Doom 3

[Penguin]

Well I just got done playing some D3. I played for an hour or two and my cpu runs it like crap. At some points the FPS was so horrible it just made me want to quit. I had it on 640x480 on lowest settings and it was alright in 60% of the places, but the other 40% it was pretty choppy and bad. My specs are 2.0 p4, 512 ram, geforce 4 ti 4800. I thought I could at least get medium quality since thats what it suggested I could do but its still bad. The game itself was overhyped in my opinon, its a pretty fun game, and it is scary at times (esp on the harder difficulty rattings). Example would be in a dark room I double checked to be clear, I go up the stairs half way only to have some devil creature burst out of the stairs/cement right in front of me o_O . Anyway, it feels like a regular shooter except for the graphics and maybe the physics engine. I dont like how when you kill a monster it disengrates right in front of you, leaving no corpse to play with :( . The story itself is pretty good from what I have seen so far, it has mildly drawn me in. The gameplay is hmm standard shoot em up with the scare factor built in. I have not tried multiplayer but I have heard its not that good either. This is more of a first impression / what I think so far. After 2 houres, I dont know if I will even finish it or go back in but thats because I hate the fps I am getting. Anyway, anyone else who has played it so far; share your thoughts.

[Sovereign]

Oh shit, I'm fucked...

I have a 64 mb vid card. Oh well. I already paid for it. I'll make best of what I can :weird:



:cry: Damn the complexity of it all!!

[iceman887]

i'm probably not gonna get it, my computer might run it a little better since it is like a 2.1-2.2 and i have a 9600 pro, it cost too much for me to get anyways, 55 dollars geez

[tokill.ace]

D3 is the best game it gets runs fine on my computer

[Demosthenes]

My computer won't run it. I'm going to wait until it comes out for Xbox.

[Medieval Bob]

Reserved it today at Gamestop. I got my pewter Baron of Hell with it too, pwn.

[Kidagakash]

My specs are 2.0 p4, 512 ram, geforce 4 ti 4800

512mb of ram isent that much, if you look at it, (ausmeing you running XP) by the time its started up and shit, you already are using about 100 to 125mb of that ram witch leaves you with a meer 400 give or take a few mb. or so ram to run games on. when i game says "i need 512mb of ram Minimum!" then it need that amout of ram, just because you have 512 dosent mean the game is using all of it. and the second anything switches too your vram, (uses hardrive space) shit slows down alot! now if ya had... say 1gb of ram, then it sould be more then enough ram to handle the games ram req..

now since i barely know what im talking about im going to shut up, i will review the game once i done downloading it.... till then, sit tight...
*waves*

[iceman887]

from your profile computer specs i dont think u will beable to play it

[Penguin]

Well I downloaded new drivers for my vid card and now its bearable at medium settings and its more fun =]

[Kidagakash]

me profile is outa date.
i sould update it. hehe
new CPU 2.4ghz - GPU Ati 9800 pro 128 - new ram 1.3gig (1gig useable as the .3 is taken by system and other things running)
updateing profile now.

[Chruser]

Well, this should be interesting.

1.4 GHz, 256 MB ram, GeForce 2 MX-400 (32 mb). It runs Far Cry. Care to guess whether or not it will even start Doom 3? :)

[zeal311]

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.6ghz. 512 MB ram. 128mb radeon 9600xt. I damn well better be able to play this game or heads will roll.

[Hades-Knight]

you rich people!

I got 700Mhz , 350 MB RAM, *built-in* video =/

and

1.6ghz , 256MB RAM, TNT2 video =(

I havent been able to play new games since like 2001 =(

[zeal311]

Just bought it and it runs decent on medium quality. Choppy at times but overall pretty smooth. This game is scary as a bitch though.

[Sovereign]

Installing.....

^_^

[Sovereign]

Don't even try. I'm running on 64 megs. IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS!!! Its choppy nearly 24/7, but nowhere near the point that it would get annoying. THe only time I lagged was when 3 zombies, out of nowhere, decided to jump me. Shortly after their heads were plastered ala shotgun shells to the wall. Holy fuck. I agree with zeal. This game is pretty scary. Much of it is anticipation as well. Those corners can yield many suprises...

