*Official* DOOM3 System Req.s/Rec.s

cruc1fy

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• Jul 21, 2004

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From Todd Hollenshead (idSoftware CEO)

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.

To get the most out of the game, a 3GHz P4 or Athlon equivalent, 512MB to 1GB RAM, and Geforce 6800 FX/ATI 9800 or better would be ideal.

 

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Dracknem

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• Jul 21, 2004

• #2

Cool, my system might just make it in medium settings.

AMD 2200+
768 MB PC 2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro

I can't wait until this game is out.

 

MuEagle05

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• Jul 21, 2004

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I'd recommend at least a 2.5Ghz processor, a gig of RAM, and at least the 9800Pro to really give the graphics their credit.

 

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• Jul 21, 2004

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This is the first game I've heard of that reccomends 1 GB of RAM for optimal performance.

 

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• Jul 21, 2004

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FarCry recommends "512-1024MB"

As quoted from:
http://www.farcry.ubi.com/system.php

 

DMac

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Really? I upgraded to a gig a couple months ago, thinking I would ge good for a long time. Yeah.

 

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Dracknem

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• Jul 21, 2004

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I wish I could get a 2.5 GHZ, but my current mobo only lets me run up to 2200+. And I don't have any money. I might get a 512 stick of RAM and take out a 256 to run a gig.

 

CircuitBreaker8

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Sweet, I hope I can play this game at high details with no AA at 1024x768

 

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Dracknem

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Look at this for actual Doom III benchmarks.

http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030512/geforce_fx_5900-11.html

 

DMac

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Yeah I guess we'll need it for HL2 and Doom 3. Yeah this isn't the cheapest of hobbies is it?

 

CircuitBreaker8

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Wow, the FX totaly stomps on the 9800p = (

Oh well, its not touching my 480/760 9800p

 

theELVISCERATOR

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• Jul 21, 2004

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CircuitBreaker8 said:

Wow, the FX totaly stomps on the 9800p = (

Oh well, its not touching my 480/760 9800p

Click to expand...

not really thats at medium settings dude..


http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030512/images/image065.gif

 

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HungryForHertz

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• Jul 21, 2004

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So basically it's balls to the '512Mb recccomended for ultra quality use' theory then? An X800XT would be enough it seems.

 

CircuitBreaker8

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theELVISCERATOR said:

not really thats at medium settings dude..


http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030512/images/image065.gif

Click to expand...

look what happens when you use FSAA

 

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• Jul 21, 2004

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i cant wait for doom 3 to come out

 

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Hopefully I'll be able to get an X800 by then, if not then my 9800np is going to have to handle it at 1024x768.

 

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• Jul 21, 2004

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That Tom's hardware review was the middle of last year... At that time, iD was letting the FX5900 use a special "NV30" (half-precision) rendering path while the ATI card was running the "ARB2" (full precision) rendering path.

Since that date, Carmack has removed the NV30 rendering path and forced all the DX9 cards to run in ARB2 mode. As such, I very much expect those FX5900 numbers to be significantly lower than that benchmark shows, for very obvious reasons.

 

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Those benchmarks are better than I would have thought.
It looks like I could even pull some AA at 1024x768 with my 9700pro

 

gingo

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Hopefully there isn't much of a difference between a 2.2 and a 2.5 Ghz CPU in terms of this games performance. I'm thinking as long as you got a 2Ghz CPU paired with a high end vid card you should be good to go. But dont forget the RAM of course.

 

YellowDart

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• Jul 21, 2004

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Yea, I'd take those benches with several grains of salt. Those benches are over a year old and probably done w/ the E3 demo from 2003. Definitely not finished optimized D3. Given Albequerque's statement, I'd also expect the real 5900 benches to be significantly lower too.