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Stanley Pain
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Having installed Doom 3 earlier today, I've been playing it for the better portion of the day 
. I have it set to the hardest difficulty (Vetren I think, because Nightmare wasn't available ).
First thing I have to say is that I'm VERY impressed with how this runs on my system (see specs below). I'm running doom3 @ 1024x768, high quality settings, 4xAF. I very rarely notice any significant FPS drop (I'm not bothering to run FRAPS because then I'd just keep my eyes glued on the FPS counter and not enjoy the game).
So far the action has been pretty damn intense, and the graphics just absolutley jaw dropping. The animation of the characters are very fluid, and the effects drool worthy. Story line seems pretty decent so far (nothing spectacular, but did you expect much from a doom game? ).
The sound, ambience and atmosphere is down right freaky. Playing on both a 5.1 system as well as some headphones this game will have you looking around thinking something is breathing down your neck. My only gripe is that if I use my onboard sound (SoundStorm, optical out to receiver) the sound gets crackly/garbled after a while. This doesn't happen if I use the Revo for sound output.
On a side note, I wanted to see how CPU bound this game is on my system. I downclocked my system to 2.0Ghz (200x10) and gave it a go. Much to my surprise I didn't really notice a difference. There where just a couple of places where it stuttered a bit (lots of texture loading would be my guess).
In any case, well worth the purchase. Remind me to thank my buddy @ Best Buy
. I have it set to the hardest difficulty (Vetren I think, because Nightmare wasn't available ).First thing I have to say is that I'm VERY impressed with how this runs on my system (see specs below). I'm running doom3 @ 1024x768, high quality settings, 4xAF. I very rarely notice any significant FPS drop (I'm not bothering to run FRAPS because then I'd just keep my eyes glued on the FPS counter and not enjoy the game).
So far the action has been pretty damn intense, and the graphics just absolutley jaw dropping. The animation of the characters are very fluid, and the effects drool worthy. Story line seems pretty decent so far (nothing spectacular, but did you expect much from a doom game?
).The sound, ambience and atmosphere is down right freaky. Playing on both a 5.1 system as well as some headphones this game will have you looking around thinking something is breathing down your neck. My only gripe is that if I use my onboard sound (SoundStorm, optical out to receiver) the sound gets crackly/garbled after a while. This doesn't happen if I use the Revo for sound output.
On a side note, I wanted to see how CPU bound this game is on my system. I downclocked my system to 2.0Ghz (200x10) and gave it a go. Much to my surprise I didn't really notice a difference. There where just a couple of places where it stuttered a bit (lots of texture loading would be my guess).
In any case, well worth the purchase. Remind me to thank my buddy @ Best Buy