Alas, lag was my doom. Out of nowhere, from a place I had just cleaned out, a zombie attacked me from behind. The one second lag was enough for him to deal the fatal blow. The death scene is pretty cool, how it just fades out.

Just...wow..

[iceman887]

o i have the same birthdate as Kidagakash, weird now i know like 4 or 5 people with the same birthday but on topic, did u buy it for 55 dollars?

[Sovereign]

Sorta. I spent only 40 in cash. THe rest were traded in used games.

[RoboticSilence]

I think the minimum bearable CPU speed recommended was 1.7 Ghz.

[undeadzombieguy]

I think it was 1.5 ghz

anyway, I just played this game and even though its at 640x480 with lowest quality, it still looked great! The suspense is awesome I really like the way they scare you with all those monster just appearing out of nowhere and then when your screen suddenly turns red, and well I'm not going to spoil it. ;) GG

[WetWired]

Yeah, that was part of the first ones, too; there were always monsters appearing from portals when you'd enter certain rooms.

[Sovereign]

Works decently on a 1.5 ghz pent M

[Dr. Geekstar]

I think the minimum bearable CPU speed recommended was 1.7 Ghz.

i just got doom III in lan-party
i copied from some1 with 1.7Ghz and he played with all graphics maxed xcept for resolution (was playing at 600x480 :grin: )

it doesnt run too well on my comp, i only have 256 RAM, so i play at 800x600 with most of the options on

[Kidagakash]

****Contains Gameplay Spoiler****
Well i said id be back once i played it.
so here i am, the game runs perfitly fine on my system with med settings.

i dident buy the game, i downloaded it, (some ppl may think im lame for this) but oh well, here in Canada - the game costs 80$ with tax, 80$ i dont have so. i DL games, anyway....

Doom3 is scarry as %#&$ , like omg! had me jump and or screem a few times.
like when you enter the bathroom for the second time (after everything goes wrong) and the screen goes red and you see yourself all weard looking...

*crys* this game = too scarey, i can barely play it cues of the scare factor.

[Dr. Geekstar]

*crys* this game = too scarey, i can barely play it cues of the scare factor.

for some reason it doesnt scare me a bit when i turn sound off

its the same as with movies, when i turn sound off no horror movie scares me anymore... but only sound is even worse then both see and hear it... weeeeeeeird

edit: try the spoiler tags ;)

[Sovereign]

YOU FOOL.

You do NOT play doom 3 with the sounds off. Or with your lights on... or with your door open for that matter.

[Dr. Geekstar]

YOU FOOL.

You do NOT play doom 3 with the sounds off. Or with your lights on... or with your door open for that matter.

when my door is open it makes scary sounds.... makes me feel like someone is watching me from there

[Sovereign]

Bah that's the pt.

ALso, the bfg = pwnage.

[uncapped]

I've been playing it since August 1st, and have beat it on the two most difficult settings. The game is scary as shit. Even when you know that some monster is gonna come at you the second you open the door, you still jump back when it happens. I love it.

At 1280x1024 with High Settings, and 6.1 EAX Surround Sound, it looks fucking and sounds amazing.

But I still like Farcry better.

[iceman887]

wow you beat it twice on the two most difficult already!! wtf!!! geez you are a good gamer!!!!

[Medieval Bob]

Doom 3 owns me.

Man I want a fucking helmet with a flashlight on it. Fuck! I can't see anything!

[Silverjinx18]

He said it scarred him :(

[Dr. Geekstar]

Doom 3 owns me.

Man I want a fucking helmet with a flashlight on it. Fuck! I can't see anything!


yeah, its fucking annoying when you see a monster with your flash and dont have time to swap weapons... *bash* *bash* *bash* *die* *game over*

[Medieval Bob]

I think it adds excitement. No time to play yet really... Got a program due in a couple of hours that I gotta work on after work.

Oh well...

