. :bang head

[Drec]

My Barton will be at 2500Mhz by the time of release
I have 1GB of PC3200 in DC
I have a Radeon 9700 Pro
I have a 120GB HD ready to accept Doom III into it's life.

I'm ready. Bring on the demons! :D

ditto to that..except ill have a 9800p
:attn:

[tjr1973]

Minimum specs aren't a 2.0 with 512 Ram...they're 1.5 CPU with 384 Ram and a GeForce 4MX series or better graphics card.

[pcgirl]

Minimum specs aren't a 2.0 with 512 Ram...they're 1.5 CPU with 384 Ram and a GeForce 4MX series or better graphics card.

That's what I read as well (min 1.5ghz CPU). Not too bad. :)

[Oni]

pc girl! Long time no see! :)

[Flashfx2]

The doom3.com site has been updated. The only thing completely new that I noticed on the site is they have a mp3 of the intro to doom 3. It's only about 20 seconds long but at least it is something.

[nafdaos]

Can you link me to the site with the video please? Thank you

[Oni]

www.doom3.com

My friend F4 and I were discussing the music clip, and we both think it sounds like Nine Inch Nails. Maybe Trent Reznor picked the project back up? :)

[9mmCensor]

www.doom3.com

My friend F4 and I were discussing the music clip, and we both think it sounds like Nine Inch Nails. Maybe Trent Reznor picked the project back up? :)
Please... please let this be true, but... even if it is not, I am sure it will still kick ass.

[ninthebin]

I dunno, the beginning sort of reminds me of the cure for some reason (no im not saying its done by them, just listen to the cure - burn, its got that sort of feel to it) - but the rock bit sounds a bit too poppy american stuff, trent has always had this sort of rougher edge.

plus wasnt the last news we heard that it was left to late and reznor was already moving onto other projects ? - if it is him, I dont think hes put too much of himself into it and I hope other tracks will own.

[Muffinn]

The guys from TOOL did the sound and intro music. Trent dropped the project when he beggan to get impatient with how long the game production process was taking.

[Lummoxx]

AMD 2400 (2 GHz), GeForce Ti4600, and a gig of PC 2700 (I know, I'm soooo yesterday), sounds like I should have above average performance. Maybe not excellent, but I can live with above average for now. It's either that, or shoplift....and I'm not dumb enough to shoplift. :)