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Full text here:   http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/t.../weekly/2690450 (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/weekly/2690450)

God damnit. Life sucks for me from this point on. :(

Smae here :( . Here's my machine:

.Pentium III 933 Mhz
.Soundblaster AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM)
.QDI GeForce MX 440
.ADSL Alcatel Modem
.386 RAM Memory

I still have my 1st pc :D It's a 386 with win 3.1 . Playing Wolf3D for the 10th time...

dont wurry guys , I played quake 3 rtcw and sof2 on a pentium 200mhz
and I got a good average framerate  of 2 to 17 FPS ( not that when there where a couple of explosions I would start leaning very hard to the 2 FPS.

And that's a good average framerate? I'm having some problems with my pc right now and my average framerate with all of those games is 40,50 fps! I play Halo and CoD with that framerate and it's bad.

( sarcasm ) altough I have to say that I could get more kills in sof2 back then then I can now .

Yeah I have a frickin 800MHz Duron, but I have 512MB RAM and a GeForce2 Ti so it runs decent... but still I am not gonna be able to run Doom3 worth a shit.  I guess its finally time to upgrade.

If any of you havn't gotten the new PC Gamer yet I suggest you grab a copy there is a great reveiw in there for Doom3 and a section where they go through system requirements in detail.

Get rid of the Graphic card and the processor. Buy a 3Ghz or a 2.8Ghz processor. And a GeForce FX 5700 or a ATI Radeon 9600XT. Of course that this is my opinion.

I am 100 MHz short and one generation of graphic cards behind.  I'm sure I still will be able to get DOOM 3 to run, but I wonder what I will have to sacrifice to get it to.  Hopefully a demo will be forthcoming before the game is released :p

I hope so. That way we can take a first look before buying it.

A demo is forthcoming, but no release date yet.  I'm going to wait for that to see if I can run it worth a damn.  The Alpha didn't give me much hope, but then again that WAS an Alpha.

if you do get a new processor , get an AMD 64 bit processor , I know I would .

It's a good suggestion. BUT maybye we should wait for the 64bit windows so that 64bit processors technology evolve.

linux :p

I have A P4 2ghz 768 megs of ram and a Radeon 9700 pro. I think im looking good for doom 3 but of course we wont really know till the game comes out.

I just thought I'd pass along some news I found out about at Slashdot.  id released their benchmark information to Hard OCP, and they have an article up about it now.  http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy (http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy)  It pretty much confirms that if you meet the minimum system requirements, you'll have an enjoyable gaming experience.  It doesn't mention anything about older cards though.   :(

I'm running:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+, system bus OC'd to 139 Mhz (Damn you, locked CPU!!)
512 megs PC2100 RAM
Chaintech GeForce TI4600 with 128 megs RAM

I think I'm adequate to run Doom 3.  My dream system:

AMD Athlon 64 FX-53, 1MB L2 Cache, 2.4 GHz CPU
Asus motherboard capable of supporting at least two PCI Express slots
2 GB CORSAIR XMS DDR PC-3200 (has the LED's on it)
2X nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCE in SLI

Of course, that's ridiculously expensive and something I'm not ever going to have, but I'd love to play Doom 3 on it.  As an update, [H]ardOCP has posted a nice collaborative review with Id Software.  If you want to see which card is king in regards to Doom 3, and how your system will stack up, here's the place to look:

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy (http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy)

Enjoy!

pho , forget about that geforce 6800 , forget about a radeon card either .
go with wildcat


it has a 512 bit processor , 3 GPUs ,512 mb DD3 , bandwith of 64 gigh , proce of the card , 2280 euro .

http://www.3dlabs.com/products/product.asp?prod=293 (http://www.3dlabs.com/products/product.asp?prod=293)

Looks great on paper, and I'm sure it's wicked sick for industrial use, but CAN IT RUN DOOM 3?  If it's incompatible that would be an awful waste of currency.

I think so. Your computer looks good to play DooM3. If you want to make an update, Buy a new CPU.

BTW the answer to the topic question: badly...

I fear my ti4200 will hold me back.  Gonna wait on the demo here.

Edited again cause it looks like Phoenix beat me to the link long ago.

I exspect I will be able to run D3 but am going to wait for the demo. If its too scary I don't need the stress at the moment.

check here...http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/026-7112697-1891632

This says windows XP!

does this mean I need to go to XP? I will not.

look here.... (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/videogames/B000067NYP/system-requirements/ref=ed_tec_dp/026-7112697-1891632)

I'm going to stick with halflife2.

It will run on Windows 2000.

:shifty: T_T ... yeiii?
C'mon how many people uses Windoews 2000? And why doesn't it run on NT? XP is only an improvement of Windows NT.

btw , you can always make your own super 3d card .

http://www.lamerkatz.com/stories/images/bitchin.jpg (http://www.lamerkatz.com/stories/images/bitchin.jpg)

srry for the big pic , I only really noticed it when it stood in my post when i saw the real size of the pic .

Windows 2000 is also an improvement on NT.  XP is just 2000 with more out-of-the-box annoyances.  As for who uses Windows 2000... *I* use Windows 2000!  I used to use 98 until just last year.  I don't know about everyone else, but I despise having to change OS's every two FREAKING YEARS just because Microsoft thinks people need to pay them more money!!!

But it will run Doom 3, and that's what matters.

Oh are we posting specs here? I think I'm all right for Doom 3.

Barton 2500+ running with a 200 Mhz FSB (At 3200+ speed)
1 gig of PC2700, running in that dual channel thing
Radeon 9800xt

The initial plan is to do 1024*768 at High Quality, and if it's running at a high enough fps, I might bump it to 1280, but who knows.

Also, I use Windows 2000, too.

I have never used 2000, but might if you tell me it works with games ok. as I know nothing about it really. (I used M.E. on 3 comps, and norton ghost, so I've ever really considered changing when things go wrong, just ghosted back.)

I ran 2000 Server for years, and it worked great for games

I ran them all exept millenium
if you leave your system up then millenium will crash average after 1.5 days .

and i should start trying linux 1 of these days
and i mean soon , very soon .
need to reinstall anyway .

It works fine for most games.  Some older games like Blood, Descent don't, but there are worka rounds that let you.  You can usually tell if you will have problems or not by seeing if the game requires DOS, which the NT kernel does not have.  DOS Doom doesn't work, but Doom for Win 95 (and all the ports you will be running anyway) do.  DOS Quake does not, but patch it and it will.
And hey, if you have a huge HDD anyway,  make it a dual boot system. ;)

Still using 2k here too. I even made a test-system, to see if upgrading to XP was worth the hassle. It wasn't. I'm not switching just for more dual-monitor options and Teletubbie colors. Games work better on 2k, if you don't know how to fix mouse accel, too.

I don't think games work better on 2K or XP - I've had the same performance.  That said, I don't think there is a reason to upgrade to XP if you like 2K.  However, there is a huge reason to upgrade to 2K if you're still using 98 or especially ME.
Does anyone remember Bob? :p

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1)

DOS may be "dead", but DOS games are not.

DOS IS NOT DEAD!! I still have my shitty ME comp which I use to play Wolf, DN3D and various other games that XP hasn't a snowball's chance in Hell of running.

Q2 anyone ...?

Tab: I got shot of my Teletubby XP colours a LOOOONNNGGG time ago! I advise my fellow XP mugs to do the same!

Aye, I shot it too, on that test setup. But I don't see the bonus value of it :]
Actually, running a Mac style has some benefits, though ;]

I play DOS DooM with no problem. BUt I usually play DooM with JDooM.