[Sovereign]

Wow you must be slow.... You can hear a lot of the guys coming, and screeching and whatnot..

All it takes is hitting the f key again to bring up your weapon. I've had no hard time with taht even when my comp lags it up.

[Chruser]

Hahaha, the fucker runs. They just didn't test the game on a system crappy enough. ;)

1.4 ghz = above minimum.
256 mb ram = below minimum (384 mb)
geforce 2 mx-400 (32 mb) = FAR below minimum, especially since it's a MX card (64 mb)

Well, I have to play with lowest settings, and two parts of the game lag like hell. Loading a new level takes 2-3 minutes, and opening a door takes roughly 5 seconds, but otherwise, it's playable.

[Medieval Bob]

Man this game is fucking awesome.

The part where you walk back into the bathroom after shit starts going down scared the FUCK out of me (as well as any number of times when the lights flicker out and 2+ monsters come after you). Awesome game.

[Kidagakash]

well, i just came outa hell with the soul cube.
the game rarely scares me anymore. as its all the same thing now,
*Lights go out* monster spawn blah blah blah :-/
there is one anoying thing thou, when 3 monsters spawn in front and 1 spawn behind that you dont know of.

so let this be a warning, whenever somthing spawns in front of you,
turn around and look behinde you.

oh, and about them little monsters, the babby moth body things, look like little kids with moth bodies, by god, how twisted is that.

anyway break time from doom, need to rest my eyes :-P

[Sovereign]

When do you run into a hell knight. Gotta wait till hell? I wanna test the bfg onem.

[Kidagakash]

When do you run into a hell knight. Gotta wait till hell? I wanna test the bfg onem.

is the hell knight umm.. from the old doom games, what did he do?
i dont know names too well, i know IMP thats it, cues i run into them the most.

wait, if im right, you run into 2 hell knights just before you get ported to hell.

[Sovereign]

http://www.nofrag.com/screenshots/actualite/2003-10-12_d3hl2.jpg

THe ugly fucker on the left.

[Kidagakash]

http://www.nofrag.com/screenshots/actualite/2003-10-12_d3hl2.jpg

THe ugly fucker on the left.

a see a red x :-/

[Chruser]

Copy and paste the link.

http://www.nofrag.com/screenshots/actualite/2003-10-12_d3hl2.jpg

The bathroom scene didn't scare me that much. I think I had my mind elsewhere at that moment. Some imp jumped at me as soon as I opened a door, which was worse. And not to mention when I walked up to a dead guard on a table, and he woke up. The latter sounds obvious, and my mind was thinking "Hey, this guy is probably must obviously be a zomb..." JUST as he woke up and jumped at me, kind of like that imp. That scared the HELL out of me for some reason.

[Kidagakash]

[QUOTE=Chruser]Copy and paste the link.

http://www.nofrag.com/screenshots/actualite/2003-10-12_d3hl2.jpg
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well, anyway, i beat it today, (joyfull) last boss is the easyest IMO.
5 hits with the soul cube and hes dead. hes huge thou, like MASSIVE!!!
hardest of the bosses, is this IMO the Guardian, just cues it laged alot on my comp :-P

anyway, joyfullness. i win, it loses. game over *Un-install*

[NonGayMan]

Doom 3 is scary. :killgrin:

Want to tweak around a bit to get it to look better? Go here.

http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FPSVisuals.htm EDIT: I never made an autoexec.cfg folder, but I've been told that it makes the game run somewhat smoother. Unzipping the files from the pak file and deleting the pak files supposedly do too, virtually making the load times longer. However, it has been reported it does indeed make the game run somewhat smoother. Multiplayer does not work if you delete them, though. I assume you can always just create backups of these files if you want to try.

It is a essential for you to tweak around with image_useCache,
image_cacheMegs, and image_cacheMinK. The game runs so much smoother when you do.

Currently, I only have a 128 mb video card which runs the game perfectly on high settings at 1024 x 768, but I plan on getting a 256 mb video card as soon as possible. Your processor should be up-to-date as well.

