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Can my system run Doom3?

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cuber

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I know the game is not out yet... but i was just wondering about your guys opinion.
Do you guys think that my sig will be able to run doom 3 at 1024 reso and medium settings? will i get at least 35fps? thanks
 
I ran a beta of D3 on my old system (2.4b @ 3.3Ghz w/9600xt non-overclocked) and it ran "OK" @1024x768 and some of the options either disabled or toned down a bit. There were some spots were FPS dropped to the teens though. But I've oc'd the hell outta my 9600xt now and haven't tried playing it again with my new 2.8c @ 3.78Ghz. Might be another story.

The only way to tell is to try it when it comes out.
 
Sapphire 9600XT (650core/745ddr w/Vmem, VGpu, hsf, and LM63 mods)
wow... that is one hell of a oc :)
 
cuber said:
Sapphire 9600XT (650core/745ddr w/Vmem, VGpu, hsf, and LM63 mods)
wow... that is one hell of a oc :)
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Thanks. I get comments on it quite a bit. Still not as fast as a stock 9800 though :rolleyes:

Don't have the money for a 9800 or better either right now. I'm actually kinda disappointed that I can't get more from it though...I was hoping I would get 680-700Mhz out of it :p
 
it will work better than some peoples...but the fact that the 9600/Pro/XT cards all are 4-pipeline cores means that in most situations....the 9700/pro/9800/pro/xt cards (8-pipelines) are able to crank out double the pixels per clock. And so even a modest OC on a R3xx based core is going to scale fps wise faster than a RV3xx based core.

I say- see if u can get some money out of that 9600xt (ebay -or buy/sell/trade forums) and if u can get around $110-120 (especially with the way it OCs people should pay well for it) and then save another $70 or so and get yourself a 9800Pro 128MB and OC it like crazy and youll be in a bit better position for not much cash.
 
Yes, your system will be fine. In my PCGAMER mag it listed the 9500pro/1500xp as a mid system. A gf4mx will run the game and still look real nice according to the mag.
 
creedAMD said:
Yes, your system will be fine. In my PCGAMER mag it listed the 9500pro/1500xp as a mid system. A gf4mx will run the game and still look real nice according to the mag.
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Is that the July edition that has D3 information?
 
creedAMD said:
Yes, your system will be fine. In my PCGAMER mag it listed the 9500pro/1500xp as a mid system. A gf4mx will run the game and still look real nice according to the mag.
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well the 9500Pro is a R3xx based card...it has 8-pipelines like I just described- but i will agree that if left unOCd the 9600xt is faster....but not if you OC the 9500pro though...

That and i forgot to mention that the 9700pro and 9800or/xt have 256-bit memory busses which I believe the 9600XT does not.
 
COCOViper said:
those benches are over a year old from a leaked alpha build....i wouldnt personally put any weight on them until I saw a Gold version of the game benched.
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First off, those benchmarks are from a build of DOOM3 supplied to us directly by id Software and a demo supplied by id Software. There was hardly anything about them "leaked".

That said, I would not put any trust in them whatsoever. I think we said this back then as well. :)
 
I very much doubt that any maintream game would have requirements so high that 90% of the people out there would not have a good gaming experience without upgrading.

It simply does not make sense.

The bottom 20-30%... sure... they probably can't play too much of anything modern anyways.

For the "ultimate" experience, you will (of course) require the ultimate hardware... that is how it has always been, and will always be.

So, having not played the game, I would say, "of course! your system looks just fine". But, that is just a logical argument. I can tell you, if I am wrong, you are going to have a SHITLOAD of unhappy custmers on August 5th... because most of the population does not have a system as good as yours!

-Skystalker
 
GOD can we just wait till this game comes out, all ive seen are CAN MY COMP RUN DOOM3 threads since it went "gold", lets just see august 3rd and compare -- then well let you know
 
tylerhskate said:
GOD can we just wait till this game comes out, all ive seen are CAN MY COMP RUN DOOM3 threads since it went "gold", lets just see august 3rd and compare -- then well let you know
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IAWTP!!!
 
Why dont you ask ID software they are the only ones that have played the final product.
 
that article should end all debates about "can my computer run doom3"

id say if you have 2ghz+ 512ram and a 9600pro or better video card (ati or nvida) you can run the game just fine (prolly similary to how far cry runs on your system). Of course 2.4ghz or 3ghz will help, 1gig of ram will help, 256 video ram just makes textures look slightly better (and not even all of them)

everyone stop freaking out :)
 
Other interesting notes:

-all sound is processed through the CPU, so all sound cards sound the same and produce the same system load.

-Doom3 is GPU dependant for the most part, not cpu dependent

-nothing extra for 64bit users
 
FragMagnet said:
Other interesting notes:

-all sound is processed through the CPU, so all sound cards sound the same and produce the same system load.

-Doom3 is GPU dependant for the most part, not cpu dependent

-nothing extra for 64bit users
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I find it kinda silly that there doing that, christ there are more advanced options but what the hell, if it works it works. Guess they wanted a graphics engine, not a sound engine.
 
FragMagnet said:
Other interesting notes:

-all sound is processed through the CPU, so all sound cards sound the same and produce the same system load.
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well an identical sound will be sent to the soundcards DACs and output buffers....but from there the nicer quality cards will output better sounding audio- it will just be the same when it comes to 3d postional and effects---but when it comes to better overal sound quality (Signal-to-Noise ratio) nicer cards still have the upper hand.
 
COCOViper said:
well an identical sound will be sent to the soundcards DACs and output buffers....but from there the nicer quality cards will output better sounding audio- it will just be the same when it comes to 3d postional and effects---but when it comes to better overal sound quality (Signal-to-Noise ratio) nicer cards still have the upper hand.
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I agree, but not being able to offload the work to the sound card kind of sucks. They also said it will be running on a seperate "thread", I wonder if Intels HT, or dual cpu's will get a boost from this ? Though they claim the sound load is minor, Q3 was one of the few games that show a perf. increase from Dual Cpu's.
 
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