[NonGayMan]

Having trouble seeing? Download the flashlight pistol mod: http://dlx.gamespot.com/pc/doom3/moreinfo_6104168.html

Subjectively, I have not yet tried this out. What I recommend trying if you do know wish to use this is to try setting the flashlight bind key to F or some other close key so you can easily switch between your flashlight and your previously used weapon. Works like a charm.

[Hades-Knight]

Doom 3 is scary. :killgrin:

Want to tweak around a bit to get it to look better? Go here.

http://ucguides.savagehelp.com/Doom3/FPSVisuals.htm EDIT: I never made an autoexec.cfg folder, but I've been told that it makes the game run somewhat smoother. Unzipping the files from the pak file and deleting the pak files supposedly do too, virtually making the load times longer. However, it has been reported it does indeed make the game run somewhat smoother. Multiplayer does not work if you delete them, though. I assume you can always just create backups of these files if you want to try.

It is a essential for you to tweak around with image_useCache,
image_cacheMegs, and image_cacheMinK. The game runs so much smoother when you do.

Currently, I only have a 128 mb video card which runs the game perfectly on high settings at 1024 x 768, but I plan on getting a 256 mb video card as soon as possible. Your processor should be up-to-date as well.

what are u gonna do with ur olde card?

[NonGayMan]

what are u gonna do with ur olde card?

Actually, I'll only be updating my ATI Radeon 9800 from 128mb to 256mb.

[Hades-Knight]

Actually, I'll only be updating my ATI Radeon 9800 from 128mb to 256mb.


Can you upgrade the ram ON the card?

DO you ahve any vidoe cards laying around? like a geforce 2 or something?

[uncapped]

Knight-Rider, stop begging. There's nothing worse then collecting pity on a message board.

[Dr. Geekstar]

Knight-Rider, stop begging. There's nothing worse then collecting pity on a message board.

who the fuck is knight-rider :rolleyes:

[NonGayMan]

who the fuck is knight-rider :rolleyes:

Hades-Knight.

[WetWired]

WTF? Not only am I forced to give away my personal info to get that download but it want's me to install some BS program before I can DL it? Fuck you.

[Kidagakash]

try setting the flashlight bind key to F or some other close key so you can easily switch between your flashlight and your previously used weapon. Works like a charm.

ummm.. i beleave the default keys already do that.
at least mine did, hit "F" light comes out, hit "F" again gun comes back, joyfull! (Best weapon in game = soul cube! owned!)

i have a few video cards in my living room. on a table, i think one is a PCI G-force2mx 256 - one is an AGP Gforce2 MX 32meg and another new Gforce sowmwhere, not sure if it still works, oh, and hey! i found a stick of 128megs of ram the other day when i was looking for a CD. Joyfull! *waves*

[NonGayMan]

WTF? Not only am I forced to give away my personal info to get that download but it want's me to install some BS program before I can DL it? Fuck you.

I'm sure you can download it elsewhere. Sorry. That was the site that I clicked when I used google.

[Mantralord]

You need surround sound to enjoy the game fully. I have 5.1 headphones.

I don't have a problem with framerates...my Geforce 6800 runs it pretty fast at 1024x768 with 8x AA and 8x AF :p.

As for the choppiness, that's a hard drive related issue. To fix it, go into the Doom 3\base folder, and open each .pk4 file with WinRAR, and extract them into the base folder. Then delete all the pk4 files. You'd easily gain 10 fps on the game because now the cpu doesn't have to decompress the game files every time a monster pops up. Be warned though, decompressing them makes the game take up about 4 gb of space.

[insanity_420]

ok hopefully someone can help me i just bought doom today and singleplayer runs perfectly i was playin it for about 3 hours. Then i go to get on multiplayer and i cant do anything. Like i cant move my guy i can move him forward and he like floats back to where he started i got a p4 1.7 ghz processor 3x 256 mb ram and a radeon 128 mb video card. I play diablo 2 and warcraft 3 tft online all the time and never have any problems please help me i wanna go slaughter some people